Position-, disorder-, and salt-dependent diffusion in binding-coupled-folding of intrinsically disordered proteins
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Position-, disorder-, and salt-dependent diffusion in binding-coupled-folding of intrinsically disordered proteins
Abstract
Successful extensions of protein-folding energy landscape theory to intrinsically disordered proteins' (IDPs') binding-coupled-folding transition can enormously simplify this biomolecular process into diffusion along a limited number of reaction coordinates, and the dynamics subsequently is described by Kramers' rate theory. As the critical pre-factor, the diffusion coefficient D has direct implications on the binding kinetics. Here, we employ a structure-based model (SBM) to calculate D in the binding-folding of an IDP prototype. We identify a strong position-dependent D during binding by applying a reaction coordinate that directly measures the fluctuations in a Cartesian configuration space. Using the malleability of the SBM, we modulate the degree of conformational disorder in an isolated IDP and determine complex effects of intrinsic disorder on D varying for different binding stages. Here, D tends to increase with disorder during initial binding but shows a non-monotonic relationship with disorder in terms of a decrease-followed-by-increase in D during the late binding stage. The salt concentration, which correlates with electrostatic interactions via Debye-Hückel theory in our SBM, also modulates D in a stepwise way. The speeding up of diffusion by electrostatic interactions is observed during the formation of the encounter complex at the beginning of binding, while the last diffusive binding dynamics is hindered by non-native salt bridges. Because D describes the diffusive speed locally, which implicitly reflects the roughness of the energy landscape, we are eventually able to portray the binding energy landscape, including that from IDPs' binding, then to binding with partial folding, and finally to rigid docking, as well as that under different environmental salt concentrations. Our theoretical results provide key mechanistic insights into IDPs' binding-folding, which is internally conformation- and externally salt-controlled with respect to diffusion.
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