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9. Lecture SS 20005
Optimization, Energy Landscapes, Protein Folding 1
V9: Energy Barriers
Where do energy barriers come from?
Why do reactions have activation barriers?
Different processes are characterized by similar energy barriers that are due to
very different mechanisms.
Effects on energy barriers- Chemical reactions - temperature- protein:ligand association - pH
- protein:protein association - D2O vs. H2O
- protein:membrane association - viscosity- protein:DNA association- during protein folding- time scales of protein dynamics- vesicle budding- virus assembly
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History of Energy Barriers of Chemical Reactions
1834 Faraday: chemical reactions are not instantaneous because there is an
electrical barrier to reaction
1889 Arrhenius: reactions follow Arrhenius law
with an activation barrier Ea.
Bodenstein: reactions occur via a series of elementary steps where bonds break
and form. Bodenstein showed that Arrhenius‘ law is applicable only to
elementary reactions. Overall reactions often show deviations.
1935 Polanyi & Evans: bonds need to stretch during elementary reactions.
The stretching causes a barrier. Bonds also break.
Physical causes of barriers to chemical reactions
bond stretching and distortion
orbital distortion due to Pauli repulsions (not more than 2 electrons may occupy one orbital)
quantum effects
special reactivity of excited states
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Energy Barriers of Chemical Reactions
When chemical bonds need to be „broken“,
- Nuclei need to move only over small distances,
- Electrons need to redistribute „settle down“ in different orbitals Intermediate state has high energy
One can compute the energy barriers by quantum-chemistry methods.
However, these calculations do not explain why the barriers arises.
Chemists like to think in concepts and rules and like to separate these.
How fast can reaction proceed? E.g. within one bond vibration.
Such processes need to be activated.
E.g. bond length should stretch far beyond equilibrium distance.
Is possible by statistical fluctuations and by coupling with other modes (large
energy becomes concentrated in this mode).
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Energy Barriers of Protein:Ligand InteractionStep 1: Protein and Ligand are independently solvated (left picture below)
Step 2: The Ligand may preorganize into its binding conformation (costs usually 3 kcal/mol)
Step 3: The Ligand approaches the binding pocket of the protein.
System partly looses 6 degrees of freedom (CMS of ligand: 3 translation, 3 rotation)
Step 4: The Ligand enters the binding pocket of the protein Waters are displaced from binding pocket.
Sometimes: simultaneous conformational changes of protein/receptor
Receptor
Ligand
Bound and associated H2O
Displaced H2O
No collective modes!
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Steps involved in protein-protein association:
- random diffusion (1) + hydrodynamic interaction
- electrostatic steering (2)
- formation of encounter complex (3)
(Possible: large-scale conformational changes of
one or two proteins)
- dissociation or formation of final complex via TS (4)
Origin of Barrier (4): System partly looses 6 degrees of freedom (CMS: 3 translation, 3 rotation) Desolvation: large surface patches need to be partially cleared from water Induced fit of side chains at interface potential entropy loss
Energy Barriers of Protein:Protein Interaction
Effects of hydrodynamicInteractions:(left) effect of translation(right) effect of rotation
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Energy Barriers of Protein:Membrane Interaction
Membrane surface carries net negative charge (mixture of neutral and anionic
lipids) or has a partially negative character.
Cloud of positive counter ions to compensate membrane charge.
Membrane surface is not well defined and quite dynamic, ondulations.
wikipedia.org
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Energy Barriers of Protein:Membrane Interaction
Neutron scattering: four layers of ordered water molecules
above membrane – also found by MD simulation.
Water layers significantly weaken membrane potential.
Lin, Baker, McCammon, Biophys J, 83, 1374 (2002)
Interaction potential of protein:membranesystems is largely unknown.
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Energy Barriers of Protein:DNA Interaction
DNA backbone carries strong permanent negative charge.
surrounded by cloud of positive ions and coordinating water molecules
Protein must displace this cloud and must form very polar interactions with DNA
backbone.
Spatial distribution functions of water, polyamine atoms and Na+ ions around a CA/GT fragment. View of the minor groove. Data are for systems with 30 diaminopropane2+ (A), 30 putrescine2+ (B), 20 spermidine3+ (C) and 60 Na+ (D), averaging the MD trajectories over 6 ns, with three decamers with three repeated CA/GT fragments in each decamer. Water (oxygen, red; hydrogen, gray) is shown for a particle density >40 p/nm3 (except for the Na/15 system, where this value is 50 p/nm3); Spherical distribution function of the polyamine N+ atoms (blue) and Na+ (yellow) ions are drawn for a density >10 p/nm3; polyamine carbon and hydrogen atoms not shown.
Korolev et al. Nucl Acid Res 31, 5971 (2003)
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Energy Barriers of Protein:DNA Interaction
Recognition shows Faster-than-diffusion paradox (similar to Anfinsen paradox
for protein folding).
Maximal rate achieveable by 3D diffusion: 108 M-1s-1
This would correspond to target location in vivo on a timescale of a few
seconds, when each cell contains several tens of TFs.
However:
Experimentally found (LacI repressor and its operator on DNA): 1010 M-1s-1.
Suggests that dimensionality of the problem changes during the search
process. While searching for its target site, the protein periodically scans the
DNA by sliding along it. This is best done if the TF is only partially folded and
only adopts its folded state when it recognizes ist binding site.
Slutsky, Mirny, Biophys J 87, 4021 (2004)
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Time scales of protein dynamics
Motion Spatial extent (nm)Log10 of characteristic
time (s)
Relative vibration of bonded atoms 0.02 to 0.05 -14 to –13
Elastic vibration of globular region 1 to 2 -12 to –11
Rotation of side chains at surface 0.5 to 1 -11 to –10
Torsional libration of buried groups 0.5 to 1 -14 to –13
Relative motion of different globular regions (hinge bending)
1 to 2 -11 to –7
Rotation of medium-sized side chains in interior
0.5 -4 to 0
Allosteric transitions 0.5 to 4 -5 to 0
Local denaturation 0.5 to 1 -5 to 1
Protein folding ??? -5 to 2
Adapted from http://www.dbbm.fiocruz.br/class/Lecture/d22/kolaskar/ask-11june-4.ppt
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Energy Barriers during protein folding
Peptide chain must organize into particular 3D fold: large entropy loss.
Formation of secondary structure elements formation of hydrogen bonds.
This is almost cancelled by loss of hydrogen bonds with solvent molecules.
Burial of hydrophobic surface free energy gain due to hydrophobic effect.
Charged active site residues must be buried in hydrophobic protein interior
often electrostatically unfavorable
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Vesicle budding (right, above) does not occur
spontaneously: would be too dangerous for cell.
Distorting plane membrane costs deformation energy
binding of coat proteins reduce energy cost and give
natural membrane curvature (right, below).
SNARE proteins help to overcome energy cost for fusion of
membranes.
Energy Barriers during vesicle budding
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Energy Barriers during formation of virus capsid
Many individual particles combine into one larger particle
big loss of translational and rotational degrees of freedom
Much hydrophobic surface gets buried between assembling proteins free energy gain according to hydrophobic effect (primarily solvent entropy)
Electrostatic attraction: probably not very significant for binding affinity but
important for specificity.
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What is the effect of temperature on energy barriers?
In general, higher temperature will enormously speed up activated processes.
However, we often need to consider free energy barriers instead of energy
barriers. The free energy barriers often change considerably with temperature.
E.g. in a MD simulation of a protein at 500K, the protein residues will more
easily overcome individual torsional energy barriers.
But, after a certain time, the whole protein will unfold.
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What is the effect of pH on energy barriers?
At different pH, titratable groups will adopt different protonation states.
e.g. at low pH, Asp and Glu residues will become protonated
salt-bridges (Asp – Lys pairs) in which residues were involved will break up.
proteins unfold at low and high pH.
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What is the effect of D2O on energy barriers?
It is a common strategy to compare the speed of chemical reactions in H2O and
in D2O.
The electronic energy profile of the barrier is the same.
But the deuteriums of D2O have a higher mass than the hydrogens of H2O.
Their zero-point energies are lower they need to overcome a higher
effective energy barrier all chemical reactions involving proton transfer will be
slowed down, typically by a factor of 1.4
This is called the „kinetic isotope effect“ (KIE).
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What is the effect of viscosity on energy barriers?
Adding co-solvents in the solvent to increase the viscosity should, in principle,
slow down conformational transitions.
It is often problematic that the co-solvent will also change the equilibrium, e.g.
between folded and unfolded states of a protein.
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