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  • Title: Motions of the SecA protein motor bound to signal peptide: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations.
    Author: Milenkovic S, Bondar AN.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr; 2018 Feb; 1860(2):416-427. PubMed ID: 29128311.
    Abstract:
    SecA is an essential part of the Sec pathway for protein secretion in bacteria. In this pathway, SecA interacts with the N-terminal fragment of the secretory protein - the signal peptide, and couples binding and hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate with movement of the secretory protein across the SecY protein translocon. How interactions with the signal peptide alter the conformational dynamics and long-distance conformational couplings of SecA is a key open question that we address here with molecular dynamics techniques. Analyses of protein motions indicate that the signal peptide alters SecA dynamics not only at the site where this peptide binds, but also at a nucleotide-binding domain. Hydrogen bond clusters contribute to the long-distance propagation of changes in SecA dynamics.
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