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ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2018

A spin-1 representation for dual-funnel energy landscapes.

Justin E Elenewski, Kirill A Velizhanin, Michael Zwolak

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Article in The Journal of chemical physics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Justin E ElenewskiCenter for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.
Kirill A VelizhaninTheoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.ORCID 0000000306451112
Michael ZwolakCenter for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.ORCID 0000000164437816

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interconversion between the left- and right-handed helical folds of a polypeptide defines a dual-funneled free energy landscape. In this context, the funnel minima are connected through a continuum of unfolded conformations, evocative of the classical helix-coil transition. Physical intuition and recent conjectures suggest that this landscape can be mapped by assigning a left- or right-handed helical state to each residue. We explore this possibility using all-atom replica exchange molecular dynamics and an Ising-like model, demonstrating that the energy landscape architecture is at odds with a two-state picture. A three-state model-left, right, and unstructured-can account for most key intermediates during chiral interconversion. Competing folds and excited conformational states still impose limitations on the scope of this approach. However, the improvement is stark: Moving from a two-state to a three-state model decreases the fit error from 1.6 k

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