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Environmental Fluctuations and Stochastic Resonance in Protein Folding
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Dave K
; Davtyan A
; Papoian GA
; Gruebele M
; Platkov M
Chemphyschem
2016[May]; 17
(9
): 1341-8
PMID26711088
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Stochastic resonance is a mechanism whereby a weak signal becomes detectable
through the addition of noise. It is common in many macroscopic biological
phenomena, but here we ask whether it can be observed in a microscopic biological
phenomenon, protein folding. We investigate the folding kinetics of the protein
VlsE, with a folding relaxation time of about 0.7?seconds at 38?°C in vitro.
First we show that the VlsE unfolding/refolding reaction can be driven by a
periodic thermal excitation above the reaction threshold. We detect the reaction
by fluorescence from FRET labels on VlSE and show that accurate rate coefficients
and activation barriers can be obtained from modulated kinetics. Then we weaken
the periodic temperature modulation below the reaction threshold, and show that
addition of artificial thermal noise speeds up the reaction from an undetectable
to a detectable rate. We observe a maximum in the recovered signal as a function
of thermal noise, a stochastic resonance. Simulation of a small model-protein,
analysis in an accompanying theory paper, and our experimental result here all
show that correlated noise is a physically and chemically plausible mechanism by
which cells could modulate biomolecular dynamics during threshold processes such
as signaling.