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ArticleBiophysical journal2019

Cryo-Cooling Effect on DHFR Crystal Studied by Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Tetsuro Nagai, Florence Tama, Osamu Miyashita

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Tetsuro NagaiDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Florence TamaDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; ITbM, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan; RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
Osamu MiyashitaRIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. Electronic address: osamu.miyashita@riken.jp.
RIKEN Center for Computational Science · JPNagoya University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryo-cooling is routinely performed before x-ray diffraction image collection to reduce the damage to crystals due to ionizing radiation. It has been suggested that although backbone structures are usually very similar between room temperature and cryo-temperature, cryo-cooling may hamper biologically relevant dynamics. In this study, the crystal of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase is studied with replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulation, and the results are compared with the crystal structure determined at cryo-temperature and room temperature with the time-averaged ensemble method. Although temperature dependence of unit cell compaction and root mean-square fluctuation of Cα is found in accord with experiment, it is found that the protein structure at low temperature can be more heterogeneous than the ensemble of structures reported by using the time-averaged ensemble method, encouraging further development of the time-averaged ensemble method and indicating that data should be examined carefully to avoid overinterpretation of one average structure.

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Cold TemperatureMolecular Dynamics SimulationEscherichia coliHydrogen BondingHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsProtein ConformationTetrahydrofolate DehydrogenaseWaterTetrahydrofolate DehydrogenaseWater

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PMID30638963
PMCPMC6369401
OpenAlexW2903959091

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