From evolution to folding of repeat proteins
Repeat proteins are made with tandem copies of similar amino acid stretches that fold into elongated architectures. Due to their symmetry, these proteins constitute excellent model systems to investigate how evolution relates to structure, folding and function. Here, we propose a scheme to map evolutionary information at the sequence level to a coarse-grained model for repeat-protein folding and use it to investigate the folding of thousands of repeat-proteins. We model the energetics by a combination of an inverse Potts model scheme with an explicit mechanistic model of duplications and deletions of repeats to calculate the evolutionary parameters of the system at single residue level. This is used to inform an Ising-like model that allows for the generation of folding curves, apparent domain emergence and occupation of intermediate states that are highly compatible with experimental data in specific case studies. We analyzed the folding of thousands of natural Ankyrin-repeat proteins and found that a multiplicity of folding mechanisms are possible. Fully cooperative all-or-none transition are obtained for arrays with enough sequence-similar elements and strong interactions between them, while non-cooperative element-by-element intermittent folding arose if the elements are dissimilar and the interactions between them are energetically weak. In between, we characterised nucleation-propagation and multi-domain folding mechanisms. Finally, we showed that stability and cooperativity of a repeat-array can be quantitatively predicted from a simple energy score, paving the way for guiding protein folding design with a co-evolutionary model.
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