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Thermal versus mechanical unfolding of ubiquitin

Irbäck, Anders LU orcid and Mitternacht, Simon LU (2006) In Proteins 65(3). p.759-766
Abstract
The authors studied the temperature-induced unfolding of ubiquitin by all-atom Monte Carlo simulations. The unfolding behavior is compared with that seen in previous simulations of the mechanical unfolding of this protein, based on the same model. In mechanical unfolding, secondary-structure elements were found to break in a quite well-defined order. In thermal unfolding, the authors saw somewhat larger event-to-event fluctuations, but the unfolding pathway, was still far from random. Two long-lived secondary-structure elements could be identified in the simulations. These two elements have been found experimentally to be the thermally most stable ones. Interestingly, one of these long-lived elements, the first P-hairpin, was found to... (More)
The authors studied the temperature-induced unfolding of ubiquitin by all-atom Monte Carlo simulations. The unfolding behavior is compared with that seen in previous simulations of the mechanical unfolding of this protein, based on the same model. In mechanical unfolding, secondary-structure elements were found to break in a quite well-defined order. In thermal unfolding, the authors saw somewhat larger event-to-event fluctuations, but the unfolding pathway, was still far from random. Two long-lived secondary-structure elements could be identified in the simulations. These two elements have been found experimentally to be the thermally most stable ones. Interestingly, one of these long-lived elements, the first P-hairpin, was found to break early in the mechanical unfolding simulations. Their combined simulation results thus enable the authors to predict in detail important differences between the thermal and mechanical unfolding behaviors of ubiquitin. (Less)
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protein folding, unfolding, temperature-induced unfolding, all-atom model, force-induced, Monte Carlo simulation
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Proteins
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65
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3
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759 - 766
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John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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  • wos:000241247100020
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0887-3585
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10.1002/prot.21145
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English
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  author       = {{Irbäck, Anders and Mitternacht, Simon}},
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  keywords     = {{protein folding; unfolding; temperature-induced unfolding; all-atom model; force-induced; Monte Carlo simulation}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{3}},
  pages        = {{759--766}},
  publisher    = {{John Wiley & Sons Inc.}},
  series       = {{Proteins}},
  title        = {{Thermal versus mechanical unfolding of ubiquitin}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.21145}},
  doi          = {{10.1002/prot.21145}},
  volume       = {{65}},
  year         = {{2006}},
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