Constructing, verifying, and dissecting the folding transition state of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 with all-atom simulations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
L Li, Eugene I Shakhnovich

Abstract

Experimentally, protein engineering and phi-value analysis is the method of choice to characterize the structure in folding transition state ensemble (TSE) of any protein. Combining experimental phi values and computer simulations has led to a deeper understanding of how proteins fold. In this report, we construct the TSE of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 from published phi values. Importantly, we verify, by means of multiple independent simulations, that the conformations in the TSE have a probability of approximately 0.5 to reach the native state rapidly, so the TSE consists of true transition states. This finding validates the use of transition state theory underlying all phi-value analyses. Also, we present a method to dissect and study the TSE by generating conformations that have a disrupted alpha-helix (alpha-disrupted states) or disordered beta-strands 3 and 4 (beta-disrupted states). Surprisingly, the alpha-disrupted states have a stronger tendency to fold than the beta-disrupted states, despite the higher phi values for the alpha-helix in the TSE. We give a plausible explanation for this result and discuss its implications on protein folding and design. Our study shows that, by using both experiments and computer simulation...Continue Reading

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