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Protein WISDOM: A Workbench for In silico De novo Design of BioMolecules
Published on: July 25, 2013
Diseño coordinado de estructuras de cofactores y sitios activos en el desarrollo de nuevos catalizadores de proteínas
Takafumi Ueno1, Tomomi Koshiyama, Masataka Ohashi
1Research Center for Materials Science and Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 5, 2005
Resumen
Los investigadores desarrollaron nuevas metalloenzimas artificiales mediante la determinación de estructuras cristalinas de complejos metálicos dentro de la apo-mioglobina. Este avance permite un control preciso de la enantioselectividad en las reacciones biocatalíticas a través del diseño del sitio activo.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
- Biología Estructural Biología estructural.
- La catálisis de la catálisis.
Sus antecedentes:
- Las metaloenzimas artificiales son cruciales para los nuevos biocatalizadores y biomateriales.
- Los métodos de síntesis anteriores carecían de información estructural, lo que dificultaba las mejoras en la reactividad.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para determinar las estructuras cristalinas de M(III) ((Schiff base).apo-A71GMbs (M = Cr y Mn).
- Comprender cómo el posicionamiento del complejo metálico en la apo-mioglobina (apo-Mb) afecta la reactividad.
- Para controlar la enantioselectividad en las reacciones enzimáticas a través de la ingeniería del sitio activo.
Principales métodos:
- Cristalografía para determinar las estructuras de M(III) ((Base de navegación).apo-A71GMbs.
- Análisis de las interacciones no covalentes y la ligadura de iones metálicos dentro del sitio activo apo-Mb.
- Modificación de los sustituyentes de ligando de base de Schiff para controlar la enantioselectividad.
Principales resultados:
- Las estructuras cristalinas revelaron el posicionamiento del complejo metálico regulado por las interacciones de péptidos y la ligadura de histidina.
- Las interacciones específicas entre Ile107 y los sustituyentes de ligando dictan la ubicación del ligando de la base de Schiff.
- La enantioselectividad en la sulfoxidación del tioanisole se controló con éxito mediante la alteración de los sustituyentes del ligando.
Conclusiones:
- El diseño del sitio activo de la proteína, específicamente la modificación del complejo metálico, puede controlar con precisión la enantioselectividad enzimática.
- Este estudio proporciona el primer ejemplo de reacciones enzimáticas enantioselectivas reguladas por complejos metálicos diseñados dentro de un sitio activo de proteína.
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