Conformational Strain Indicated by Ramachandran Angles for the Protein Backbone Is Only Weakly Related to the Flexibility

Ravikumar, A and De Brevern, AG and Srinivasan, N (2021) Conformational Strain Indicated by Ramachandran Angles for the Protein Backbone Is Only Weakly Related to the Flexibility. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry B .

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Abstract

Studies on energy associated with free dipeptides have shown that conformers with unfavorable (�,�) torsion angles have higher energy compared to conformers with favorable (�,�) angles. It is expected that higher energy confers higher dynamics and flexibility to that part of the protein. Here, we explore a potential relationship between conformational strain in a residue due to unfavorable (�,�) angles and its flexibility and dynamics in the context of protein structures. We compared flexibility of strained and relaxed residues, which are recognized based on outlier/allowed and favorable (�,�) angles respectively, using normal-mode analysis (NMA). We also performed in-depth analysis on flexibility and dynamics at catalytic residues in protein kinases, which exhibit different strain status in different kinase structures using NMA and molecular dynamics simulations. We underline that strain of a residue, as defined by backbone torsion angles, is almost unrelated to the flexibility and dynamics associated with it. Even the overall trend observed among all high-resolution structures in which relaxed residues tend to have slightly higher flexibility than strained residues is counterintuitive. Consequently, we propose that identifying strained residues based on (�,�) values is not an effective way to recognize energetic strain in protein structures. © 2021 American Chemical Society.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to American Chemical Society
Keywords:	Enzymes; Torsional stress, Catalytic residue; Conformational strains; High-resolution structures; In-depth analysis; Molecular dynamics simulations; Normal mode analysis; Protein backbone; Protein structures, Molecular dynamics
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2021 05:55
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2021 05:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68749

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