Energy Transfer across Nonpolar and Polar Contacts in Proteins: Role of Contact Fluctuations

Autor: David M. Leitner, Takahisa Yamato, Humanath Poudel, Korey M. Reid
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124:9852-9861
ISSN: 1520-5207
1520-6106
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c08091
Popis: Molecular dynamics simulations of the villin headpiece subdomain HP36 have been carried out to examine relations between rates of vibrational energy transfer across non-covalently bonded contacts and equilibrium structural fluctuations, with focus on van der Waals contacts. Rates of energy transfer across van der Waals contacts vary inversely with the variance of the contact length, with the same constant of proportionality for all nonpolar contacts of HP36. A similar relation is observed for hydrogen bonds, but the proportionality depends on contact pairs, with hydrogen bonds stabilizing the α-helices all exhibiting the same constant of proportionality, one that is distinct from those computed for other polar contacts. Rates of energy transfer across van der Waals contacts are found to be up to 2 orders of magnitude smaller than rates of energy transfer across polar contacts.
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