Molecular dynamics study of major urinary protein-pheromone interactions: A structural model for ligand-induced flexibility increase

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Authors

MACEK Pavel NOVÁK Petr KŘÍŽOVÁ Hana ŽÍDEK Lukáš SKLENÁŘ Vladimír

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source FEBS Letters
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.febslet.2005.12.088
Field Biochemistry
Keywords Major urinary protein; Molecular dynamics simulation; Pheromone–protein interaction; Molecular motion; TZL; Order parameter
Description Recently, two independent 15N NMR relaxation studies indicated that in contrast to the decreased flexibility expected for induced-fit interactions, the backbone flexibility of major urinary protein isoform I (MUP-I) slightly increased upon complex formation with its natural pheromone 2-sec-butyl-4,5-dihydrothiazol. We have investigated the subtle details of molecular interactions by molecular dynamics simulations in explicit solvent. The calculated order parameters S2 for a free- and ligand-bound protein supply evidence that mobility in various regions of MUP-I can be directly related to small conformational changes of the free- and complexed protein resulting from modifications of the hydrogen bonding network.
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