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ArticleMolecular simulation

To Keep or Not to Keep? The Question of Crystallographic Waters for Enzyme Simulations in Organic Solvent.

Jayangika N Dahanayake, Devaki N Gautam, Rajni Verma, Katie R Mitchell-Koch

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Article in Molecular simulation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Protein Solvent Shell Structure Provides Rapid Analysis of Hydration Dynamics.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2019
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  5. Entropy connects water structure and dynamics in protein hydration layer.Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP · 2018
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  7. Catalysts (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jayangika N DahanayakeDepartment of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260-0051, United States.
Devaki N GautamDepartment of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260-0051, United States.
Rajni VermaDepartment of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260-0051, United States.
Katie R Mitchell-KochDepartment of Chemistry, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260-0051, United States.
Wichita State University · US

Funding

Mentoring CoreP20GM103418 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · PI SUSAN J. BROWN · 2012 to 2026
$63.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of enzymes in non-aqueous solvents expands the use of biocatalysts to hydrophobic substrates, with the ability to tune selectivity of reactions through solvent selection. Non-aqueous enzymology also allows for fundamental studies on the role of water and other solvents in enzyme structure, dynamics, and function. Molecular dynamics simulations serve as a powerful tool in this area, providing detailed atomic information about the effect of solvents on enzyme properties. However, a common protocol for non-aqueous enzyme simulations does not exist. If you want to simulate enzymes in non-aqueous solutions, how many and which crystallographic waters do you keep? In the present work, this question is addressed by determining which crystallographic water molecules lead most quickly to an equilibrated protein structure. Five different methods of selecting and keeping crystallographic waters are used in order to discover which crystallographic waters lead the protein structure to reach an equilibrated structure more rapidly in organic solutions. It is found that buried waters contribute most to rapid equilibration in organic solvent, with slow-diffusing waters giving similar results.

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crystallographic waterequilibrationKWW modelmolecular dynamicsnon-aqueous enzymology

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PMID27403032
PMCPMC4937824
OpenAlexW2318212939

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