Estudiar la especificidad de unión enzimática en la acetilcolinesterasa utilizando una dinámica molecular combinada y

Jeremy Kua1, Yingkai Zhang, J Andrew McCammon

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0365, USA. jkua@mccammon.ucsd.edu

Resumen

La acetilcolinesterasa (AChE) utiliza sus subsitios esteráticos y aniónicos para unirse específicamente a la acetilcolina (ACh). El ajuste inducido en AChE mejora la unión mediante la estabilización de la tríada catalítica y el ajuste de los subsitios.

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