Mecanismos de la mecanostabilidad de Nanonewton en un complejo de proteínas revelados por simulaciones de dinámica

Rafael C Bernardi1, Ellis Durner2, Constantin Schoeler2

  • 1Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana , Illinois 61801 , United States.

Resumen

Las simulaciones de dinámica molecular combinadas con experimentos predicen con precisión el comportamiento mecánico complejo de las proteínas. El complejo X-módulo-Dockerin (XDoc) y Cohesin (Coh) muestra una notable estabilidad debido a su arquitectura, con el módulo X protegiéndolo de la ruptura.

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