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Phosphoserine Charge State Drives Ion Condensation and Spatial Polyamine Presentation in Multirepeat Silaffin
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Diatom silaffins direct silica biomineralization through heavily post-translationally modified repeat domains, yet how these modifications reshape the multirepeat conformational ensemble remains unknown. We report all-atom MD simulations of a 195-residue construct spanning repeats R1–R7 of Sil1p from Cylindrotheca fusiformis, carrying the full complement of native PTMs: phosphoserine (pSer), long-chain polyamines (LCPA), dimethyllysine (MLY), and trimethylhydroxylysine phosphate (TPL). We simulated three variants (Native, P1/singly deprotonated phosphate, and P2/doubly deprotonated phosphate) at two NaCl concentrations in triplicate for 500 ns each. All systems disorder from the AlphaFold 3 starting structure. Phosphate charge state, not ionic strength, is the dominant control of ensemble compaction and ion organization. Doubly deprotonated phosphate organizes an extensive Na+ condensation shell (∼100 ions, 20% of box Na+) and a heterogeneous bridging network that integrates both pSer and TPL phosphate groups. The resulting ensemble is compact with LCPA side chains exhibiting above-median solvent accessibility in 84% of simulation frames in P2 at 300 mM. This is higher than any other condition we simulated and indicates that polyamine groups are preferentially surface-presented in the most compact, ion-organized state. A charge-neutralization control confirms that this compact state is a structured intermediate maintained by the bridging network, not a simple collapsed globule. This repeat-scale spatial organization is not captured by single-repeat peptide studies. Understanding the dynamics, mechanism, and spatial organization of PTM-rich silaffin at the repeat scale is a step closer to hierarchical biomimetic materials beyond simple silica morphologies.
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Amines
Ions
Peptides and proteins
Phosphates
Silica
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