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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 682-691出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.10200
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protein-DNA interactions; minor groove-binding proteins; molecular dynamics; potential of mean force
The structural and energetic determinants for kinking a basepair step by minor groove-insertion of the protein side chains of PurR, LacI, LEF-1, IHF, Sac7d, and Sso7d, have been calculated by molecular dynamics/potential of mean force simulations. The structural determinants of the kinked structures are: two contiguous furanose rings achieve different conformations, in the region of C3'endo (A-DNA) and C2'endo (B-DNA); the X torsion angle always takes values characteristic of the C2'endo conformation of B-DNA, independently of sugar puckering; and protein side chain insertion increases slide (from negative to positive values), rise, and roll, and decreases twist. The energetic determinants of DNA kinking are: the conformational transition of the sugar-phosphate backbone is not energetically demanding; the relative importance of the interbase parameters in the free energy penalty is slide, followed by twist and rise, and concluding with shift and roll; and the characteristic increase of roll and decrease of twist, upon side chain insertion, tends to stabilize the process of DNA kinking. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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