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Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Agata Kranjc
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Tarun Jairaj Narwani

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Plasmodium vivax malaria affects 14 million people each year. Its invasion requires interactions between the parasitic Duffy-binding protein (PvDBP) and the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD1) of the host’s Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC). ECD1 is highly flexible and intrinsically disordered, therefore it can adopt different conformations. We computationally modeled the challenging ECD1 local structure. With T-REMD simulations, we sampled its dynamic behavior and collected its most representative conformations. Our results suggest that most of the DARC ECD1 domain remains in a disordered state during the simulated time. Globular local conformations are found in the analyzed local free-energy minima. These globular conformations share an α-helix spanning residues Ser18 to Ser29 and in many cases they comprise an antiparallel β-sheet, whose β-strands are formed around residues Leu10 and Ala49. The formation of a parallel β-sheet is almost negligible. So far, progress in understanding the mechanisms forming the basis of the P. vivax malaria infection of reticulocytes has been hampered by experimental difficulties, along with a lack of DARC structural information. Our collection of the most probable ECD1 structural conformations will help to advance modeling of the DARC structure and to explore DARC–ECD1 interactions with a range of physiological and pathological ligands.

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hal-04256911 , version 1 (24-10-2023)

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Agata Kranjc, Tarun Jairaj Narwani, Sophie Abby, Alexandre de Brevern. Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, 24 (17), pp.13280. ⟨10.3390/ijms241713280⟩. ⟨hal-04256911⟩
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