Thermodynamic control and dynamical regimes in protein folding

Details Thermodynamic control and dynamical regimes in protein folding Thermodynamic control and dynamical regimes in protein folding

2001-10-07

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0110128v1

The Journal of Chemical Physics 116, 7231 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 14 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1466833

Monte Carlo simulations of a simple lattice model of protein folding show two distinct regimes depending on the chain length. The first regime well describes the folding of small protein sequences and its kinetic counterpart appears to be single exponential in nature, while the second regime is typical of sequences longer than 80 amino acids and the folding performance achievable is sensitive to target conformation. The extent to which stability, as measured by the energy of a sequence in the target, is an essential requirement and affects the folding dynamics of protein molecules in the first regime is investigated. The folding dynamics of sequences whose design stage was restricted to a certain fraction of randomly selected amino acids shows that while some degree of stability is a necessary and sufficient condition for successful folding, designing sequences that provide the lowest energy in the target seems to be a superfluous constraint. By studying the dynamics of under annealed but otherwise freely designed sequences we explore the relation between stability and kinetic accessibility. We find that there is no one-to-one correspondence between having low energy and folding quickly to the target, as only a small fraction of the most stable sequences were also found to fold relatively quickly.

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