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ArticleJournal of molecular modeling2011

Application of a SCC-DFTB QM/MM approach to the investigation of the catalytic mechanism of fatty acid amide hydrolase.

Luigi Capoferri, Marco Mor, Jitnapa Sirirak, Ewa Chudyk, Adrian J Mulholland, Alessio Lodola

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Article in Journal of molecular modeling, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Luigi CapoferriDipartimento Farmaceutico, Università degli Studi di Parma, viale G. P. Usberti 27/A Campus Universitario, 43124, Parma, Italy.
Marco Mor
Jitnapa Sirirak
Ewa Chudyk
Adrian J Mulholland
Alessio Lodola
University of Bristol · GBUniversity of Parma · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self-consistent charge density functional tight binding (SCC-DFTB) is a promising method for hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The acylation reaction of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), a promising drug target, was investigated by applying a SCC-DFTB/CHARMM27 scheme. Calculated potential energy barriers resulted in reasonable agreement with experiments for oleamide (OA) and oleoylmethyl ester (OME) substrates, outperforming previous calculations performed at the PM3/CHARMM22 level. Furthermore, the experimental preference of FAAH in hydrolyzing OA faster than OME was adequately reproduced by calculations. All these findings indicate that the SCC-DFTB/CHARMM27 approach can be successfully applied to mechanistic investigations of FAAH-catalyzed reactions.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationAcylationAmidohydrolasesAmino Acid MotifsBiocatalysisCatalytic DomainFatty Acid Amide HydrolasesModels, ChemicalQuantum TheoryThermodynamicsAmidohydrolasesFatty Acid Amide Hydrolases

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PMID21365225
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