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ArticleScience advances2015

Native proteins trap high-energy transit conformations.

Andrew E Brereton, P Andrew Karplus

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Article in Science advances, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  7. On the reliability of peptide nonplanarity seen in ultra-high resolution crystal structures.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2016
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2 authors.

Andrew E BreretonDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
P Andrew KarplusDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.

Funding

Improving Modeling by Learning from Details of High Accuracy Protein StructuresR01GM083136 · NIGMS · OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KARPLUS, PAUL ANDREW · 2008 to 2015
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During protein folding and as part of some conformational changes that regulate protein function, the polypeptide chain must traverse high-energy barriers that separate the commonly adopted low-energy conformations. How distortions in peptide geometry allow these barrier-crossing transitions is a fundamental open question. One such important transition involves the movement of a non-glycine residue between the left side of the Ramachandran plot (that is, ϕ < 0°) and the right side (that is, ϕ > 0°). We report that high-energy conformations with ϕ ~ 0°, normally expected to occur only as fleeting transition states, are stably trapped in certain highly resolved native protein structures and that an analysis of these residues provides a detailed, experimentally derived map of the bond angle distortions taking place along the transition path. This unanticipated information lays to rest any uncertainty about whether such transitions are possible and how they occur, and in doing so lays a firm foundation for theoretical studies to better understand the transitions between basins that have been little studied but are integrally involved in protein folding and function. Also, the context of one such residue shows that even a designed highly stable protein can harbor substantial unfavorable interactions.

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conformational transitiondipeptide conformationdisallowed conformationpeptide geometryprotein foldingprotein stabilityramachandran plotstraintransition state

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PMCPMC4646835

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