期刊
QUARTERLY REVIEWS OF BIOPHYSICS
卷 48, 期 4, 页码 395-403出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583515000050
关键词
rotary-chemical surface; F0F1-ATP synthase; bioenergetics; conformational surface
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资金
- National Science Foundation [MCB-1243719]
- National Institute of Health [R01-AI055926]
- National Cancer Institute [1U19CA105010]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1243719] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Detailed understanding of the action of biological molecular machines must overcome the challenge of gaining a clear knowledge of the corresponding free-energy landscape. An example for this is the elucidation of the nature of converting chemical energy to torque and work in the rotary molecular motor of F-1-ATPase. A major part of the challenge involves understanding the rotary-chemical coupling from a non-phenomenological structure/energy description. Here we focused on using a coarse-grained model of F-1-ATPase to generate a structure-based free-energy landscape of the rotary-chemical process of the whole system. In particular, we concentrated on exploring the possible impact of the position of the catalytic dwell on the efficiency and torque generation of the molecular machine. It was found that the experimentally observed torque can be reproduced with landscapes that have different positions for the catalytic dwell on the rotary-chemical surface. Thus, although the catalysis is undeniably required for torque generation, the experimentally observed position of the catalytic dwell at 80 degrees might not have a clear advantage for the force generation by F-1-ATPase. This further implies that the rotary-chemical couplings in these biological motors are quite robust and their efficiencies do not depend explicitly on the position of the catalytic dwells. Rather, the specific positioning of the dwells with respect to the rotational angle is a characteristic arising due to the structural construct of the molecular machine and might not bear any clear connection to the thermodynamic efficiency for the system.
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