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PROTEIN PHYSICSPROTEIN PHYSICS
LECTURE 21LECTURE 21
Protein StructuresProtein Structures: Kinetic Aspects (3): Kinetic Aspects (3)
Nucleation in the 1-st order phase transitionsNucleation in the 1-st order phase transitions Nucleation of protein foldingNucleation of protein folding Solution of Levinthal paradoxSolution of Levinthal paradox Folding rate: Folding rate: chain length and 3D fold (“contact order”) chain length and 3D fold (“contact order”)
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Levinthal paradox
Native protein structure Native protein structure reversibly refolds from reversibly refolds from various starts, i.e., it is various starts, i.e., it is thermodynamically thermodynamically stable.stable.
But how can protein But how can protein chain find this unique chain find this unique structure - within structure - within seconds - among zillions seconds - among zillions alternatives?alternatives?
However, the same problem – how to find one configuration among zillions – is met by crystallization and other 1-st order phase transitions.
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1-st order phase transition:1-st order phase transition:rate of nucleationrate of nucleation
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The idea that protein folding includes nucleation,as the other 1-st order phase transitions, gave a clue to solve the Levinthal paradox
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1) Protein unfolding is reversible, and it occurs as an “all-or-none” transition in single-domain proteins. This means that only two states, native and denatured, are present (close to the mid-transition) in a visible quantity.
2) “All-or-none” transition requires the amino acid sequence that provides a large energy gap between the most stable structure and the bulk of misfolded ones.
3) The denatured state is often the random coil.4) Native structure, even under physiological conditions, is
only by a few kcal/mol more stable than the unfolded state (i.e., it is not far from the mid-transition).
Before considering kinetics, let us recall basic facts on protein thermodynamics (for 1-domain proteins, of 50–200 residues).
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Let us consider sequential folding (or unfolding) of a chain that has a large energy gap between the most stable fold and the bulk of the other ones; and let us consider its folding close to the thermodynamic mid-transition
How fast the most stable fold will be achieved?Note. Elementary rearrangement of 1 residue takes 1-10 ns. Thus, 100-residue protein would fold within s, if there were no free energy barrier at the pathway…
sequential folding/unfolding
The same pathway: “detailed balance”
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Free energy barrier:
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THISEXPLAINS PROTEINFOLDING TIMES:
Mid-transition
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Nucleus:not as small, it comprises 20-60%of the protein
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Up to now, a vicinity of mid-transition has been considered. When the globular state becomes more and more stable, this accelerates folding at first (when the native structure is still the only structure that is more stable than the denatured state), but then a massive misfolding and subsequent rearrangement of wrong folds can decrease the folding rate.
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Quantitative consideration needs analysis of networks of folding pathways. This results in more accurate theoretical estimates of folding rates, as well as positions of the folding nuclei.
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The rate of 2-state folding The rate of 2-state folding depends mainly on the depends mainly on the contact order, contact order, while while the rate of 3-state folding the rate of 3-state folding depends mainly on the depends mainly on the chain length.chain length.
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Protein StructuresProtein Structures: Kinetic Aspects: Kinetic Aspects
Protein folds spontaneously. How can it?Protein folds spontaneously. How can it?
Protein folding intermediates. Protein folding intermediates.
MG.MG.
Transition state & Transition state &
folding nucleus.folding nucleus.
Solution of Levinthal paradox.Solution of Levinthal paradox.
Theory of folding rates: chain length and Theory of folding rates: chain length and “contact order”.“contact order”.