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Free-energy landscape of protein oligomerization from atomistic simulations.


ABSTRACT: In the realm of protein-protein interactions, the assembly process of homooligomers plays a fundamental role because the majority of proteins fall into this category. A comprehensive understanding of this multistep process requires the characterization of the driving molecular interactions and the transient intermediate species. The latter are often short-lived and thus remain elusive to most experimental investigations. Molecular simulations provide a unique tool to shed light onto these complex processes complementing experimental data. Here we combine advanced sampling techniques, such as metadynamics and parallel tempering, to characterize the oligomerization landscape of fibritin foldon domain. This system is an evolutionarily optimized trimerization motif that represents an ideal model for experimental and computational mechanistic studies. Our results are fully consistent with previous experimental nuclear magnetic resonance and kinetic data, but they provide a unique insight into fibritin foldon assembly. In particular, our simulations unveil the role of nonspecific interactions and suggest that an interplay between thermodynamic bias toward native structure and residual conformational disorder may provide a kinetic advantage.

SUBMITTER: Barducci A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3856838 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Free-energy landscape of protein oligomerization from atomistic simulations.

Barducci Alessandro A   Bonomi Massimiliano M   Prakash Meher K MK   Parrinello Michele M  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131118 49


In the realm of protein-protein interactions, the assembly process of homooligomers plays a fundamental role because the majority of proteins fall into this category. A comprehensive understanding of this multistep process requires the characterization of the driving molecular interactions and the transient intermediate species. The latter are often short-lived and thus remain elusive to most experimental investigations. Molecular simulations provide a unique tool to shed light onto these comple  ...[more]

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