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Sci Rep ; 10(1): 9562, 2020 06 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32533020

RESUMO

Knots are remarkable topological features in nature. The presence of knots in crystallographic structures of proteins have stimulated considerable research to determine the kinetic and thermodynamic consequences of threading a polypeptide chain. By mechanically manipulating MJ0366, a small single domain protein harboring a shallow trefoil knot, we allow the protein to refold from either the knotted or the unknotted denatured state to characterize the free energy profile associated to both folding pathways. By comparing the stability of the native state with reference to the knotted and unknotted denatured state we find that knotting the polypeptide chain of MJ0366 increase the folding energy barrier in a magnitude close to the energy cost of forming a knot randomly in the denatured state. These results support that a protein knot can be formed during a single cooperative step of folding but occurs at the expenses of a large increment on the free energy barrier.


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Dobramento de Proteína , Desdobramento de Proteína , Dicroísmo Circular , Cinética , Methanocaldococcus/química , Modelos Moleculares , Simulação de Dinâmica Molecular , Pinças Ópticas , Conformação Proteica , Desnaturação Proteica , Proteínas Recombinantes/química , Imagem Individual de Molécula , Termodinâmica
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