The Kinetics of helix unfolding: Molecular dynamics simulations with Milestoning
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2009-01-02Author
Kuczera, Krzysztof
Jas, Gouri S.
Elber, Ron
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American Chemical Society
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp900407w.
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The unfolding process of a helical heteropeptide is studied by computer simulation in explicit solvent. A combination of a functional optimization to determine the reaction coordinate and short time trajectories between “Milestones” is used to study the kinetic of the unfolding. One hundred unfolding trajectories along three different unfolding pathways are computed between all nearby Milestones providing adequate statistics to compute the overall first passage time. The radius of gyration is smaller for intermediate configurations compared to the initial and final states suggesting that the kinetics (but not the thermodynamics) is sensitive to pressure. The transitions are dominated by local bond rotations (the ψ dihedral angle) that are assisted by significant nonmonotonic fluctuations of nearby torsions. The most effective unfolding pathway is via the N-terminal.
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Kuczera, K., Jas, G. S., & Elber, R. (2009). The kinetics of helix unfolding: Molecular dynamics simulations with Milestoning. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. A, 113(26), 7461–7473. http://doi.org/10.1021/jp900407w
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