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Research Articles

Cryptic intermediates and metastable states of proteins as predicted by OneG computational method

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Pages 7899-7914 | Received 02 Sep 2020, Accepted 09 Mar 2021, Published online: 25 Mar 2021
 

Abstract

Understanding structural excursions of proteins under folding conditions is crucial to map energy landscapes of proteins. In the present study, OneG computational tool has been used for analyzing possible existence of cryptic intermediates and metastable states of 26 proteins for which three prerequisite inputs of the OneG such as atomic coordinates of proteins, free energy of unfolding (ΔGU) and free energy of exchange (ΔGHX) determined in the absence of denaturant were available during the course of the study. The veraciousness of the tool on predicting the partially folded states of the proteins has been comprehensively described using experimental data available for 15 of the 26 proteins. Meanwhile, possible existence of partially structured states in the folding pathways of 11 other proteins has also been delineated as predicted by the OneG. In addition to mapping the folding pathways of proteins, the salient merits of the tool on systematically addressing the discrepancy between the ΔGU and the ΔGHX of the proteins have also been dealt.

Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma

Acknowledgements

The author would like to acknowledge the KAHE research grant (KAHE/R-Acad/A1/Seedmoney/8970/2019/) and the DST research grant (SR/FIST/LS-1/2018/187) for the timely scientific supports towards the research works.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest in the manuscript.

Authors contributions

TR collected the data. TS wrote the manuscript, which was revised by both the authors.

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