Interplay between hydrophobic cluster and loop propensity in β-hairpin formation:: A mechanistic study

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作者
Colombo, G [1 ]
De Mori, GMS
Roccatano, D
机构
[1] CNR, Ist Chim Riconoscimento Mol, I-20131 Milan, Italy
[2] Univ Milan, Ctr Biomol Interdisciplinary Studies & Ind Applic, I-20030 Milan, Italy
[3] Univ Aquila, Dipartimento Chim Ingn Chim & Mat, I-67010 Laquila, Italy
关键词
protein folding; peptides; protein design; molecular dynamics; hairpin; peptide conformations in water;
D O I
10.1110/ps.0227203
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We investigated the structural determinants of the stability of a designed P-hairpin containing a natural hydrophobic cluster from the protein GB1 and a D-Pro-Gly turn forming sequence. The results of our simulations shed light on the factors leading to an ordered secondary structure in a model peptide: in particular, the importance of the so-called diagonal interactions in forming a stable hydrophobic nucleus in the beta-hairpin, together with the more obvious lateral interactions, is examined. With the use of long timescale MD simulations in explicit water, we show the role of diagonal interactions in driving the peptide to the correct folded structure (formation of the hydrophobic core with Trp 2, Tyr 4, and Phe 9 in the first stages of refolding) and in keeping it in the ensemble of folded conformations. The combination of the stabilizing effects of the D-Pro-Gly turn sequence and of the hydrophobic nucleus formation thus favors the attainment of an ordered secondary structure compatible with the one determined experimentally. Moreover, our data underline the importance of the juxtapositions of the side chains of amino acids not directly facing each other in the three-dimensional structure. The combination of these interactions forces the peptide to sample a nonrandom portion of the conformational space, as can be seen in the rapid collapse to an ordered structure in the refolding simulation, and shows that the unfolded state can be closely correlated to the folded ensemble of structures, at least in the case of small model peptides.
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