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Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Plasmodium vivax malaria affects 14 million people each year. Its invasion requires interactions between the parasitic Duffy-binding protein (PvDBP) and the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD1) of the host’s Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC). ECD1 is highly flexible and intrinsically di...

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Autores principales: Kranjc, Agata, Narwani, Tarun Jairaj, Abby, Sophie S., de Brevern, Alexandre G.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10488288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37686086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241713280
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author Kranjc, Agata
Narwani, Tarun Jairaj
Abby, Sophie S.
de Brevern, Alexandre G.
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Narwani, Tarun Jairaj
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description Plasmodium vivax malaria affects 14 million people each year. Its invasion requires interactions between the parasitic Duffy-binding protein (PvDBP) and the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD1) of the host’s Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC). ECD1 is highly flexible and intrinsically disordered, therefore it can adopt different conformations. We computationally modeled the challenging ECD1 local structure. With T-REMD simulations, we sampled its dynamic behavior and collected its most representative conformations. Our results suggest that most of the DARC ECD1 domain remains in a disordered state during the simulated time. Globular local conformations are found in the analyzed local free-energy minima. These globular conformations share an α-helix spanning residues Ser18 to Ser29 and in many cases they comprise an antiparallel β-sheet, whose β-strands are formed around residues Leu10 and Ala49. The formation of a parallel β-sheet is almost negligible. So far, progress in understanding the mechanisms forming the basis of the P. vivax malaria infection of reticulocytes has been hampered by experimental difficulties, along with a lack of DARC structural information. Our collection of the most probable ECD1 structural conformations will help to advance modeling of the DARC structure and to explore DARC–ECD1 interactions with a range of physiological and pathological ligands.
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spelling pubmed-104882882023-09-09 Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations Kranjc, Agata Narwani, Tarun Jairaj Abby, Sophie S. de Brevern, Alexandre G. Int J Mol Sci Article Plasmodium vivax malaria affects 14 million people each year. Its invasion requires interactions between the parasitic Duffy-binding protein (PvDBP) and the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD1) of the host’s Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC). ECD1 is highly flexible and intrinsically disordered, therefore it can adopt different conformations. We computationally modeled the challenging ECD1 local structure. With T-REMD simulations, we sampled its dynamic behavior and collected its most representative conformations. Our results suggest that most of the DARC ECD1 domain remains in a disordered state during the simulated time. Globular local conformations are found in the analyzed local free-energy minima. These globular conformations share an α-helix spanning residues Ser18 to Ser29 and in many cases they comprise an antiparallel β-sheet, whose β-strands are formed around residues Leu10 and Ala49. The formation of a parallel β-sheet is almost negligible. So far, progress in understanding the mechanisms forming the basis of the P. vivax malaria infection of reticulocytes has been hampered by experimental difficulties, along with a lack of DARC structural information. Our collection of the most probable ECD1 structural conformations will help to advance modeling of the DARC structure and to explore DARC–ECD1 interactions with a range of physiological and pathological ligands. MDPI 2023-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10488288/ /pubmed/37686086 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241713280 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kranjc, Agata
Narwani, Tarun Jairaj
Abby, Sophie S.
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Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
title Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
title_full Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
title_fullStr Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
title_full_unstemmed Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
title_short Structural Space of the Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines’ Intrinsically Disordered Ectodomain 1 Explored by Temperature Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations
title_sort structural space of the duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines’ intrinsically disordered ectodomain 1 explored by temperature replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10488288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37686086
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241713280
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