Cooperativity, Local-Nonlocal Coupling, and Nonnative Interactions: Principles of Protein Folding from Coarse-Grained Models
(2011) In Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 62. p.301-326- Abstract
- Coarse-grained, self-contained polymer models are powerful tools in the study of protein folding. They are also essential to assess predictions from less rigorous theoretical approaches that lack an explicit-chain representation. Here we review advances in coarse-grained modeling of cooperative protein folding, noting in particular that the Levinthal paradox was raised in response to the experimental discovery of two-state-like folding in the late 1960s, rather than to the problem of conformational search per se. Comparisons between theory and experiment indicate a prominent role of desolvation barriers in cooperative folding, which likely emerges generally from a coupling between local conformational preferences and nonlocal packing... (More)
- Coarse-grained, self-contained polymer models are powerful tools in the study of protein folding. They are also essential to assess predictions from less rigorous theoretical approaches that lack an explicit-chain representation. Here we review advances in coarse-grained modeling of cooperative protein folding, noting in particular that the Levinthal paradox was raised in response to the experimental discovery of two-state-like folding in the late 1960s, rather than to the problem of conformational search per se. Comparisons between theory and experiment indicate a prominent role of desolvation barriers in cooperative folding, which likely emerges generally from a coupling between local conformational preferences and nonlocal packing interactions. Many of these principles have been elucidated by native-centric models, wherein nonnative interactions may be treated perturbatively. We discuss these developments as well as recent applications of coarse-grained chain modeling to knotted proteins and to intrinsically disordered proteins. (Less)
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- Chan, Hue Sun ; Zhang, Zhuqing ; Wallin, Stefan LU and Liu, Zhirong
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- 2011
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- Contribution to journal
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- native topology, Levinthal paradox, folding funnel, energy landscape, desolvation, enthalpic barrier
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- Annual Review of Physical Chemistry
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- 62
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- 301 - 326
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- Annual Reviews
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- wos:000290636800015
- scopus:79953747234
- pmid:21453060
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- 1545-1593
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- 10.1146/annurev-physchem-032210-103405
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- English
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