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Conformational transitions of adenylate kinase: switching by cracking.

ABSTRACT: Conformational heterogeneity in proteins is known to often be the key to their function. We present a coarse grained model to explore the interplay between protein structure, folding and function which is applicable to allosteric or non-allosteric proteins. We employ the model to study the detailed mechanism of the reversible conformational transition of Adenylate Kinase (AKE) between the open to the closed conformation, a reaction that is crucial to the protein's catalytic function. We directly observe high strain energy which appears to be correlated with localized unfolding during the functional transition. This work also demonstrates that competing native interactions from the open and closed form can account for the large conformational transitions in AKE. We further characterize the conformational transitions with a new measure Phi(Func), and demonstrate that local unfolding may be due, in part, to competing intra-protein interactions.

SUBMITTER: Whitford PC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2561047 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar

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Conformational transitions of adenylate kinase: switching by cracking.

Whitford Paul C PC Miyashita Osamu O Levy Yaakov Y Onuchic José N JN

Journal of molecular biology 20061205 5

Conformational heterogeneity in proteins is known to often be the key to their function. We present a coarse grained model to explore the interplay between protein structure, folding and function which is applicable to allosteric or non-allosteric proteins. We employ the model to study the detailed mechanism of the reversible conformational transition of Adenylate Kinase (AKE) between the open to the closed conformation, a reaction that is crucial to the protein's catalytic function. We directly ...[more]

PMID: 17217965

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