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Medientyp: E-Artikel Titel: Study of the Villin headpiece folding dynamics by combining coarse‐grained Monte Carlo evolution and all‐atom molecular dynamics Beteiligte: De Mori, Giacomo M.S.; Colombo, Giorgio; Micheletti, Cristian Erschienen: Wiley, 2005 Erschienen in: Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics Sprache: Englisch DOI: 10.1002/prot.20313 ISSN: 0887-3585; 1097-0134 Schlagwörter: Molecular Biology ; Biochemistry ; Structural Biology Entstehung: Anmerkungen: Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The folding mechanism of the Villin headpiece (HP36) is studied by means of a novel approach which entails an initial coarse‐grained Monte Carlo (MC) scheme followed by all‐atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in explicit solvent. The MC evolution occurs in a simplified free‐energy landscape and allows an efficient selection of marginally‐compact structures which are taken as viable initial conformations for the MD. The coarse‐grained MC structural representation is connected to the one with atomic resolution through a “fine‐graining” reconstruction algorithm. This two‐stage strategy is used to select and follow the dynamics of seven different unrelated conformations of HP36. In a notable case the MD trajectory rapidly evolves towards the folded state, yielding a typical root‐mean‐square deviation (RMSD) of the core region of only 2.4 Å from the closest NMR model (the typical RMSD over the whole structure being 4.0 Å). The analysis of the various MC‐MD trajectories provides valuable insight into the details of the folding and mis‐folding mechanisms and particularly about the delicate influence of local and nonlocal interactions in steering the folding process. Proteins 2005. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.</jats:p>