Cooperativity in two-state protein folding kinetics |
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Authors: | Weikl Thomas R Palassini Matteo Dill Ken A |
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Institution: | Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, 94143, USA. Thomas. Weikl@mpikg-golm.mpg.de |
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Abstract: | We present a solvable model that predicts the folding kinetics of two-state proteins from their native structures. The model is based on conditional chain entropies. It assumes that folding processes are dominated by small-loop closure events that can be inferred from native structures. For CI2, the src SH3 domain, TNfn3, and protein L, the model reproduces two-state kinetics, and it predicts well the average Phi-values for secondary structures. The barrier to folding is the formation of predominantly local structures such as helices and hairpins, which are needed to bring nonlocal pairs of amino acids into contact. |
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Keywords: | protein folding kinetics two-state folding folding cooperativity Φ-value analysis effective contact order loop-closure entropy master equation |
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