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Encapsulation of myoglobin in a cetyl trimethylammonium bromide micelle in vacuo: a simulation study
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Biology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. (Van der Spoel)
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Biology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Computational and Systems Biology. (Van der Spoel)
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Biology, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Computational and Systems Biology. (Van der Spoel)
2009 (English)In: Biochemistry, ISSN 0006-2960, E-ISSN 1520-4995, Vol. 48, no 5, p. 1006-1015Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A recently published paper describes encapsulation of myoglobin into cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) micelles by electrospray ionization followed by detection using mass spectrometry [Sharon, M., et al. (2007) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 8740-8746]. Here we present molecular dynamics simulations aimed at elucidating the structural transitions that accompany the encapsulation and dehydration processes. Myoglobin associates with CTAB surfactants in solution, but no complete reverse micelle is formed. Upon removal of most of the water and exposure of the system to vacuum, a stable protein-surfactant reverse micelle forms. The surfactants shield the protein to a large extent from dehydration-related conformational changes, in the same manner that a water shell does, as previously described by Patriksson et al. [(2007) Biochemistry 46, 933-945]. Solvated CTAB micelles undergo a rapid inversion when transported to the gas phase and form very stable reverse micelles, independent of the amount of water present.

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2009. Vol. 48, no 5, p. 1006-1015
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Natural Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-104076DOI: 10.1021/bi801952fISI: 000263047900022PubMedID: 19154126OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-104076DiVA, id: diva2:219349
Available from: 2009-05-27 Created: 2009-05-27 Last updated: 2017-12-13Bibliographically approved
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1. Exploring the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Viruses
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Exploring the Molecular Dynamics of Proteins and Viruses
2012 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Knowledge about structure and dynamics of the important biological macromolecules — proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and sugars — helps to understand their function. Atomic-resolution structures of macromolecules are routinely captured with X-ray crystallography and other techniques. In this thesis, simulations are used to explore the dynamics of the molecules beyond the static structures.

Viruses are machines constructed from macromolecules. Crystal structures of them reveal little to no information about their genomes. In simulations of empty capsids, we observed a correlation between the spatial distribution of chloride ions in the solution and the position of RNA in crystals of satellite tobacco necrosis virus (STNV) and satellite tobacco mosaic virus (STMV). In this manner, structural features of the non-symmetric RNA could also be inferred.

The capsid of STNV binds calcium ions on the icosahedral symmetry axes. The release of these ions controls the activation of the virus particle upon infection. Our simulations reproduced the swelling of the capsid upon removal of the ions and we quantified the water permeability of the capsid. The structure and dynamics of the expanded capsid suggest that the disassembly is initiated at the 3-fold symmetry axis.

Several experimental methods require biomolecular samples to be injected into vacuum, such as mass-spectrometry and diffractive imaging of single particles. It is therefore important to understand how proteins and molecule-complexes respond to being aerosolized. In simulations we mimicked the dehydration process upon going from solution into the gas phase. We find that two important factors for structural stability of proteins are the temperature and the level of residual hydration. The simulations support experimental claims that membrane proteins can be protected by a lipid micelle and that a non-membrane protein could be stabilized in a reverse micelle in the gas phase. A water-layer around virus particles would impede the signal in diffractive experiments, but our calculations estimate that it should be possible to determine the orientation of the particle in individual images, which is a prerequisite for three-dimensional reconstruction.

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Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2012. p. 45
Series
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, ISSN 1651-6214 ; 919
Keywords
molecular dynamics, virus dynamics, capsid dissolution, satellite tobacco necrosis virus, satellite tobacco mosaic virus, virus genome structure, gas phase protein structure, water layer, micelle embedded protein, membrane protein
National Category
Biological Sciences Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Biophysics Structural Biology
Research subject
Chemistry with specialization in Biophysics
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urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-172284 (URN)978-91-554-8335-7 (ISBN)
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2012-05-25, B41, Uppsala Biomedicinska Centrum, Husargatan 3, Uppsala, 09:15 (English)
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BMC B41, 25/5, 9:15Available from: 2012-05-04 Created: 2012-04-03 Last updated: 2012-08-01Bibliographically approved

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