A potential molecular switch in an α‐helical coiled coil
Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics2007Vol. 70(1), pp. 25–30
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Abstract
The yeast DNA-binding protein GCN4 forms a homo-dimer through a self-complementary coiled-coil interface. In this article, we describe how such coiled-coils might be bistable and, through Molecular Dynamics computations on the GCN4 coiled coil, we show that the coiled coil can indeed switch between the two states by a pathway in which there is a progressive "flipping" of consecutive steps along the interface. We discuss the general implications of potentially bistable coiled-coil interfaces for allosteric signal-transmission mechanisms along homo-dimeric coiled coils and for the packing of helices in globular proteins.
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