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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/73333

Deciphering hierarchical features in the energy landscape of adenylate kinase folding/unfolding

英語

2018-03-28

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Journal of chemical physics

148(12)

123325

Hierarchical features of the energy landscape of the folding/unfolding behavior of adenylate kinase, including its dependence on denaturant concentration, are elucidated in terms of single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) measurements in which the proteins are encapsulated in a lipid vesicle. The core in constructing the energy landscape from single-molecule time-series across different denaturant concentrations is the application of rate-distortion theory (RDT), which naturally considers the effects of measurement noise and sampling error, in combination with change-point detection and the quantification of the FRET efficiency-dependent photobleaching behavior. Energy landscapes are constructed as a function of observation time scale, revealing multiple partially folded conformations at small time scales that are situated in a superbasin. As the time scale increases, these denatured states merge into a single basin, demonstrating the coarse-graining of the energy landscape as observation time increases. Because the photobleaching time scale is dependent on the conformational state of the protein, possible nonequilibrium features are discussed, and a statistical test for violation of the detailed balance condition is developed based on the state sequences arising from the RDT framework. Published by AIP Publishing.

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The following article appeared in J. Nicholas Taylor, Menahem Pirchi, Gilad Haran, and Tamiki Komatsuzaki. Deciphering hierarchical features in the energy landscape of adenylate kinase folding/unfolding. The Journal of Chemical Physics 148, 123325 (2018) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5016487 .

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