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Reversible Effects of Peptide Concentration and Lipid Composition on H-Ras Lipid Anchor Clustering.


ABSTRACT: Dynamic clusters of lipid-anchored Ras proteins are important for high-fidelity signal transduction in cells. The average size of Ras nanoclusters was reported to be independent of protein expression levels, and cholesterol depletion is commonly used to test the raft-preference of nanoclusters. However, whether protein concentration and membrane domain stability affect Ras clustering in a reversible manner is not well understood. We used coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to examine the reversibility of the effects of peptide and cholesterol concentrations as well as a lipid domain-perturbing nanoparticle (C60) on the dynamics and stability of H-Ras lipid-anchor nanoclusters. By comparing results from these simulations with previous observations from the literature, we show that effects of peptide/cholesterol concentrations on the dynamics and stability of H-Ras peptide nanoclusters are reversible. Our results also suggest a correlation between the stabilities of lipid domains and Ras nanoclusters, which is supported by our finding that C60 penetrates into the liquid-disordered domain of the bilayer, destabilizing lipid domains and thereby the stability of the nanoclusters.

SUBMITTER: Lin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699922 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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