A "Tug of War" Maintains a Dynamic Protein-Membrane Complex : Molecular Dynamics Simulations of C-Raf RBD-CRD Bound to K-Ras4B at an Anionic Membrane

Association of Raf kinase with activated Ras triggers downstream signaling cascades toward regulating transcription in the cells' nucleus. Dysregulation of Ras-Raf signaling stimulates cancers. We investigate the C-Raf RBD and CRD regions when bound to oncogenic K-Ras4B at the membrane. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations suggest that the membrane plays an integral role in regulating the configurational ensemble of the complex. Remarkably, the complex samples a few states dynamically, reflecting a competition between C-Raf CRD- and K-Ras4B- membrane interactions. This competition arises because the interaction between the RBD and K-Ras is strong while the linker between the RBD and CRD is short. Such a mechanism maintains a modest binding for the overall complex at the membrane and is expected to facilitate fast signaling processes. Competition of protein-membrane contacts is likely a common mechanism for other multiprotein complexes, if not multidomain proteins at membranes.

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2018

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2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:4

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ACS central science - 4(2018), 2 vom: 28. Feb., Seite 298-305

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Englisch

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Li, Zhen-Lu [VerfasserIn]
Prakash, Priyanka [VerfasserIn]
Buck, Matthias [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 01.10.2020

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10.1021/acscentsci.7b00593

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NLM281884595