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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING
卷 62, 期 -, 页码 97-104出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2015.09.003
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Glycosaminoglycan; Interleukin-10; Molecular modeling; Molecular dynamics; GAG binding
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资金
- German Research Foundation [SFB-TRR67, A7]
- PhD fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB)
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
The biological function of the pleiotropic cytokine interleukin-10 (IL-10), which has an essential role in inflammatory processes, is known to be affected by glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). GAGs are essential constituents of the extracellular matrix with an important role in modulating the biological function of many proteins. The molecular mechanisms governing the IL-10-GAG interaction, though, are unclear so far. In particular, detailed knowledge about GAG binding sites and recognition mode on IL-10 is lacking, despite of its imminent importance for understanding the functional consequences of IL-10-GAG interaction. In the present work, we report a GAG binding site on IL-10 identified by applying computational methods based on Coulomb potential calculations and specialized molecular dynamics simulations. The identified GAG binding site is constituted of several positively charged residues, which are conserved among species. Exhaustive conformational space sampling of a series of GAG ligands binding to IL-10 led to the observation of two GAG binding modes in the predicted binding site, and to the identification of IL-10 residues R104, R106, R107, and K119 as being most important for molecular GAG recognition. In silico mutation as well as single-residue energy decomposition and detailed analysis of hydrogen-bonding behavior led to the conclusion that R107 is most essential and assumes a unique role in IL-10-GAG interaction. This structural and dynamic characterization of GAG-binding to 1L-10 represents an important step for further understanding the modulation of the biological function of IL-10. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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