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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2008

Cooperativity, connectivity, and folding pathways of multidomain proteins.

Kazuhito Itoh, Masaki Sasai

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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  11. Cooperativity and modularity in protein folding.Biophysics and physicobiology · 2016
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  13. Folding pathway of a multidomain protein depends on its topology of domain connectivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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  19. Entropic mechanism of large fluctuation in allosteric transition.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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  20. Ubiquitin not only serves as a tag but also assists degradation by inducing protein unfolding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2010
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2 authors.

Kazuhito ItohDepartment of Computational Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. kazuhito@tbp.cse.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Masaki Sasai

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multidomain proteins are ubiquitous in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteomes. Study on protein folding, however, has concentrated more on the isolated single domains of proteins, and there have been relatively few systematic studies on the effects of domain-domain interactions on folding. We here discuss this issue by examining human gammaD-crystallin, spore coat protein S, and a tandem array of the R16 and R17 domains of spectrin as example proteins by using a structure-based model of folding. The calculated results consistently explain the experimental data on folding pathways and effects of mutational perturbations, supporting the view that the connectivity of two domains and the distribution of domain-domain interactions in the native conformation are factors to determine kinetic and equilibrium properties of cooperative folding.

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Protein FoldingBacterial ProteinsCrystallinsgamma-CrystallinsHumansModels, MolecularProtein Structure, TertiarySpectrinBacterial ProteinsCRYGD protein, humanCrystallinsgamma-Crystallinsprotein S, Myxococcus xanthusSpectrin

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PMID18772375
PMCPMC2544545

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