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Full-Text Articles in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
Numerical Study Of Lipid Translocation Driven By Nanoporation Due To Multiple High-Intensity, Ultrashort Electrical Pulses, Viswanadham Sridhara, Ravindra P. Joshi
Numerical Study Of Lipid Translocation Driven By Nanoporation Due To Multiple High-Intensity, Ultrashort Electrical Pulses, Viswanadham Sridhara, Ravindra P. Joshi
Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications
The dynamical translocation of lipids from one leaflet to another due to membrane permeabilization driven by nanosecond, high-intensity (>100 kV/cm) electrical pulses has been probed. Our simulations show that lipid molecules can translocate by diffusion through water-filled nanopores which form following high voltage application. Our focus is on multiple pulsing, and such simulations are relevant to gauge the time duration over which nanopores might remain open, and facilitate continued lipid translocations and membrane transport. Our results are indicative of a N1/2 scaling with pulse number for the pore radius. These results bode well for the use of pulse …
Peregrination Of The Selectivity Filter Delineates The Pore Of The Human Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hhv1, Deri Morgan, Boris Musset, Kethika Kulleperuma, Susan M. E. Smith, Sindhu Rajan, Vladimir V. Cherny, Régis Pomès, Thomas E. Decoursey
Peregrination Of The Selectivity Filter Delineates The Pore Of The Human Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Hhv1, Deri Morgan, Boris Musset, Kethika Kulleperuma, Susan M. E. Smith, Sindhu Rajan, Vladimir V. Cherny, Régis Pomès, Thomas E. Decoursey
Faculty and Research Publications
Extraordinary selectivity is crucial to all proton-conducting molecules, including the human voltage-gated proton channel (hHv1), because the proton concentration is >106 times lower than that of other cations. Here we use "selectivity filter scanning" to elucidate the molecular requirements for proton-specific conduction in hHv1. Asp112, in the middle of the S1 transmembrane helix, is an essential part of the selectivity filter in wild-type (WT) channels. After neutralizing Asp112 by mutating it to Ala (D112A), we introduced Asp at each position along S1 from 108 to 118, searching for "second site suppressor" activity. …
Allosteric Mechanism Of Water Channel Gating By Ca2+–Calmodulin, Steve Reichow, Daniel M. Clemens, J. Alfredo Freites, Karin L. Németh-Cahalan, Matthias Heyden, Douglas J. Tobias, James E. Hall, Tamir Gonen
Allosteric Mechanism Of Water Channel Gating By Ca2+–Calmodulin, Steve Reichow, Daniel M. Clemens, J. Alfredo Freites, Karin L. Németh-Cahalan, Matthias Heyden, Douglas J. Tobias, James E. Hall, Tamir Gonen
Chemistry Faculty Publications and Presentations
Calmodulin (CaM) is a universal regulatory protein that communicates the presence of calcium to its molecular targets and correspondingly modulates their function. This key signaling protein is important for controlling the activity of hundreds of membrane channels and transporters. However, our understanding of the structural mechanisms driving CaM regulation of full-length membrane proteins has remained elusive. In this study, we determined the pseudo-atomic structure of full-length mammalian aquaporin-0 (AQP0, Bos Taurus) in complex with CaM using electron microscopy to understand how this signaling protein modulates water channel function. Molecular dynamics and functional mutation studies reveal how CaM binding inhibits AQP0 …
Application Of Computational Molecular Biophysics To Problems In Bacterial Chemotaxis, Davi Ortega
Application Of Computational Molecular Biophysics To Problems In Bacterial Chemotaxis, Davi Ortega
Doctoral Dissertations
The combination of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science constitutes the promising field of computational molecular biophysics. This field studies the molecular properties of DNA, protein lipids and biomolecules using computational methods. For this dissertation, I approached four problems involving the chemotaxis pathway, the set of proteins that function as the navigation system of bacteria and lower eukaryotes.
In the first chapter, I used a special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulations, Anton, to simulate the signaling domain of the chemoreceptor in different signaling states for a total of 6 microseconds. Among other findings, this study provides enough evidence to propose …
Rescuing Acetylcholinesterase From Nerve Agent Inhibition: Protein Dynamics Driven Drug Discovery, Aiyana M. Emigh, Brian Bennion
Rescuing Acetylcholinesterase From Nerve Agent Inhibition: Protein Dynamics Driven Drug Discovery, Aiyana M. Emigh, Brian Bennion
STAR Program Research Presentations
Severe morbidity and mortality consequences result from irreversible inhibition of human acetylcholinesterase by organophosphates (OPs). Oxime-based reactivators are currently the only available treatments but lack efficacy in the central nervous system (CNS) where the most damage occurs. Computational docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reveal complex structural barriers that may reduce oxime efficacy. These results may guide future drug designs of more effective countermeasures.
Biochemical, Structural, And Drug Design Studies Of Multi-Drug Resistant Hiv-1 Therapeutic Targets, Tamaria Grace Dewdney
Biochemical, Structural, And Drug Design Studies Of Multi-Drug Resistant Hiv-1 Therapeutic Targets, Tamaria Grace Dewdney
Wayne State University Dissertations
Protein point mutations acquired as a mechanism of survival against therapeutics cause structural changes that effect protein function and inhibitor binding. This work investigates the structural mechanisms that lead to multi-drug resistance to HIV-1 protease and integrase inhibitors.
Proper proteolytic processing of the HIV-1 Gag/Pol polyprotein is required for HIV infection and viral replication. This feature has made HIV-1 protease an attractive target for antiretroviral drug design for the treatment of HIV-1 infected patients, thus the development of drug resistance has arisen as a major therapeutic and drug design challenge. To understand the molecular mechanisms leading to drug resistance we …
Molecular Details Of The Catalytic Activity Of Carboxylesterases, Xiaozhen Yu
Molecular Details Of The Catalytic Activity Of Carboxylesterases, Xiaozhen Yu
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Carboxylesterases (CEs; EC 3.1.1.1) are ubiquitous enzymes responsible for the detoxification of xenobiotics. CEs hydrolyze carboxyl esters into their corresponding alcohol and carboxylic acid. Because of their biological functions, especially their roles in converting inactive prodrugs, such as the anti-cancer drug CPT-11, to their active metabolites, a good understanding of the mechanism of the hydrolysis reaction will give us a better direction for drug design. In this study, we used a multidisciplinary approach (computational simulation, molecular biology techniques and enzyme kinetic methods) to study the dynamic motions of CEs and the potential role of these motions in the catalytic mechanism …
Intrinsic Contact Geometry Of Protein Dynamics, Yosi Shibberu, Allen Holder, David Cooper
Intrinsic Contact Geometry Of Protein Dynamics, Yosi Shibberu, Allen Holder, David Cooper
Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)
We introduce a new measure for comparing protein structures that is especially applicable to analysis of molecular dynamics simulation results. The new measure generalizes the widely used root-mean-squared-deviation (RMSD) measure from three dimensional to n-dimensional Euclidean space, where n equals the number of atoms in the protein molecule. The new measure shows that despite significant fluctuations in the three dimensional geometry of the estrogen receptor protein, the protein's intrinsic contact geometry is remarkably stable over nanosecond time scales. The new measure also identifies significant structural changes missed by RMSD for a residue that plays a key biological role in …
Periodic Boundary Condition Induced Breakdown Of The Equipartition Principle And Other Kinetic Effects Of Finite Sample Size In Classical Hard-Sphere Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Randall B. Shirts, Scott R. Burt, Aaron M. Johnson
Periodic Boundary Condition Induced Breakdown Of The Equipartition Principle And Other Kinetic Effects Of Finite Sample Size In Classical Hard-Sphere Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Randall B. Shirts, Scott R. Burt, Aaron M. Johnson
Faculty Publications
We examine consequences of the non-Boltzmann nature of probability distributions for one-particle kinetic energy, momentum, and velocity for finite systems of classical hard spheres with constant total energy and nonidentical masses. By comparing two cases, reflecting walls (NVE or microcanonical ensemble) and periodic boundaries (NVEPG or molecular dynamics ensemble), we describe three consequences of the center-of-mass constraint in periodic boundary conditions: the equipartition theorem no longer holds for unequal masses, the ratio of the average relative velocity to the average velocity is increased by a factor of [N/(N–1)]^1/2, and the ratio of average collision energy to average kinetic energy is …
Destabilizing Effect Of Proline Substitutions In Two Helical Regions Of T4 Lysozyme: Leucine 66 To Proline And Leucine 91 To Proline, Terry M. Gray, Eric J. Arnoys, Stephen Blankespoor, Tim Born
Destabilizing Effect Of Proline Substitutions In Two Helical Regions Of T4 Lysozyme: Leucine 66 To Proline And Leucine 91 To Proline, Terry M. Gray, Eric J. Arnoys, Stephen Blankespoor, Tim Born
University Faculty Publications and Creative Works
A class of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of T4 lysozyme with reduced activity at 30 °C and no activity at 43 °C has been selected. These mutants, designated 'tight' ts mutants, differ from most other T4 lysozyme mutants that are active at 43 °C, but only manifest their ts lesion by a reduced halo size around phage plaques after exposure of the growth plates to chloroform vapors. For example, in the series of T4 lysozyme mutants at position 157, the original randomly selected mutant, T1571, is the least stable of the series, yet, apart from the halo assay and subsequent in …