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ArticleScientific reports2017

Accessibility explains preferred thiol-disulfide isomerization in a protein domain.

Katra Kolšek, Camilo Aponte-Santamaría, Frauke Gräter

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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3 authors.

Katra KolšekHeidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Camilo Aponte-SantamaríaHeidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Frauke GräterHeidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany. frauke.graeter@h-its.org.ORCID 0000-0003-2891-3381

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disulfide bonds are key stabilizing and yet potentially labile cross-links in proteins. While spontaneous disulfide rearrangement through thiol-disulfide exchange is increasingly recognized to play an important physiological role, its molecular determinants are still largely unknown. Here, we used a novel hybrid Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics scheme to elucidate the molecular principles of thiol-disulfide exchange in proteins, for a mutated immunoglobulin domain as a model system. Unexpectedly, using simple proximity as the criterion for thiol-disulfide exchange, our method correctly predicts the experimentally observed regiospecificity and selectivity of the cysteine-rich protein. While redox reactivity has been examined primarily on the level of transition states and activation barriers, our results argue for accessibility of the disulfide by the attacking thiol given the highly dynamic and sterically demanding protein as a major bottleneck of thiol-disulfide exchange. This scenario may be similarly at play in other proteins with or without an evolutionarily designed active site.

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Protein DomainsProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsCysteineDisulfidesIsomerismMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationProteinsStructure-Activity RelationshipSulfhydryl CompoundsCysteineDisulfidesProteinsSulfhydryl Compounds

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PMID28851879
PMCPMC5575259

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