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Non-Markovian modeling of protein folding

We extract the folding free energy landscape and the time-dependent friction function, the two ingredients of the generalized Langevin equation (GLE), from explicit-water molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the [Formula: see text]-helix forming polypeptide [Formula: see text] for a one-dimensiona...

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Autores principales: Ayaz, Cihan, Tepper, Lucas, Brünig, Florian N., Kappler, Julian, Daldrop, Jan O., Netz, Roland R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8346879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34326249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023856118
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Sumario:We extract the folding free energy landscape and the time-dependent friction function, the two ingredients of the generalized Langevin equation (GLE), from explicit-water molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the [Formula: see text]-helix forming polypeptide [Formula: see text] for a one-dimensional reaction coordinate based on the sum of the native H-bond distances. Folding and unfolding times from numerical integration of the GLE agree accurately with MD results, which demonstrate the robustness of our GLE-based non-Markovian model. In contrast, Markovian models do not accurately describe the peptide kinetics and in particular, cannot reproduce the folding and unfolding kinetics simultaneously, even if a spatially dependent friction profile is used. Analysis of the GLE demonstrates that memory effects in the friction significantly speed up peptide folding and unfolding kinetics, as predicted by the Grote–Hynes theory, and are the cause of anomalous diffusion in configuration space. Our methods are applicable to any reaction coordinate and in principle, also to experimental trajectories from single-molecule experiments. Our results demonstrate that a consistent description of protein-folding dynamics must account for memory friction effects.