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Molecular dynamics study of natural existing cavity couplings in proteins

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119978

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Couplings between protein sub-structures are a common property of protein dynamics. Some of these couplings are especially interesting since they relate to function and its regu- lation. In this article we have studied the case of cavity couplings because cavities can host functional sites, allosteric sites, and are the locus of interactions with the cell milieu. We have divided this problem into two parts. In the first part, we have explored the presence of cavity couplings in the natural dynamics of 75 proteins, using 20 ns molecular dynamics simulations. For each of these proteins, we have obtained two trajectories around their na- tive state. After applying a stringent filtering procedure, we found significant cavity correla- tions in 60% of the proteins. We analyze and discuss the structure origins of these correlations, including neighbourhood, cavity distance, etc. In the second part of our study, we have used longer simulations ( 100ns) from the MoDEL project, to obtain a broader view of cavity couplings, particularly about their dependence on time. Using moving window computations we explored the fluctuations of cavity couplings along time, finding that these couplings could fluctuate substantially during the trajectory, reaching in several cases corre- lations above 0.25/0.5. In summary, we describe the structural origin and the variations with time of cavity couplings. We complete our work with a brief discussion of the biological impli- cations of these results.

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Dinàmica molecular, Calci, Proteïnes

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Molecular dynamics, Calcium, Proteins

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Articles publicats en revistes (Bioquímica i Biomedicina Molecular)
Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona))

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BARBANY, Montserrat, et al. Molecular dynamics study of natural existing cavity couplings in proteins. PLoS One. 2015. Vol. 10, num. 3, pags. e0119978. ISSN 1932-6203. [consulted: 10 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/104348

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