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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2015

Comparing Fast Pressure Jump and Temperature Jump Protein Folding Experiments and Simulations.

Anna Jean Wirth, Yanxin Liu, Maxim B Prigozhin, Klaus Schulten, Martin Gruebele

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Structure of a transient protein-folding intermediate by pressure-jump NMR spectroscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. Proteins: "Boil 'Em, Mash 'Em, Stick 'Em in a Stew".The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2019
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  13. Fast pressure-jump all-atom simulations and experiments reveal site-specific protein dehydration-folding dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  16. Study of protein folding under native conditions by rapidly switching the hydrostatic pressure inside an NMR sample cell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anna Jean Wirth *Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Yanxin Liu *Department of Physics, and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Maxim B PrigozhinDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Klaus SchultenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Martin GruebeleDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

WHOLE CELL SIMULATIONP41GM104601 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI TAJKHORSHID, EMAD · 2012 to 2021
$19.0M
Protein refolding and transient aggregate formation studied by very fast pressureR01GM093318 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI GRUEBELE, MARTIN · 2010 to 2020
$3.1M
Innovative Supercomputing for Breakthrough Molecular DynamicsRC2GM093307 · NIGMS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI DITTRICH, MARKUS · 2009 to 2010
$2.7M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS 2R01-GM093318NIGMS NIH HHS 9P41GM104601NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM104601NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093318NIGMS NIH HHS RC2 GM093307NIGMS NIH HHS RC2GM093307
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The unimolecular folding reaction of small proteins is now amenable to a very direct mechanistic comparison between experiment and simulation. We present such a comparison of microsecond pressure and temperature jump refolding kinetics of the engineered WW domain FiP35, a model system for β-sheet folding. Both perturbations produce experimentally a faster and a slower kinetic phase, and the "slow" microsecond phase is activated. The fast phase shows differences between perturbation methods and is closer to the downhill limit by temperature jump, but closer to the transiently populated intermediate limit by pressure jump. These observations make more demands on simulations of the folding process than just a rough comparison of time scales. To complement experiments, we carried out several pressure jump and temperature jump all-atom molecular dynamics trajectories in explicit solvent, where FiP35 folded in five of the six simulations. We analyzed our pressure jump simulations by kinetic modeling and found that the pressure jump experiments and MD simulations are most consistent with a 4-state kinetic mechanism. Together, our experimental and computational data highlight FiP35's position at the boundary where activated intermediates and downhill folding meet, and we show that this model protein is an excellent candidate for further pressure jump molecular dynamics studies to compare experiment and modeling at the folding mechanism level.

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PressureProtein FoldingTemperatureEscherichia coli ProteinsKineticsMolecular Dynamics SimulationEscherichia coli Proteins

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PMID25988868
PMCPMC4794261
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