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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 85, Issue 4, Pages 2267-2272Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74651-7
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The dynamics of ligand movement through the constricted region of the acetylcholinesterase gorge is important in understanding how the ligand gains access to and is released from the active site of the enzyme. Molecular dynamics simulations of the simple ligand, tetramethylammonium, crossing this bottleneck region are conducted using umbrella potential sampling and activated flux techniques. The low potential of mean force obtained is consistent with the fast reaction rate of acetylcholinesterase observed experimentally. From the results of the activated dynamics simulations, local conformational fluctuations of the gorge residues and larger scale collective motions of the protein are found to correlate highly with the ligand crossing.
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