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High-Pressure NMR Experiments for Detecting Protein Low-Lying Conformational States
Published on: June 29, 2021
Possible mechanism for cold denaturation of proteins at high pressure
Manuel I Marqués1, Jose M Borreguero, H Eugene Stanley
1Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. manuel@argento.bu.edu
Abstract:
We study cold denaturation of proteins at high pressures. Using multicanonical Monte Carlo simulations of a model protein in a water bath, we investigate the effect of water density fluctuations on protein stability. We find that above the pressure where water freezes to the dense ice phase (approximately 2 kbars) the mechanism for cold denaturation with decreasing temperature is the loss of local low-density water structure. We find our results in agreement with data of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A.
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