点突变对酶活性的影响:蛋白质电子结构和运动之间的相关性在 chorismate 突变酶反应中
1Research Institute for Computational Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba 305-8568, Japan. toyokazu.ishida@aist.go.jp
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 30, 2010
概括
预测酶功能是一个挑战. 这项研究揭示了突变影响蛋白质动力学和稳定过渡状态,即使活动减少,提供了对酶工程的见解.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 计算生物学 计算生物学
- 酶动力学 酶动力学
背景情况:
- 了解酶的功能需要对催化残留物赋予作用.
- 由于突变诱导的副作用,难以预测突变酶活性.
- 解释突变发生的实验是复杂的,因为固态和静电的影响.
研究的目的:
- 使用计算方法系统地分析点突变对酶功能的影响.
- 研究突变如何影响蛋白质动态和催化活性.
- 阐明过渡状态稳定在酶催化中的作用.
主要方法:
- 一开始的量子力学/分子力学 (QM/MM) 计算分析.
- 分子动力学 (MD) 和自由能量扰动 (FEP) 模拟.
- 在整个蛋白质矩阵上进行全电子量子力学 (QM) 计算.
- 野生类型和突变型chorismate mutase的自由能量概况.
主要成果:
- 突变诱导的几何变化通常是局部化的,但可以影响全球蛋白质动态.
- 构造性修改和活性部位重组可以稳定过渡状态,即使在低活性突变中也是如此.
- 野生类型的chorismate突变酶通过静电相互作用优化稳定基质过渡状态.
- 蛋白质结构的灵活性允许调制转变状态稳定的形状.
结论:
- 点突变可以改变酶动力学,并通过构造变化稳定过渡状态.
- 酶的活性部位对外部静电扰动具有强大耐受性.
- 计算式QM/MM和MD-FEP方法提供了对酶催化物的突变影响的可靠见解.
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