화학공학소재연구정보센터
Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.427, No.4-6, 414-417, 2006
Diversity in free energy landscape and folding pathway of proteins with the same native topology
To elucidate the role of relative stability of subdomains in folding processes of multi-domain proteins, we have studied a free-energy landscape of c-type lysozyme by Monte Carlo simulations using a realistic lattice model with a Go-like interaction. By varying the relative interaction strength of two subdomains as a parameter, we obtained a variety of the free-energy landscapes. Experimentally-observed diversity in folding processes of c-type lysozymes can then be described by this Go-like model with only one variable parameter. The result demonstrates that folding of multi-domain proteins can be understood in the framework of the energy landscape theory. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.