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ArticleBiophysical journal2017

pH Dependence of Charge Multipole Moments in Proteins.

Anže Lošdorfer Božič, Rudolf Podgornik

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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2 authors.

Anže Lošdorfer BožičDepartment of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Electronic address: anze.bozic@ijs.si.
Rudolf PodgornikDepartment of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrostatic interactions play a fundamental role in the structure and function of proteins. Due to ionizable amino acid residues present on the solvent-exposed surfaces of proteins, the protein charge is not constant but varies with the changes in the environment-most notably, the pH of the surrounding solution. We study the effects of pH on the charge of four globular proteins by expanding their surface charge distributions in terms of multipoles. The detailed representation of the charges on the proteins is in this way replaced by the magnitudes and orientations of the multipole moments of varying order. Focusing on the three lowest-order multipoles-the total charge, dipole, and quadrupole moment-we show that the value of pH influences not only their magnitudes, but more notably and importantly also the spatial orientation of their principal axes. Our findings imply important consequences for the study of protein-protein interactions and the assembly of both proteinaceous shells and patchy colloids with dissociable charge groups.

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Hydrogen-Ion ConcentrationAmino AcidsAnimalsCapsid ProteinsCattleChickensEgg ProteinsHumansLactoglobulinsLevivirusModels, MolecularMuramidaseProtein Structure, TertiarySerum AlbuminSolventsStatic ElectricityAmino AcidsCapsid ProteinsEgg ProteinsLactoglobulinsMuramidaseSerum AlbuminSolvents

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PMID28978439
PMCPMC5627345

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