論文

査読有り 責任著者
2022年1月12日

Computational prediction of heteromeric protein complex disassembly order using hybrid Monte Carlo/molecular dynamics simulation

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Ikuo Kurisaki
  • ,
  • Shigenori Tanaka

記述言語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1039/D2CP00267A
出版者・発行元
Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})

The physicochemical entity of biological phenomenon in the cell is a network of biochemical reactions and the activity of such a network is regulated by multimeric protein complexes. Mass spectroscopy (MS) experiments and multimeric protein docking simulations based on structural bioinformatics techniques have revealed the molecular-level stoichiometry and static configuration of subcomplexes in their bound forms, then revealing the subcomplex populations and formation orders. Meanwhile, these methodologies are not designed to straightforwardly examine temporal dynamics of multimeric protein assembly and disassembly, essential physicochemical properties to understand functional expression mechanisms of proteins in the biological environment. To address the problem, we had developed an atomistic simulation in the framework of the hybrid Monte Carlo/Molecular Dynamics (hMC/MD) method and succeeded in observing disassembly of homomeric pentamer of the serum amyloid P component protein in experimentally consistent order. In this study, we improved the hMC/MD method to examine disassembly processes of the tryptophan synthase tetramer, a paradigmatic heteromeric protein complex in MS studies. We employed the likelihood-based selection scheme to determine a dissociation-prone subunit pair at each hMC/MD simulation cycle and achieved highly reliable predictions of the disassembly orders with the success rate over 0.9 without <italic>a priori</italic> knowledge of the MS experiments and structural bioinformatics simulations. We similarly succeeded in reliable predictions for the other three tetrameric protein complexes. These achievements indicate the potential availability of our hMC/MD approach as the general purpose methodology to obtain microscopic and physicochemical insights into multimeric protein complex formation.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP00267A
URL
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1101/2022.01.12.476000
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1039/D2CP00267A
  • ORCIDのPut Code : 111804792

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