Exploring the folding free energy surface of a three-helix bundle protein.

Abstract:

:The multidimensional free energy surface for a small fast folding helical protein is explored based on first-principle calculations. The model represents the 46-residue segment from fragment B of staphylococcal protein A. The relationship between collapse and tertiary structure formation, and the order of collapse and secondary structure formation, are investigated. We find that the initial collapse process gives rise to a transition state with about 30% of the native tertiary structure and 50-70% of the native helix content. We also observe two distinct distributions of native helix in this collapsed state (Rg approximately 12 A), one with about 20% of the native helical hydrogen bonds, the other with near 70%. The former corresponds to a local minimum. The barrier from this metastable state to the native state is about 2 kBT. In the latter case, folding is essentially a downhill process involving topological assembly. In addition, the order of formation of secondary structure among the three helices is examined. We observe cooperative formation of the secondary structure in helix I and helix II. Secondary structure in helix III starts to form following the formation of certain secondary structure in both helix I and helix II. Comparisons of our results with those from theory and experiment are made.

authors

Guo Z,Brooks CL 3rd,Boczko EM

doi

10.1073/pnas.94.19.10161

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-09-16 00:00:00

pages

10161-6

issue

19

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

94

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