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Energy evaluation of β-strand packing in a fibril-forming SH3 domain
Sichun Yang1, Krishnakumar M Ravikumar, Herbert Levine
1Center for Proteomics and Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University , Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Abstract:
We examine the energetics of β-strand packing in a fibril-forming SH3 domain using a simple sequence-based energy model. First, we describe this packing energy function and then apply it to three model systems: Aβ, HET-s prion, and SH3 domain. The packing results of Aβ and HET-s are compared to and are consistent with available experimental and computational results. Moreover, our results show that a native β-strand in SH3 is strongly disfavored to pack with any other strand, in accord with recent NMR data. Finally, based on packing energy calculations, several SH3 models of β-strand packing are proposed that fit well with known electron microscopy maps.
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