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  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Computational Biology
  • Protein Engineering

Background:

  • Enzyme amino acid sequences at ligand-binding sites are evolutionarily refined for specific reactions.
  • The native conformation of enzyme-ligand complexes exhibits lower free energy than alternative conformations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a combined energy function for enzyme design.
  • To assess the function's ability to recapitulate native enzyme sequences at ligand-binding interfaces.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a combined energy function incorporating orientation-dependent hydrogen bonding and a generalized Born model.
  • Augmented the function with a surface-area based hydrophobic contribution.
  • Evaluated the function on 10 enzyme-ligand complexes using protein design frameworks and mixed-integer linear programming.

Main Results:

  • The energy function correctly predicted, on average, 78% of amino acids in minimum-energy sequences and 84% in most-similar sequences.
  • Correct hydrogen bond geometries at enzyme-ligand interfaces were typically recovered.
  • Calculated binding energies effectively distinguished active sequences from alternative ones.

Conclusions:

  • The developed energy function shows significant promise for accurate enzyme sequence prediction in protein design.
  • This approach aids in understanding evolutionary optimization at enzyme-ligand binding interfaces.
  • The method can discriminate functional enzyme sequences from non-functional alternatives.