Cocaine Esterase鈥揅ocaine Binding Process and the Free Energy Profiles by Molecular Dynamics and Potential of Mean Force Simulations

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• 作者：Xiaoqin Huang ; Xinyun Zhao ; Fang Zheng ; Chang-Guo Zhan
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：March 15, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：116
• 期：10
• 页码：3361-3368
• 全文大小：392K
• 年卷期：v.116,no.10(March 15, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5207

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The combined molecular dynamics (MD) and potential of mean force (PMF) simulations have been performed to determine the free energy profiles for the binding process of (鈭?-cocaine interacting with wild-type cocaine esterase (CocE) and its mutants (T172R/G173Q and L119A/L169K/G173Q). According to the MD simulations, the general protein鈥?鈭?-cocaine binding mode is not affected by the mutations; e.g.. the benzoyl group of (鈭?-cocaine is always bound in a subsite composed of aromatic residues W151, W166, F261, and F408 and hydrophobic residue L407, while the carbonyl oxygen on the benzoyl group of (鈭?-cocaine is hydrogen-bonded with the oxyanion-hole residues Y44 and Y118. According to the PMF-calculated free energy profiles for the binding process, the binding free energies for (鈭?-cocaine with the wild-type, T172R/G173Q, and L119A/L169K/G173Q CocEs are predicted to be 鈭?.4, 鈭?.2, and 鈭?.0 kcal/mol, respectively. The computational predictions are supported by experimental kinetic data, as the calculated binding free energies are in good agreement with the experimentally derived binding free energies, i.e., 鈭?.2, 鈭?.7, and 鈭?.8 kcal/mol for the wild-type, T172R/G173Q, and L119A/L169K/G173Q, respectively. The reasonable agreement between the computational and experimental data suggests that the PMF simulations may be used as a valuable tool in new CocE mutant design that aims to decrease the Michaelis鈥揗enten constant of the enzyme for (鈭?-cocaine.