Irbäck Anders, Mohanty Sandipan
Complex Systems Division, Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Biophys J. 2005 Mar;88(3):1560-9. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.050427. Epub 2004 Dec 21.
A simplified interaction potential for protein folding studies at the atomic level is discussed and tested on a set of peptides with approximately 20 residues each. The test set contains both alpha-helical (Trp cage, F(s)) and beta-sheet (GB1p, GB1m2, GB1m3, Betanova, LLM) peptides. The model, which is entirely sequence-based, is able to fold these different peptides for one and the same choice of model parameters. Furthermore, the melting behavior of the peptides is in good quantitative agreement with experimental data. Apparent folded populations obtained using different observables are compared, and are found to be very different for some of the peptides (e.g., Betanova). In other cases (in particular, GB1m2 and GB1m3), the different estimates agree reasonably well, indicating a more two-state-like melting behavior.
讨论了一种用于原子水平蛋白质折叠研究的简化相互作用势,并在一组每条约有20个残基的肽上进行了测试。测试集包含α-螺旋(色氨酸笼,F(s))和β-折叠(GB1p、GB1m2、GB1m3、Betanova、LLM)肽。该模型完全基于序列,对于相同的模型参数选择,能够折叠这些不同的肽。此外,肽的解链行为与实验数据在定量上吻合良好。比较了使用不同可观测量获得的表观折叠群体,发现对于某些肽(例如,Betanova)差异很大。在其他情况下(特别是GB1m2和GB1m3),不同的估计结果相当吻合,表明解链行为更类似两态。