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A small tripeptide AFA undergoes two state cooperative conformational transitions: Implications for conformational biases in unfolded states

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Title A small tripeptide AFA undergoes two state cooperative conformational transitions: Implications for conformational biases in unfolded states
 
Creator PATEL, S
TAIMNI, R
SASIDHAR, YU
 
Subject molecular-dynamics simulations
particle mesh ewald
polypeptide-chains
aqueous-solution
denatured state
ribonuclease-a
cytochrome-c
drug design
protein
water
tripeptide
molecular dynamics
gromacs
unfolded state
two state transitions
protein folding
 
Description It is important to understand the conformational biases that are present in unfolded states to understand protein folding. In this context, it is surprising that even a short tripeptide like AFA samples folded/ordered conformation as demonstrated recently by NMR experiments of the peptide in Aqueous solution at 280 K. In this paper, we present molecular dynamics simulation of the peptide in explicit water using OPLS-AA/L all-atom force field. The results are in overall agreement with NMR results and provide some further insights. The peptide samples turn and extended conformational forms corresponding to minima in free energy landscape. Frequent transitions between the minima are observed due to modest free energy barriers. The turn conformation seems to be stabilized by hydrophobic interactions and possibly by bridging water molecules between backbone donors and acceptors. Thus the peptide does not sample conformations randomly, but samples well defined conformations. The peptide served as a model for folding-unfolding equilibrium in the context of peptide folding. Further, implications for drug design are also discussed.
 
Publisher BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
 
Date 2011-07-18T23:27:45Z
2011-12-26T12:50:53Z
2011-12-27T05:37:03Z
2011-07-18T23:27:45Z
2011-12-26T12:50:53Z
2011-12-27T05:37:03Z
2007
 
Type Article
 
Identifier PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS, 14(6), 581-589
0929-8665
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/5100
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/5100
 
Language en