ミリ秒のフォルダのためのab initioタンパク質の折り畳みの分子シミュレーション NTL9(1-39)
Vincent A Voelz1, Gregory R Bowman, Kyle Beauchamp
1Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|January 15, 2010
まとめ
研究者は分子動力学を用いてタンパク質の折り畳みをシミュレートし,NTL9 (((1-39) のミリ秒時間スケールを達成しました. タンパク質の折りたたみシミュレーションにおけるこの画期的な発見は,ベータ (((12) ヘアピン形成の速度を制限するステップの洞察を提供します.
科学分野:
- 計算生物学とは,計算生物学である.
- バイオフィジックス 生物物理学
- 分子ダイナミクスシミュレーション
背景:
- 以前の全原子分子ダイナミクスシミュレーションでは,ナノ秒からマイクロ秒の範囲でタンパク質の折り畳み時間を達成しました.
- タンパク質NTL9 (((1-39) は,実験的に決定された折り畳み時間は約1.5ミリ秒です.
研究 の 目的:
- NTL9 (((1-39) の折り畳みをマイクロ秒を超えた時間スケールにシミュレートする.
- 計算的方法を使用して,NTL9の折り畳み経路と運動学を調査する.
主な方法:
- GPUプロセッサの暗黙の溶媒での分散分子動力シミュレーション.
- 様々な温度と初期状態での軌道の集合の生成.
- シミュレーションデータからマルコフ状態モデル (MSM) の構築.
主要な成果:
- フォースフィールドの融点以下の温度で観察された生産的な折り畳み現象.
- シミュレーションから予測された折り畳み速度は,実験値 (~640/s) と密接に一致しました.
- MSMは2つの状態の折りたたみと異質な経路を示し,ベータ (((12) ヘアピン形成が潜在的に速度を制限することを示しました.
結論:
- シミュレーションにより,タンパク質の折り畳みダイナミクスをミリ秒の時間スケールまで成功的に拡張しました.
- NTL9(1-39) の折りたたみにおける潜在的速度制限のステップとして,ヘアピン形成のベータを特定した.
- 折り畳み可能な景観の収束した記述をより長い時間スケールで達成するための方法として,提案された適応的再サンプリングシミュレーション.
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