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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 372-393Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2013.770372
Keywords
protein dynamic personalities; ligand binding; free energy landscape; structure-function relationship; driving force
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB127500]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31160181, 30860011]
- Yunnan province [2007PY22, 2011CI123, 2012Y150]
- foundation for Key Teacher and Postgraduate of Yunnan University [ynuy201140]
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Proteins are dynamic entities in cellular solution with functions governed essentially by their dynamic personalities. We review several dynamics studies on serine protease proteinase K and HIV-1 gp120 envelope glycoprotein to demonstrate the importance of investigating the dynamic behaviors and molecular motions for a complete understanding of their structure-function relationships. Using computer simulations and essential dynamic (ED) analysis approaches, the dynamics data obtained revealed that: (i) proteinase K has highly flexible substrate-binding site, thus supporting the induced-fit or conformational selection mechanism of substrate binding; (ii) Ca2+ removal from proteinase K increases the global conformational flexibility, decreases the local flexibility of substrate-binding region, and does not influence the thermal motion of catalytic triad, thus explaining the experimentally determined decreased thermal stability, reduced substrate affinity, and almost unchanged catalytic activity upon Ca2+ removal; (iii) substrate binding affects the large concerted motions of proteinase K, and the resulting dynamic pocket can be connected to substrate binding, orientation, and product release; (iv) amino acid mutations 375 S/W and 423 I/P of HIV-1 gp120 have distinct effects on molecular motions of gp120, facilitating 375 S/W mutant to assume the CD4-bound conformation, while 423 I/P mutant to prefer for CD4-unliganded state. The mechanisms underlying protein dynamics and protein-ligand binding, including the concept of the free energy landscape (FEL) of the protein-solvent system, how the ruggedness and variability of FEL determine protein's dynamics, and how the three ligand-binding models, the lock-and-key, induced-fit, and conformational selection are rationalized based on the FEL theory are discussed in depth.
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