The role of electrostatic interactions in the process of diffusional encounter and docking of electron transport proteins
- Authors: Kovalenko I.B.1, Khrushchev S.S.1, Fedorov V.A.1, Riznichenko G.Y.1, Rubin A.B.1
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Affiliations:
- Biological Faculty
- Issue: Vol 468, No 1 (2016)
- Pages: 183-186
- Section: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1607-6729/article/view/211207
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1607672916030066
- ID: 211207
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Abstract
Electrostatic interaction of plastocyanin and cytochrome f in the process of protein–protein complex formation was investigated by computer simulation methods. It was shown that long-range electrostatic interaction promotes energetically favorable mutual orientation of protein molecules at distances between their cofactors shorter than 5 nm. At distances shorter than 3 nm, these electrostatic interactions lead to a significantly detectable increase in the rate of convergence of the cofactors.
About the authors
I. B. Kovalenko
Biological Faculty
Author for correspondence.
Email: ikovalenko78@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
S. S. Khrushchev
Biological Faculty
Email: ikovalenko78@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
V. A. Fedorov
Biological Faculty
Email: ikovalenko78@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
G. Yu. Riznichenko
Biological Faculty
Email: ikovalenko78@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
A. B. Rubin
Biological Faculty
Email: ikovalenko78@gmail.com
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991
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