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Modeling Facilitated Diffusion of Proteins in Crowded Environment.

作者信息

Choudhary Shrawan Kumar, Dey Pinki, Bhattacherjee Arnab

机构信息

School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Centre for Healthy Futures (CHEF), Torrens University, Surry Hill Campus, Sydney, Australia.

出版信息

Subcell Biochem. 2025;109:499-529. doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-03370-3_22.

Abstract

The interaction between proteins and DNA is fundamental to numerous enzymatic processes, relying on the precise recognition of specific DNA bases by DNA-binding proteins (DBPs). This interaction occurs within the densely packed environment of the cell nucleus, which contains high concentrations of biomolecules. Consequently, the limited intracellular space can impact the diffusion and association of large macromolecules. This scenario prompts the question of how the complex milieu of the cell nucleus influences the ability of DBPs to locate and bind to their target DNA sites within a large polymeric DNA substrate. In this work, we review the in silico approaches used to investigate the facilitated diffusion of DBPs along DNA and the influence of crowded environments on this process. We illustrate that the effects of crowding differ significantly from those observed in protein-protein associations and cannot be solely attributed to volume exclusion principles. Additionally, we demonstrate how the physicochemical characteristics of crowding agents impact the facilitated diffusion of DBPs, crucial for understanding the protein's search for its DNA binding motif within the densely packed nuclear environment.

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