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ArticleeLife2025

Conformational changes, excess area, and elasticity of the Piezo protein-membrane nanodome from coarse-grained and atomistic simulations.

Sneha Dixit, Frank Noé, Thomas R Weikl

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3 authors.

Sneha DixitDepartment of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institut of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4874-8823
Frank NoéDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Thomas R WeiklDepartment of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institut of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0911-5328

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft CRC 1114/A4
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mechanosensitive ion channels Piezo 1 and 2 induce a curved protein-membrane nanodome that flattens with increasing membrane tension γ. The tension-induced flattening of the nanodome is associated with Piezo activation and driven by the energy γΔA where ΔA is the excess area of the curved nanodome relative to its planar projected area. Based on extensive coarse-grained and atomistic simulations of membrane-embedded Piezo 1 and 2 proteins, we report here an excess area ΔA for the Piezo protein-membrane nanodome of about 40 nm

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Cell MembraneIon ChannelsElasticityMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationIon Channelselasticitymechanosensitivitymembrane bending energymembrane tensionmolecular biophysicsmolecular dynamics simulationsnonePiezo proteinsstructural biology

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PMID40990462
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