Delineation of folding pathways of a β-sheet miniprotein

TitleDelineation of folding pathways of a β-sheet miniprotein
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsZheng W., Qi B., Rohrdanz M.A, Caflisch A., Dinner A.R, Clementi C.
JournalThe Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Volume115
Issue44
Pagination13065-13074
Date Published2011 Nov 10
Type of ArticleResearch Article
KeywordsModels, Molecular, Peptides, Protein Folding, Protein Structure, Secondary, Thermodynamics
Abstract

Several methods have been developed in the past few years for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations of biological (macro)molecules whose complexity is difficult to capture by simple projections of the free-energy surface onto one or two geometric variables. The locally scaled diffusion map (LSDMap) method is a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique for describing the dynamics of complex systems in terms of a few collective coordinates. Here, we compare LSDMap to two previously developed approaches for the characterization of the configurational landscape associated with the folding dynamics of a three-stranded antiparallel β-sheet peptide, termed Β3s. The analysis is aided by an improved procedure for extracting pathways from the equilibrium transition network, which enables calculation of pathway-specific cut-based free energy profiles. We find that the results from LSDMap are consistent with analysis based on transition networks and allow a coherent interpretation of metastable states and folding pathways in terms of different time scales of transitions between minima on the free energy projections.

DOI10.1021/jp2076935
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Alternate JournalJ. Phys. Chem. B
PubMed ID21942785
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