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Tertiary and Secondary Structure Elasticity of a Six-Ig Titin Chain
Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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2010 (English)In: Biophysical Journal, ISSN 0006-3495, E-ISSN 1542-0086, Vol. 98, no 6, p. 1085-1095Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The protein titin functions as a mechanical spring conferring passive elasticity to muscle. Force spectroscopy studies have shown that titin exhibits several regimes of elasticity. Disordered segments bring about a soft, entropic spring-type elasticity; secondary structures of titin's immunoglobulin-like (Ig-) and fibronectin type III-like (FN-III) domains provide a stiff elasticity. In this study, we demonstrate a third type of elasticity due to tertiary structure and involving domain-domain interaction and reorganization along the titin chain. Through 870 ns of molecular dynamics simulations involving 29,000-635,000 atom systems, the mechanical properties of a six-Ig domain segment of titin (I65-I70), for which a crystallographic structure is available, are probed. The results reveal a soft tertiary structure elasticity. A remarkably accurate statistical mechanical description for this elasticity is derived and applied. Simulations also studied the stiff, secondary structure elasticity of the I65-I70 chain due to the unraveling of its domains and revealed how force propagates along the chain during the secondary structure elasticity response.

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St. Louis, MO, United States: Cell Press , 2010. Vol. 98, no 6, p. 1085-1095
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143667DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.12.4192ISI: 000275842200022PubMedID: 20303866Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-77949648622OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-143667DiVA, id: diva2:1165126
Available from: 2017-12-12 Created: 2017-12-12 Last updated: 2017-12-21Bibliographically approved

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