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Using schematic models to understand the microscopic basis for inverted solubility in $\gamma$D-crystallin

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Pith's one-line read Inverted solubility in γD-crystallin is not the simple hydrophobic effect it was thought to be.

desk verdict A careful, honest computational test of the hydrophobicity story for inverted solubility, but the headline conclusion is more parameter-dependent than the abstract suggests. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.05693 v1 pith:RNQ4SDRZ submitted 2019-08-15 q-bio.BM cond-mat.soft

Irem Altan , Jennifer McManus , Patrick Charbonneau This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords invertedsolubilitygammaD-crystallinP23Tmutationhydrophobiceffectpatchyparticlemodelphasediagramwatersolvationtemperature-dependentpatchinteractions
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The reading

The paper tests a proposed microscopic explanation for inverted solubility in human γD-crystallin, where the P23T mutation makes the crystal melt upon cooling rather than upon heating. The proposed mechanism is that the mutation increases surface hydrophobicity. Measuring five different hydrophobicity scales on available crystal structures, the authors find no consistent or statistically robust increase in hydrophobicity for structures carrying the mutation. They then ask whether a hydrophobic mechanism could still work thermodynamically by building a schematic patchy-particle model with three temperature-dependent patch-energy descriptions: two explicit hydrophobic-effect models and one generic patch-deactivation model. The paper concludes that solubility inversion from the hydrophobic effect is possible only in a narrow parameter window, that microscopic evidence for it in γD-crystallin is weak, and that a generic temperature-deactivated patch remains a viable description.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is a schematic patchy-particle model in which each protein is a hard sphere with a set of adhesive patches whose positions, ranges, and energies are taken from the DBI (inverted-solubility) and DBN (normal-solubility) crystal contacts; Patch 4, which contains residue 23, carries a temperature-dependent energy. Three forms for that temperature dependence are compared: the MLG four-state water model (water in ordered or disordered states in the shell or bulk, with energy and degeneracy parameters from the model), the Wentzel–Gunton linear model, and a tanh-based temperature-(de)activation model. Solubility lines come from equating the fluid chemical potential, obtained from the second virial coefficient, with the crystal chemical potential, obtained from thermodynamic integration from the crystal reference state. The argument's crux is the inversion condition of Eq. (23): the chemical-potential slope is positive, giving inverted solubility, when $\Gamma(\beta) > \varepsilon_{\rm tot}/(2 n_w) - \Delta\varepsilon(1)/2$, where $n_w$ is the number of water molecules solvating Patch 4 and $\Gamma$ collects the temperature derivatives of the water-state entropy and energy. This identity determines the threshold water count and makes the conclusion hinge on $n_w$ and on the water-model degeneracies.

What would settle it

Measure the actual number of water molecules in the first solvation shell around the residue-23 patch (for example by neutron diffraction or by simulations with a more sophisticated water model) and compare it with the model's threshold: if the measured count is below $n_w^* \approx 71$ (or $\approx 35$ for halved patch energies), the hydrophobic-effect scenario is falsified for this protein; if it meets or exceeds the threshold, the scenario remains viable.

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Core claim

On the authors' own terms, the central claim is that the hydrophobic-effect scenario for inverted solubility in γD-crystallin is not supported by the microscopic evidence available. Surface hydrophobicity computed from crystal structures with five different scales does not discernibly increase when residue 23 is mutated to threonine, serine, or valine. In the schematic patchy model, the two hydrophobicity-based potentials produce solubility inversion only when the number of water molecules $n_w$ solvating the residue-23 patch exceeds a threshold set by Eq. (23), $\Gamma(\beta) > \varepsilon_{\rm tot}/(2 n_w) - \Delta\varepsilon(1)/2$. Using the paper's chosen water-model degeneracies this threshold is $n_w^* \approx 71$, above the estimated available count of roughly 43–48; halving the patch energies to match experimental solubility lowers it to $n_w^* \approx 35$, just below that count. The paper therefore concludes that inverted solubility due to hydrophobicity may be possible but requires a fine balance between patch strength and the temperature-dependent contribution, which may explain why the phenomenon is rare. In the generic temperature-deactivated patch model, the inverted-solubility regime is robust to parameter perturbations, and the temperature-dependent interaction has a negligible effect on the liquid-liquid critical point.

Load-bearing premise

The conclusion that hydrophobic support is weak depends on which set of water-state degeneracies is used in the model; with one alternative set, the needed number of water molecules drops below the estimated available count, which would flip the conclusion.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the paper is right, surface hydrophobicity scales provide no consistent microscopic signature for the solubility-inverting P23T mutation, so the earlier dye-binding inference of increased hydrophobicity does not survive scrutiny.
  • Hydrophobic-effect models imply that inverted solubility should be rare, because it appears only when the patch strength, the number of solvating water molecules, and the temperature dependence are finely balanced.
  • The temperature-deactivated patch model reproduces the DBI inverted-solubility regime and remains inverted under 5–10% perturbations of patch energies, so it stays viable as a generic explanation without specifying the microscopic cause.
  • The temperature-dependent Patch 4 interaction leaves the liquid-liquid binodal essentially unchanged ($T_c \approx 1.85$), matching experiments; a closed-loop binodal appears only for Patch 4 energies above $\varepsilon_4 > 36$, far outside estimated error.
  • Because increasing Patch 4 strength lowers DBI solubility, the model predicts that R36S+P23S and R36S+P23V double mutants, if they crystallize with similar contacts, would show inverted solubility ordered by the strength of their residue-23 patch.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because the threshold $n_w^*$ depends on the water-model degeneracies, the paper's 'weak support' verdict is conditional: with the alternative degeneracy set considered in Sec. 4.1, inversion would need only about 18 water molecules, below the estimated 43–48 available, so a hydrophobicity explanation would then be viable.
  • A direct experimental measure of water structure around residue 23—for example neutron diffraction or hydrogen-deuterium exchange—would be a sharper test than hydrophobicity scales, because $n_w$ and its temperature dependence are the physical quantities that decide between the three models.
  • The same fine-balance argument may generalize to other proteins with inverted solubility: the phenomenon should be more likely when a single strong crystal-contact patch is solvated by a large, contiguous hydrophobic area, and less likely when hydrophobic residues are scattered.
  • A testable extension would be to tune $n_w$ experimentally with cosolutes or by mutating nearby residues to alter local water exposure; the model predicts that crossing the $n_w^*$ threshold at fixed patch strength should flip a normal-solubility mutant into an inverted one.
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Summary. The paper investigates whether inverted solubility in human γD-crystallin P23T mutants is caused by increased surface hydrophobicity. It first measures SASA-weighted hydrophobicity with five amino-acid scales in six crystal structures and finds no consistent, statistically significant increase associated with P23T. It then studies a patchy-particle model of the DBI and DBN crystal forms in which Patch 4, containing residue 23, has a temperature-dependent energy given by one of three models: the MLG two-state water model, the Wentzel–Gunton linear model, and a generic temperature-deactivation model. The authors derive an explicit inversion condition, Eq. (23), identify the number of waters n_w needed to invert solubility, compare it to structural estimates of available hydrophobic waters (43–48), and map solubility lines and critical temperatures. They conclude that hydrophobic-effect-driven inversion is possible only in a narrow parameter window and that microscopic support in γD-crystallin is weak, while the generic deactivation model robustly captures the phenomenology and leaves the microscopic cause open.

Significance. If accepted, the paper offers a useful cautionary result: surface-hydrophobicity scales do not support the earlier dye-binding inference, and the hydrophobic scenario requires a fine balance of parameters, helping explain why inverted solubility is rare. The paper is transparent: the analytical derivation of the inversion condition is explicit, the limitations of the ground-state crystal free-energy approximation are stated, and the authors flag the arbitrariness of MLG degeneracies. It also provides specific falsifiable predictions, including the ordering of hypothetical R36S+P23S/P23V double mutants and the absence of closed-loop binodals unless Patch 4 is more than doubled in strength. The main limitation is that the key threshold n_w* is sensitive to parameter choices that the paper itself acknowledges as reasonable, so the headline conclusion is more parameter-dependent than the abstract suggests.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. 4.1, Eq. (23), Figs. 5 and 6] The central conclusion that hydrophobic support is weak depends on a threshold that the paper's own parameter choices straddle. With the Silverstein et al. degeneracies and εtot=60, n_w*≈71 exceeds the estimated 43–48 available hydrophobic waters; with the Shiryayev et al. degeneracies, n_w*≈18; and with the halved patch-energy calibration εtot=30 that Sec. 4.1 calls reasonable, n_w*≈35. Because the halved calibration was introduced to bring computed solubilities into line with experiment, the hydrophobic scenario is quantitatively sufficient under at least one plausible, self-consistent parameter set. The manuscript should either justify a preferred parameter set or soften the abstract's 'weakly supported' claim to 'inconclusive'.
  2. [Sec. 4.1 and Eq. (23)] The inversion condition is stated inconsistently. Eq. (23) reads Γ(β)=εtot/(2nw)−Δε(1)/2, while the text immediately below Eq. (23) states Γ(β)>εtot/(2nw)−Δε(1)/nw. Since the reported n_w* values are derived from this condition, this discrepancy needs to be resolved before the threshold analysis is reliable.
  3. [Sec. 2, Fig. 1] The surface-hydrophobicity comparison draws on crystal structures solved in different lattices, and the Patch 4 SASA is evaluated within the crystal context of each structure. The paper addresses coordinate uncertainty but does not discuss whether the different lattice environments of 1HK0, 4JGF, 2G98, 1H4A, 6ETA and 6ETC bias the comparison of a given surface patch. A brief discussion of this possible bias, or a restriction of the claim to the structures themselves, would strengthen the first pillar of the conclusion.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Fig. 1 caption] The sentence 'Proteins to the left of the black vertical line exhibit normal solubility, and those to the left exhibit inverted solubility' should read '...and those to the right...'.
  2. [Author affiliation] In the affiliations, 'I reland' should be 'Ireland'.
  3. [Eq. (12)] The notation −ε′_4 = ... on the left-hand side is confusing; please define ε′_4 explicitly rather than writing the negative of the patch energy.
  4. [Sec. 4.1] The text contains the LaTeX artifact 'n_w* /greaterorsimilar71'; it should be typeset as n_w* ≳ 71.
  5. [References and data availability] Reference 33 is incomplete ('Schrödinger, LLC'), and the data/SI DOI placeholders 'https://doi.org/10.7924/XXXXXXX' and 'DOI: 10.1021/XXXX' need to be completed before publication.
  6. [Eq. (27)] The integral limits are written awkwardly as '4.5 Å ∫ 3 Å'; please typeset this as an integral from 3 Å to 4.5 Å.

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No significant circularity: the paper's inferences are model-based and not reduced to fitted inputs by construction.

full rationale

The paper makes no disguised fit: the hydrophobic-effect models (MLG and Wentzel-Gunton) are parameterized from literature values and all-atom MD, and the free parameter n_w is scanned against a separately estimated SASA-based water count. Eq. (23) is an analytic threshold derived from the model, not a parameter fitted to the target solubility inversion. The temperature-deactivated patch model (Eq. 13) does encode inversion by construction, since Patch 4 turns off at low temperature, but the paper does not present that model as a first-principles prediction; it explicitly calls it a generic description inherited from the authors' prior work (Ref. 30) and uses it only to probe robustness. The central 'weak support for hydrophobicity' conclusion rests on surface-hydrophobicity measurements (Sec. 2) and on the n_w* threshold; the threshold's sensitivity to MLG degeneracies and to halved patch energies is openly acknowledged in Sec. 4.1 and is a parameter-uncertainty or correctness concern, not circularity. No load-bearing step reduces to a self-citation or to the quantity it claims to predict.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on a coarse-grained model with several input parameters borrowed from molecular dynamics and prior literature. The most consequential are the MLG water-state parameters and the number of water molecules nw, which determine whether the hydrophobic mechanism can invert solubility. The patch energy scale and deactivation temperature are tuned to experimental conditions. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (5)
  • nw (water molecules solvating Patch 4) = 43-48 estimated from SASA; threshold n*>=71 for epsilon_tot=60, n*>=35 for epsilon_tot=30
    Free parameter in the MLG and WG models; its value relative to n* determines whether the hydrophobic scenario inverts solubility.
  • epsilon_tot (DBI total patch energy scale) = 60 kBTref, or 30 after halving to match experimental solubility
    The halving proposed in Ref. 30 changes the required n* from 71 to 35, affecting whether the hydrophobic scenario is viable.
  • MLG water-state parameters = E_ob=-5.82, E_db=-1.69, E_os=-5.90, E_ds=-0.56 kBTref; q_ob=1.5, q_db=30, q_os=1, q_ds=48
    Taken from Silverstein et al.; the paper acknowledges the degeneracies are fairly arbitrary and that Shiryayev et al. values give n* around 18.
  • Wentzel-Gunton Delta_s_w = varied from 0 to -50
    Controls the slope of the patch energy with temperature; larger magnitudes invert solubility.
  • Temperature-deactivation parameters T_a and tau = T_a=1.9, tau=0.05
    Chosen so Patch 4 deactivates near the triple point over roughly 10 K; inversion disappears for tau=0.35.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Each patch in the model corresponds to a crystal contact in DBI or DBN, and only the patch containing residue 23 is temperature-dependent.
    This mapping (Sec. 3.1) assumes the relevant protein-protein interactions are captured by static crystal contacts and that the P23T effect is localized on Patch 4. If other contacts are also temperature-dependent, the inversion thresholds change.
  • domain assumption The fluid equation of state can be truncated at the second virial coefficient, with B3 negligible because triply-bonded triplets cannot form.
    Used in Sec. 3.3 to obtain the fluid chemical potential; the paper bounds |B3| below |B2|^2, but this is an approximation.
  • domain assumption The crystal chemical potential can be approximated by the ground-state energy with all bonds active, so that <U(beta)> is approximately U0(beta), and <dU/dbeta> is approximately dU/dbeta.
    Used in Eqs. (17)-(19); the paper shows the approximation fails in the patch deactivation regime but asserts the DBI solubility line is unaffected because DBI is metastable there.
  • domain assumption The MLG four-state water model and the Silverstein et al. energy and degeneracy values describe the hydrophobic effect around protein patches.
    The threshold n_w* is computed with these parameters; the paper acknowledges the degeneracies are fairly arbitrary and that Shiryayev et al. values give n_w* around 18.
  • domain assumption Hydrophobicity scales (GRAVY, ww, hh, mf, tt) are adequate proxies for the protein-water interactions that set solubility behavior.
    The surface analysis in Sec. 2 uses five scales; the scales disagree on several mutants, so the negative conclusion is only as strong as this proxy assumption.
  • standard math Wertheim's perturbation theory with a hard-sphere reference gives a reliable estimate of the liquid-liquid binodal and critical temperature.
    Used in Sec. 5.2 to compute Tc and the binodal; the paper relies on prior validation of Wertheim theory in patchy systems.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Using schematic models to understand the microscopic basis for inverted solubility in $\gamma$D-crystallin},
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abstract

Inverted solubility--a crystal melting upon cooling--is observed in a handful of proteins, such as carbomonoxy hemoglobin and $\gamma$D-crystallin. In human $\gamma$D-crystallin, the phenomenon is associated with the mutation of the 23$^\mathrm{rd}$ residue, a proline, to a threonine, serine or valine. One proposed microscopic mechanism for this effect entails an increase in hydrophobicity upon mutagenesis. Recent crystal structures of a double mutant that includes the P23T mutation allows for a more careful investigation of this proposal. Here, we first measure the surface hydrophobicity of various mutant structures of this protein and determine that it does not discernibly increase upon the mutating the 23$^\mathrm{rd}$ residue. We then investigate the solubility inversion regime with a schematic patchy particle model that includes one of three models for temperature-dependent patch energies: two of the hydrophobic effect, and a more generic description. We conclude that while solubility inversion due to the hydrophobic effect may be possible, microscopic evidence to support it in $\gamma$D-crystallin is weak. More generally, we find that solubility inversion requires a fine balance between patch strengths and the temperature-dependent contribution, which may explain why inverted solubility is not commonly observed in proteins. In any event, we also find that the temperature-dependent interaction has only a negligible impact on the critical properties of the $\gamma$D-crystallin, in line with previous experimental observations.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Hydrophobicity estimates for different crystal structu [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. For two patches to interact, the relative particle orienta [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Front and back views of the patchy particle model. Blue and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Calculated βµc using thermodynamic integration starting from β = 0.3. The simulation data (black) fully matches the individual Einstein crystal simulations (red data points). Estimates of βµc (blue) become significantly flawed at low temperatures, but because this regi…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The minimum of ξ(β), and hence of βµc, is obtained by the intersection of nw values (black lines) with Γ(β) (the blue curve) as given in Eq. (23). The inset shows the corresponding ξ(β), i.e. the temperature-dependent part of βµc for various nw using model parameters r…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Solubility lines corresponding to different values of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Larger magnitudes of ∆sw invert solubility, whereas ∆sw = −15 results in solubility that only weakly depends on temperature, and ∆sw = −10 (light blue) results in normal solubility. Note that, for the latter case, even though the solubility is not inverted, the solubil…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: (a) Average solubility lines for perturbed parameters. Da [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_8.png]
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: (a) As τ is increased, the DBI solubility line becomes less flat, and eventually inverted solubility is lost (τ = 0.35). (b) Manipulating the sum of DBI patch energies and τ , one can show that it is possible to have a temperature range within which the solubility is a…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The liquid-liquid binodal regions for the temperature-dea [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_10.png]

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