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Two-intermediate model to characterise the structure of fast-folding proteins

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This paper introduces a new model which enables researchers to conduct protein folding simulations. A two-step process is used in the course of structural analysis of a set of fast-folding proteins. The model assumes an early stage (ES) that depends solely on the backbone conformation, as described by its geometrical properties - specifically, by the V-angle between two sequential peptide bond planes (which determines the radius of curvature, also called R-radius, according to a 2 degree polynomial form). The agreement between the structure under consideration and the assumed model is measured in terms of the magnitude of dispersion of both parameters with respect to idealized values. The second step, called late-stage folding (LS), is based on the "fuzzy oil drop" model, which involves an external hydrophobic force field described by a three-dimensional Gauss function. The degree of conformance between the structure under consideration and its idealized model is expressed quantitatively by means of the Kullback-Leibler entropy, which is a measure of disparity between the observed and expected hydrophobicity distributions. A set of proteins, representative of the fast-folding group - specifically, cold shock proteins - is shown to agree with the proposed model.
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hal-00719489 , version 1 (20-07-2012)

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I. Roterman, L. Konieczny, Wiktor Jurkowski, K. Prymula, M. Banach. Two-intermediate model to characterise the structure of fast-folding proteins. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2011, 283 (1), pp.60. ⟨10.1016/j.jtbi.2011.05.027⟩. ⟨hal-00719489⟩

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