Theoretical Studies on reactions in biological molecules

生物分子反应的理论研究

基本信息

批准号：
11166247
负责人：
AIDA Misako
金额：
$ 7.36万
依托单位：
Hiroshima University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (A)
财政年份：
1999
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1999 至 2001
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-11166247/
关键词：
ab initio MD method OM MM method hydration energy ab initio MO method hydrogen bonding interaction specific interaction nucleic acid bases 蛋白質水和エネルギー加水分解反応分子動力学法 MM-vib法生体高分子特異的相互作用水クラスター溶液内反応

项目摘要

Structural data of protein-DNA complex show redundancy and flexibility in base-amino acid interactions. To understand the origin of the specificity in protein-DNA recognition, we calculated the interaction free-energy, enthalpy, entropy and minimum energy maps for AT-Asn, GC-Asn, AF-Ser and GC-Ser by means of a set of ab initio force field with extensive conformational sampling. We found that the most preferable interactions in these pairs are stabilized by hydrogen bonding, and are mainly enthalpy-driven. However, minima in the free energy maps are not necessarily the same as minimum energy map or enthalpy maps, doe to the entrppic effect The effect of entropy is important in the case of GC-Asn. Experimentally observed structures of base-amino acid within preferable regions in the calculated free energy maps, where there are many different configurations with similar energy. The full geometry optimization procedure using ab initio molecular orbital method was applied to get the optimal interaction geometries for AT-Asn, GC-Asn, AF-Ser and GC-Ser. We found that mere are various base-amino acid combinations with similar interaction energies. These results suggest that the redundancy and conformational flexibility in the base-amino acid interactions play an important role in the protein-DNA recognition.Using QM/MM method, we showed that the stable structures (local minima) of molecules in the gas phase are different from those in aqueous solution : a local minimum in the gas phase is not minimum structure in the aqueous solution. It is very important to take account of the solvent explicitly in the calculations. We analyzed how molecules change their conformations by initio MD method.

蛋白-DNA复合物的结构数据显示碱基酸相互作用的冗余性和柔韧性。为了了解蛋白质-DNA识别的特异性的起源，我们通过一组具有广泛构象抽样的临时力场，计算了AT-ASN，GC-ASN，AF-SER和GC-SER的相互作用自由能，熵和最小能量图。我们发现，这些对中最优选的相互作用是通过氢键稳定的，主要是焓驱动的。但是，自由能图中的最小值不一定与最小能量图或焓图相同，对熵效应的doe在GC-ASN的情况下至关重要。实验观察到在计算出的自由能图中，在优选区域内的基氨基酸的结构，其中有许多不同的构型具有相似的能量。采用Ab Inti算分子轨道方法的完整几何优化程序，以获取AT-ASN，GC-ASN，AF-SER和GC-SER的最佳相互作用几何形状。我们发现，仅具有相似相互作用能的各种碱基 - 氨基酸组合。这些结果表明，碱性氨基酸相互作用中的冗余和构象柔韧性在蛋白质-DNA识别中起重要作用。使用QM/mm方法，我们表明气相中稳定的结构（局部最小值）与水相中的稳定结构（局部最小值）不同：在气相中，气相中的最小结构不是最小的最低溶液。在计算中明确考虑溶剂非常重要。我们分析了分子如何通过始于MD方法改变其构象。