A comparative study of various computational approaches in calculating the structure of pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent β-lyase protein. The importance of protein environment
✍ Scribed by Rajeev Prabhakar; Keiji Morokuma; Djamaladdin G. Musaev
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 88 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0192-8651
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Various computational approaches, using molecular mechanics (Amber), semiempirical (AM1), density functional (B3LYP), and various ONIOM methods, have been comparatively investigated for the structure of Escherichia coli NifS CsdB protein. The structure of the entire monomer containing 407 amino acid residues and 579 surrounding water molecules has been optimized. The full geometry optimization in the “active site‐only” approach (including only active site atoms) has been found to give the largest root‐mean‐square (RMS) deviation from the X‐ray structure; a much better agreement has been achieved by keeping the atoms leading to the backbones of some amino acids frozen in their positions in the X‐ray structure. The best agreement has been attained by including the surrounding protein in the calculations using the two‐layer ONIOM (B3LYP:Amber) approach. The results presented in this study conclusively demonstrate the importance of the protein/active‐site interaction on the active‐site structure of the enzyme. The present theoretical study represents the largest system studied at the ONIOM level to date, containing 7992 atoms, including 84 atoms in the QM region and rest in the MM region. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 26: 443–446, 2005