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The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model
As a member of the fatty acids transporter family, the heart fatty acid binding proteins (HFABPs) are responsible for many important biological activities. The binding mechanism of fatty acid with FABP is critical to the understanding of FABP functions. The uncovering of binding-relevant intermediat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678811/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31311155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20143476 |
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author | Guo, Yue Duan, Mojie Yang, Minghui |
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description | As a member of the fatty acids transporter family, the heart fatty acid binding proteins (HFABPs) are responsible for many important biological activities. The binding mechanism of fatty acid with FABP is critical to the understanding of FABP functions. The uncovering of binding-relevant intermediate states and interactions would greatly increase our knowledge of the binding process. In this work, all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to characterize the structural properties of nativelike intermediate states. Based on multiple 6 μs MD simulations and Markov state model (MSM) analysis, several “open” intermediate states were observed. The transition rates between these states and the native closed state are in good agreement with the experimental measurements, which indicates that these intermediate states are binding relevant. As a common property in the open states, the partially unfolded α2 helix generates a larger portal and provides the driving force to facilitate ligand binding. On the other side, there are two kinds of open states for the ligand-binding HFABP: one has the partially unfolded α2 helix, and the other has the looser β-barrel with disjointing βD-βE strands. Our results provide atomic-level descriptions of the binding-relevant intermediate states and could improve our understanding of the binding mechanism. |
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spelling | pubmed-66788112019-08-19 The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model Guo, Yue Duan, Mojie Yang, Minghui Int J Mol Sci Article As a member of the fatty acids transporter family, the heart fatty acid binding proteins (HFABPs) are responsible for many important biological activities. The binding mechanism of fatty acid with FABP is critical to the understanding of FABP functions. The uncovering of binding-relevant intermediate states and interactions would greatly increase our knowledge of the binding process. In this work, all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to characterize the structural properties of nativelike intermediate states. Based on multiple 6 μs MD simulations and Markov state model (MSM) analysis, several “open” intermediate states were observed. The transition rates between these states and the native closed state are in good agreement with the experimental measurements, which indicates that these intermediate states are binding relevant. As a common property in the open states, the partially unfolded α2 helix generates a larger portal and provides the driving force to facilitate ligand binding. On the other side, there are two kinds of open states for the ligand-binding HFABP: one has the partially unfolded α2 helix, and the other has the looser β-barrel with disjointing βD-βE strands. Our results provide atomic-level descriptions of the binding-relevant intermediate states and could improve our understanding of the binding mechanism. MDPI 2019-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6678811/ /pubmed/31311155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20143476 Text en © 2019 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Guo, Yue Duan, Mojie Yang, Minghui The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model |
title | The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model |
title_full | The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model |
title_fullStr | The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model |
title_full_unstemmed | The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model |
title_short | The Observation of Ligand-Binding-Relevant Open States of Fatty Acid Binding Protein by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and a Markov State Model |
title_sort | observation of ligand-binding-relevant open states of fatty acid binding protein by molecular dynamics simulations and a markov state model |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678811/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31311155 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20143476 |
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