Molecular Simulations of Cotranslational Protein Folding: Fragment Stabilities, Folding Cooperativity, and Trapping in the Ribosome
Figure 3
A Coupled Synthesis–Folding Simulation of CI2
Snapshots from a typical de novo folding simulation of CI2 in the presence of the ribosome (grey surface). The nascent chain is colored from blue (N-terminus) to red (C-terminus). Snapshots (A–F) are for timepoints 3.6 μs, 4 μs, 6 μs, 6.04 μs, 6.08 μs, and 6.23 μs, respectively; the length of the nascent protein in (A) and (B) is 40 and 44 residues, respectively, in all other panels, it is full length. This figure was prepared with PyMOL [95].