It has been suggested that the number and strength of local contacts are the major factors governing conformation accessibility of model two ground-state polypeptide chains. This phenomenology has been posed as a possible factor influencing prion folding. To test this conjecture, recurrence quantification analysis was applied to two model 36mers, and the Syrian hamster prion protein. A unique divergence of the radius function for the recurrence quantification variable %DET of hydrophobicity patterns was observed for both 36mers, and in a critical region of the hamster prion protein, This divergence suggests a partition between strong short- and long-range hydrophobicity patterns, and may be an important factor in prion phenomenology, along with other global thermodynamic factors.
The role of hydrophobicity patterns in prion folding as revealed by recurrence quantification analysis of primary structure / J. P., Zbilut; C. L., Webber; Colosimo, Alfredo; A., Giuliani. - In: PROTEIN ENGINEERING. - ISSN 0269-2139. - STAMPA. - 13:2(2000), pp. 99-104. [10.1093/protein/13.2.99]
The role of hydrophobicity patterns in prion folding as revealed by recurrence quantification analysis of primary structure
COLOSIMO, Alfredo;
2000
Abstract
It has been suggested that the number and strength of local contacts are the major factors governing conformation accessibility of model two ground-state polypeptide chains. This phenomenology has been posed as a possible factor influencing prion folding. To test this conjecture, recurrence quantification analysis was applied to two model 36mers, and the Syrian hamster prion protein. A unique divergence of the radius function for the recurrence quantification variable %DET of hydrophobicity patterns was observed for both 36mers, and in a critical region of the hamster prion protein, This divergence suggests a partition between strong short- and long-range hydrophobicity patterns, and may be an important factor in prion phenomenology, along with other global thermodynamic factors.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.