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Analyzing the driving forces of insulin stability in the basic amino acid solutions: A perspective from hydration dynamics

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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 154, 期 8, 页码 -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0038305

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  1. Science and Engineering Research Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India [EMR/2017/001325]
  2. SERB
  3. NIT Rourkela
  4. [SB/FT/CS-065/2012]
  5. [37(2)/20/19/2017-BRNS/37216]

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Amino acids with basic side chains are known to increase the stability of proteins in their native-folded state, however, the efficiency and molecular mechanism behind this process are still controversial. A study using molecular dynamics simulations found that arginine, histidine, and lysine solutions have varying effects on the hydration and conformational stability of the insulin monomer. Arginine was observed to influence insulin stability by enhancing the exclusion of water molecules from the protein surface, leading to more rigid conformations compared to histidine and lysine.
Amino acids having basic side chains, as additives, are known to increase the stability of native-folded state of proteins, but their relative efficiency and the molecular mechanism are still controversial and obscure as well. In the present work, extensive atomistic molecular dynamics simulations were performed to investigate the hydration properties of aqueous solutions of concentrated arginine, histidine, and lysine and their comparative efficiency on regulating the conformational stability of the insulin monomer. We identified that in the aqueous solutions of the free amino acids, the nonuniform relaxation of amino acid-water hydrogen bonds was due to the entrapment of water molecules within the amino acid clusters formed in solutions. Insulin, when tested with these solutions, was found to show rigid conformations, relative to that in pure water. We observed that while the salt bridges formed by the lysine as an additive contributed more toward the direct interactions with insulin, the cation-pi was more prominent for the insulin-arginine interactions. Importantly, it was observed that the preferentially more excluded arginine, compared to histidine and lysine from the insulin surface, enriches the hydration layer of the protein. Our study reveals that the loss of configurational entropy of insulin in arginine solution, as compared to that in pure water, is more as compared to the entropy loss in the other two amino acid solutions, which, moreover, was found to be due to the presence of motionally bound less entropic hydration water of insulin in arginine solution than in histidine or lysine solution.

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