title: Dominant kinetic paths on biomolecular binding-folding energy landscape.
abstract: The identification of kinetic pathways is a central issue in understanding the nature of flexible binding. A new approach is proposed here to study the dynamics of this binding-folding process through the establishment of a path integral framework on the underlying energy landscape. The dominant kinetic paths of binding and folding can be determined and quantified. In this case, the corresponding kinetic paths of binding are shown to be intimately correlated with those of folding and the dynamics becomes quite cooperative. The kinetic time can be obtained through the contributions from the dominant paths and has a U-shape dependence on temperature.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130021, People's Republic of China. jin.wang.1@stonybrook.edu
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Hongyang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Erkang
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D007700:Kinetics; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins