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Gas Phase Protein Folding Triggered By Proton Stripping Generates Inside-Out Structures: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study., Alexander I M Sever, Lars Konermann
Gas Phase Protein Folding Triggered By Proton Stripping Generates Inside-Out Structures: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study., Alexander I M Sever, Lars Konermann
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The properties of electrosprayed protein ions continue to be enigmatic, owing to the absence of high-resolution structure determination methods in the gas phase. There is considerable evidence that under properly optimized conditions these ions preserve solution-like conformations and interactions. However, it is unlikely that these solution-like conformers represent the "intrinsic" structural preferences of gaseous proteins. In an effort to uncover what such intrinsically preferred conformers might look like, we performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of gaseous ubiquitin. Our work was inspired by recent gas phase experiments, where highly extended 13+ ubiquitin ions were transformed to compact 3+ species by proton …