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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Volume 40, Issue 5, Pages 1276-1284Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ci000449b
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM55362] Funding Source: Medline
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Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a group of structurally very diverse proteins with the unique capability of binding to the surface of seed ice crystals and inhibiting ice crystal growth. The AFPs bind with high affinity to specific planes of the ice crystal. Previously, this affinity of AFPs has been ascribed to the formation of multiple hydrogen bonds across the protein-ice interface, but more recently van der Waals interactions have been suggested to be the dominant energetic factors for the adsorption. To determine whether van der Waals interactions are also responsible for the binding specificities of AFPs, the protein-ice interaction of the helical AFP Type I from winter flounder (HPLC6) was studied using a Monte Carlo rigid body docking approach. HPLC6 binds in the {1 (1) over bar 0 (2) over bar} direction of the [20 (2) over bar 1] plane, with the Thr-Ala-Asn surface comprising the protein's binding face. The binding of HPLC6 to this ice plane is highly preferred, but the protein is also found to bind favorably to the [10 (1) over bar 0] prism plane using a different protein surface comprised of Thr and Ala residues. The results show that van der Waals interactions, despite accounting for most of the intermolecular energy (>80%), are not sufficient to completely explain the AFP binding specificity.
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