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Assessment of Immunologically Relevant Dynamic Tertiary Structural Features of the HIV-1 V3 Loop Crown R2 Sequence by ab initio Folding
Published on: September 15, 2010
3D-Lattice Monte Carlo simulations of model proteins. Size effects on folding thermodynamics and kinetics
K Leonhard1, J M Prausnitz, C J Radke
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1462, USA.
Abstract:
Recently, we devised an energy scale to vary systematically amino-acid residue-solvent interactions for Monte Carlo simulations of lattice-model proteins in water. For 27-mer proteins, the folding behavior varies appreciably with the choice of interaction parameters. We now perform similar simulations with 64-mers to study the size dependence of the optimal energy parameter set for representing realistic behavior typical of many real proteins (i.e. fast folding and high cooperativity for single chains). We find that 64-mers are considerably more stable and more cooperative compared to 27-mers. The optimal interfacial-interaction-energy parameter set, however, is relatively size independent.
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