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ArticleBiophysical journal2012

Coarse-grained simulations of protein-protein association: an energy landscape perspective.

Krishnakumar M Ravikumar, Wei Huang, Sichun Yang

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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3 authors.

Krishnakumar M RavikumarCenter for Proteomics and Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Wei Huang
Sichun Yang

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding protein-protein association is crucial in revealing the molecular basis of many biological processes. Here, we describe a theoretical simulation pipeline to study protein-protein association from an energy landscape perspective. First, a coarse-grained model is implemented and its applications are demonstrated via molecular dynamics simulations for several protein complexes. Second, an enhanced search method is used to efficiently sample a broad range of protein conformations. Third, multiple conformations are identified and clustered from simulation data and further projected on a three-dimensional globe specifying protein orientations and interacting energies. Results from several complexes indicate that the crystal-like conformation is favorable on the energy landscape even if the landscape is relatively rugged with metastable conformations. A closer examination on molecular forces shows that the formation of associated protein complexes can be primarily electrostatics-driven, hydrophobics-driven, or a combination of both in stabilizing specific binding interfaces. Taken together, these results suggest that the coarse-grained simulations and analyses provide an alternative toolset to study protein-protein association occurring in functional biomolecular complexes.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsProtein BindingProtein MultimerizationProteinsProtein StabilityProtein Structure, TertiaryStatic ElectricityThermodynamicsProteins

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PMID22947945
PMCPMC3443792

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