Hydrolysis of Chemically Distinct Sites of Human Serum Albumin by Polyoxometalate: A Hybrid QM/MM (ONIOM) Study
Hydrolysis of Chemically Distinct Sites of Human Serum Albumin by Polyoxometalate: A Hybrid QM/MM (ONIOM) Study
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10.1002/jcc.25528
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发表时间:
2019-01-05
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3
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Prabhakar, Rajeev
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Jayasinghe-Arachchige, Vindi M.;Hu, Qiaoyu;Prabhakar, Rajeev
In this study, mechanisms of hydrolysis of all four chemically diverse cleavage sites of human serum albumin (HSA) by [Zr(OH) (PW11O39)](4-)(ZrK) have been investigated using the hybrid two-layer QM/MM (ONIOM) method. These reactions have been proposed to occur through the following two mechanisms: internal attack (IA) and water assisted (WA). In both mechanisms, the cleavage of the peptide bond in the Cys392-Glu393 site of HSA is predicted to occur in the rate-limiting step of the mechanism. With the barrier of 27.5 kcal/mol for the hydrolysis of this site, the IA mechanism is found to be energetically more favorable than the WA mechanism (barrier = 31.6 kcal/mol). The energetics for the IA mechanism are in line with the experimentally measured values for the cleavage of a wide range of dipeptides. These calculations also suggest an energetic preference (Cys392-Glu393, Ala257-Asp258, Lys313-Asp314, and Arg114-Leu115) for the hydrolysis of all four sites of HSA. (C) 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.