Abstract
We have investigated the folding of two helix-bundle proteins, 36-residue Villin headpiece and 56-residue E-domain of Staphylococcal protein A, by combining molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with Coarse-Grained United-Residue (UNRES) Force Field and all-atom force field. Starting from extended structures, each of the proteins was folded to a stable structure within a short time frame using the UNRES model. However, the secondary structures of helices were not well formed. Further refinement using MD simulations with the all-atom force field was able to fold the protein structure into the native-like state with the smallest main-chain root-mean-square deviation of around 3 Å. Detailed analysis of the folding trajectories was presented and the performance of GPU-based MD simulations was also discussed.
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