Conformational preferences of the full chicken prion protein in solution and its differences with respect to mammals(758 views) Pietropaolo A, Muccioli L, Zannoni C, Rizzarelli E
Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica ed Inorganica and INSTM, Universita di Bologna, V.le Risorgimento, 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy.
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Catania, V.le A. Doria 6, 1-95125 Catania, Italy
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Conformational preferences of the full chicken prion protein in solution and its differences with respect to mammals
We investigate the conformations of the full chicken prion protein (ChPrP1-267) in solution at neutral pH with molecular dynamics simulations. We focus on the persistence of its secondary structure motifs using a recently proposed protein chirality indicator [A. Pietropaolo et al., Proteins 2008, 70, 667-677]. From this, we find a high rigidity of helix 2 (ChPrP178-195) and of the hexarepeat domain, which is turn rich, and a plasticity of the short beta-sheet, consistent with the available NMR structural details. We also determine the extent of solvation for each residue, revealing local minima for such structured regions. These features hint at a possible origin of the high resistance to proteolysis of the avian prion proteins and of its capability in preventing the aggregation in comparison to mammals.
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