A funneled energy landscape for cytochrome c directly predicts the sequential folding route inferred from hydrogen exchange experiments

AUTOR(ES)

Weinkam, Patrick

FONTE

National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

Proteins fold through a variety of mechanisms. For a given protein, folding routes largely depend on the protein's stability and its native-state geometry, because the landscape is funneled. These ideas are corroborated for cytochrome c by using a coarse-grained topology-based model with a perfect funnel landscape that includes explicit modeling of the heme. The results show the importance of the heme as a nucleation site and explain the observed hydrogen exchange patterns of cytochrome c within the context of energy landscape theory.

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