Abstract
Proteins such as the transcription factor RfaH can change biological function by switching between distinct three-dimensional folds. RfaH regulates transcription if the C-terminal domain folds into a double helix bundle, and promotes translation when this domain assumes a β-barrel form. This fold-switch has been also observed for the isolated domain, dubbed by us RfaH-CTD, and is studied here with a variant of the RET approach recently introduced by us. We use the enhanced sampling properties of this technique to map the free energy landscape of RfaH-CTD and to propose a mechanism for the conversion process.
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Posted November 17, 2017.
