Protein multi-scale organization through graph partitioning and robustness analysis: application to the myosin-myosin light chain interaction
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Author(s)
Delmotte, A
Tate, EW
Yaliraki, SN
Barahona, M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Despite the recognized importance of the multi-scale spatio-temporal organization of proteins, most computational tools can only access a limited spectrum of time and spatial scales, thereby ignoring the effects on protein behavior of the intricate coupling between the different scales. Starting from a physico-chemical atomistic network of interactions that encodes the structure of the protein, we introduce a methodology based on multi-scale graph partitioning that can uncover partitions and levels of organization of proteins that span the whole range of scales, revealing biological features occurring at different levels of organization and tracking their effect across scales. Additionally, we introduce a measure of robustness to quantify the relevance of the partitions through the generation of biochemically-motivated surrogate random graph models. We apply the method to four distinct conformations of myosin tail interacting protein, a protein from the molecular motor of the malaria parasite, and study properties that have been experimentally addressed such as the closing mechanism, the presence of conserved clusters, and the identification through computational mutational analysis of key residues for binding.
Date Issued
2011-10-01
Citation
PHYSICAL BIOLOGY, 2011, 8 (5)
ISSN
1478-3975
Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Start Page
055010
Journal / Book Title
PHYSICAL BIOLOGY
Volume
8
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biophysics
NORMAL-MODE ANALYSIS
BIOMOLECULAR SYSTEMS
MOLECULAR MOTOR
DYNAMICS
COMPLEX
INVASION
TAIL
STABILITY
PARASITES
NETWORKS
Coverage Spatial
St Johns Coll, Santa Fe, NM