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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 121, 期 48, 页码 10841-10849出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b09510
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- University of Maryland start-up grant
Biotin-streptavidin is a very popular system used to gain insight into protein ligand interactions. In its tetrameric form, it is well-known for its exceptionally high kinetic stability, being one of the strongest known noncovalent interactions in nature, and it is heavily used across the biotechnological industry. In this work, we gain understanding of the molecular determinants and bottlenecks in the dissociation of the dimeric biotin streptavidin system in wild type and with a point mutation. Using recently proposed enhanced sampling methods with full atomistic resolution, we reproduce the experimentally reported effect of the mutation on the dissociation rate. We also answer a longstanding question regarding cause/effect in the coupled events of bond stretching and bond hydration during dissociation and establish that in this system, it is the bond stretching and not hydration which forms the bottleneck in the early parts of the dissociation process. We believe these calculations represent a step forward in the use of atomistic simulations to study pharmacokinetics. An improved understanding of biotin streptavidin dissociation dynamics should also have direct benefits in biotechnological and nanobiotechnological applications.
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