Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28796192›Full record

ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Computational Studies on Acetylcholinesterases.

Yechun Xu, Shanmei Cheng, Joel L Sussman, Israel Silman, Hualiang Jiang

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yechun XuCAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201203, China. ycxu@simm.ac.cn.
Shanmei ChengCAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201203, China. smcheng@simm.ac.cn.
Joel L SussmanIsrael Structural Proteomics Center, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. joel.sussman@weizmann.ac.il.
Israel SilmanDepartment of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. Israel.Silman@weizmann.ac.il.
Hualiang JiangCAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Drug Discovery and Design Center, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201203, China. hljiang@simm.ac.cn.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica · CNWeizmann Institute of Science · ILChinese Academy of Sciences · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functions of biomolecules, in particular enzymes, are usually modulated by structural fluctuations. This is especially the case in a gated diffusion-controlled reaction catalyzed by an enzyme such as acetylcholinesterase. The catalytic triad of acetylcholinesterase is located at the bottom of a long and narrow gorge, but it catalyzes the extremely rapid hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, with a reaction rate close to the diffusion-controlled limit. Computational modeling and simulation have produced considerable advances in exploring the dynamical and conformational properties of biomolecules, not only aiding in interpreting the experimental data, but also providing insights into the internal motions of the biomolecule at the atomic level. Given the remarkably high catalytic efficiency and the importance of acetylcholinesterase in drug development, great efforts have been made to understand the dynamics associated with its functions by use of various computational methods. Here, we present a comprehensive overview of recent computational studies on acetylcholinesterase, expanding our views of the enzyme from a microstate of a single structure to conformational ensembles, strengthening our understanding of the integration of structure, dynamics and function associated with the enzyme, and promoting the structure-based and/or mechanism-based design of new inhibitors for it.

Indexed as

Computer SimulationModels, MolecularAcetylcholinesteraseBinding SitesCatalytic DomainDiffusionHydrolysisKineticsMolecular StructureProtein BindingProtein ConformationAcetylcholinesteraseacetylcholinesteraseactive-site gorgecatalytic reaction mechanismcomputational modeling and simulationligand traffickingoligomer

Identifiers

PMID28796192
PMCPMC6152020
OpenAlexW2743409175

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