Monomer, dimer, and steered simulations of actin homologs

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Abstract: The actin family of cytoskeletal proteins is essential to the physiology of virtually all archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. While X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy have revealed structural homologies among actin-family proteins, these techniques cannot probe molecular-scale conformational dynamics. Here, we use long-time scale, all-atom molecular dynamic simulations to reveal conserved dynamical behaviors in four prokaryotic actin homologs: MreB, FtsA, ParM, and crenactin. Simulations used for this study provide molecular-scale insights into the nucleotide and polymerization dependencies of the structure of prokaryotic actins, suggesting mechanisms for how these structural features are linked to their diverse functions.

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Date created	August 2015 - June 2017

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/cm430hn3276

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Preferred Citation: Kerwyn Huang, Natalie Ng, Handuo Shi, and Alexandre Colavin. (2017). Monomer, dimer, and steered simulations of actin homologs. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/cm430hn3276

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