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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Residue Folding Degree-Relationship to Secondary Structure Categories and Use as Collective Variable.

Vladimir Sladek, Ryuhei Harada, Yasuteru Shigeta

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Vladimir SladekInstitute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 845 38 Bratislava, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0001-5332-7558
Ryuhei HaradaCenter for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7987-0540
Yasuteru ShigetaCenter for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3219-6007

Funding

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development JP20ae0101047h0001JSPS KAKENHI JP21K06094MEXT Quantum Leap Flagship Program JPMXS0120330644Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA-2/0031/19Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-19-0376Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-20-0230
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Abstract

Recently, we have shown that the residue folding degree, a network-based measure of folded content in proteins, is able to capture backbone conformational transitions related to the formation of secondary structures in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In this work, we focus primarily on developing a collective variable (CV) for MD based on this residue-bound parameter to be able to trace the evolution of secondary structure in segments of the protein. We show that this CV can do just that and that the related energy profiles (potentials of mean force, PMF) and transition barriers are comparable to those found by others for particular events in the folding process of the model mini protein Trp-cage. Hence, we conclude that the relative segment folding degree (the newly proposed CV) is a computationally viable option to gain insight into the formation of secondary structures in protein dynamics. We also show that this CV can be directly used as a measure of the amount of α-helical content in a selected segment.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationDatabases, ProteinPeptidesProtein FoldingProteinsProtein Structure, SecondaryThermodynamicsPeptidesProteinsTrp-cage peptidecollective variablesmolecular dynamicsnetworksprotein foldingsecondary structure

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PMCPMC8657879

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