One short cysteine-rich sequence pattern - two different disulfide-bonded structures - a molecular dynamics simulation study

Journal of Peptide Science : an Official Publication of the European Peptide Society
Sonja A Dames

Abstract

The nematocyst walls of Hydra are formed by proteins containing small cysteine-rich domains (CRDs) of ~25 amino acids. The first CRD of nematocyst outer all antigen (NW1) and the C-terminal CRD of minicollagen-1 (Mcol1C) contain six cysteines at identical sequence positions, however adopt different disulfide bonded structures. NW1 shows the disulfide connectivities C2-C14/C6-C19/C10-C18 and Mcol1C C2-C18/C6-C14/C10-C19. To analyze if both show structural preferences in the open, non-disulfide bonded form, which explain the formation of either disulfide connectivity pattern, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations at different temperatures were performed. NW1 maintained in the 100-ns MD simulations at 283 K a rather compact fold that is stabilized by specific hydrogen bonds. The Mcol1C structure fluctuated overall more, however stayed most of the time also rather compact. The analysis of the backbone Φ/ψ angles indicated different turn propensities for NW1 and Mcol1C, which mostly can be explained based on published data about the influence of different amino acid side chains on the local backbone conformation. Whereas a folded precursor mechanism may be considered for NW1, Mcol1C may fold according to the quasi-stochastic folding m...Continue Reading

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