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  • Title: Class-specific correlations between protein folding rate, structure-derived, and sequence-derived descriptors.
    Author: Kuznetsov IB, Rackovsky S.
    Journal: Proteins; 2004 Feb 01; 54(2):333-41. PubMed ID: 14696195.
    Abstract:
    Small single-domain proteins that fold by simple two-state kinetics have been shown to exhibit a wide variation in their folding rates. It has been proposed that folding mechanisms in these proteins are largely determined by the native-state topology, and a significant correlation between folding rate and measures of the average topological complexity, such as relative contact order (RCO), has been reported. We perform a statistical analysis of folding rate and RCO in all three major structural classes (alpha, beta, and alpha/beta) of small two-state proteins and of RCO in groups of analogous and homologous small single-domain proteins with the same topology. We also study correlation between folding rate and the average physicochemical properties of amino acid sequences in two-state proteins. Our results indicate that 1) helical proteins have statistically distinguishable, class-specific folding rates; 2) RCO accounts for essentially all the variation of folding rate in helical proteins, but for only a part of the variation in beta-sheet-containing proteins; and 3) only a small fraction of the protein topologies studied show a topology-specific RCO. We also report a highly significant correlation between the folding rate and average intrinsic structural propensities of protein sequences. These results suggest that intrinsic structural propensities may be an important determinant of the rate of folding in small two-state proteins.
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