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ArticleeLife2020

Investigating the trade-off between folding and function in a multidomain Y-family DNA polymerase.

Xiakun Chu, Zucai Suo, Jin Wang

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Xiakun ChuDepartment of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3166-7070
Zucai SuoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3871-3420
Jin WangDepartment of Chemistry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2841-4913
State University of New York · USFlorida State University · US

Funding

Theoretical and experimental investigation of multi-domain protein folding and conformational dynamicsR01GM124177 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI WANG, JIN · 2018 to 2021
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124177
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The way in which multidomain proteins fold has been a puzzling question for decades. Until now, the mechanisms and functions of domain interactions involved in multidomain protein folding have been obscure. Here, we develop structure-based models to investigate the folding and DNA-binding processes of the multidomain Y-family DNA polymerase IV (DPO4). We uncover shifts in the folding mechanism among ordered domain-wise folding, backtracking folding, and cooperative folding, modulated by interdomain interactions. These lead to 'U-shaped' DPO4 folding kinetics. We characterize the effects of interdomain flexibility on the promotion of DPO4-DNA (un)binding, which probably contributes to the ability of DPO4 to bypass DNA lesions, which is a known biological role of Y-family polymerases. We suggest that the native topology of DPO4 leads to a trade-off between fast, stable folding and tight functional DNA binding. Our approach provides an effective way to quantitatively correlate the roles of protein interactions in conformational dynamics at the multidomain level.

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Protein FoldingDNADNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA Polymerase betaProtein ConformationProtein DomainsThermodynamicsDNADNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseDNA Polymerase betacoarse-grained modelcomputational biologyconformational dynamicsenergy landscapemolecular biophysicsnoneprotein-DNA recognitionprotein foldingstructural biologysystems biology

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PMID33079059
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