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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages 473-489Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75715-3
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Two molecular dynamics simulations have been carried out on the HIV-1 integrase catalytic core starting from fully determined crystal structures. During the first one, performed in the absence of divalent cation (6-ns long), the catalytic core took on two main conformations. The conformational transition occurs at approximately 3.4 ns. In contrast, during the second one, in the presence of Mg2+ (4-ns long), there were no such changes. The molecular dynamics simulations were used to compute the fluorescence intensity decays emitted by the four tryptophan residues considered as the only chromophores. The decay was computed by following, frame by frame, the amount of chromophores that remained excited at a certain time after light absorption. The simulation took into account the quenching through electron transfer to the peptide bond and the fluorescence resonance energy transfer between the chromophores. The fit to the experimental intensity decays obtained at 5 degreesC and at 30 degreesC is very good. The fluorescence anisotropy decays were also simulated. Interestingly, the fit to the experimental anisotropy decay was excellent at 5 degreesC and rather poor at 30 degreesC. Various hypotheses such as dimerization and abnormal increase of uncorrelated internal motions are discussed.
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