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ArticleThe protein journal2018

Exploring the Roles of Proline in Three-Dimensional Domain Swapping from Structure Analysis and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Yongqi Huang, Meng Gao, Zhengding Su

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Article in The protein journal, 2018. 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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Yongqi HuangInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China. yqhuang@hbut.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-9463-8325
Meng GaoInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China.
Zhengding SuInstitute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, 430068, China. zhengding.su@hbut.edu.cn.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 21603121
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Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) domain swapping is a mechanism to form protein oligomers. It has been proposed that several factors, including proline residues in the hinge region, may affect the occurrence of 3D domain swapping. Although introducing prolines into the hinge region has been found to promote domain swapping for some proteins, the opposite effect has also been observed in several studies. So far, how proline affects 3D domain swapping remains elusive. In this work, based on a large set of 3D domain-swapped structures, we performed a systematic analysis to explore the correlation between the presence of proline in the hinge region and the occurrence of 3D domain swapping. We further analyzed the conformations of proline and pre-proline residues to investigate the roles of proline in 3D domain swapping. We found that more than 40% of the domain-swapped structures contained proline residues in the hinge region. Unexpectedly, conformational transitions of proline residues were rarely observed upon domain swapping. Our analyses showed that hinge regions containing proline residues preferred more extended conformations, which may be beneficial for the occurrence of domain swapping by facilitating opening of the exchanged segments.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProlineProtein DomainsProteinsProlineProteinsBackbone dihedralConformational transitionDomain swappingStrain

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