Characterizing a partially ordered miniprotein through folding molecular dynamics simulations: Comparison with the experimental data.

ABSTRACT: The villin headpiece helical subdomain (HP36) is one of the best known model systems for computational studies of fast-folding all-α miniproteins. HP21 is a peptide fragment-derived from HP36-comprising only the first and second helices of the full domain. Experimental studies showed that although HP21 is mostly unfolded in solution, it does maintain some persistent native-like structure as indicated by the analysis of NMR-derived chemical shifts. Here we compare the experimental data for HP21 with the results obtained from a 15-μs long folding molecular dynamics simulation performed in explicit water and with full electrostatics. We find that the simulation is in good agreement with the experiment and faithfully reproduces the major experimental findings, namely that (a) HP21 is disordere

SUBMITTER: Baltzis AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4815414 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature