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Structure And Dynamics Of Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase, Kentaro Sugino
Structure And Dynamics Of Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase, Kentaro Sugino
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Soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) is one of the key enzymes involved in many fundamental biological processes including vasodilatation. It can be allosterically activated by synthetic compound such as YC-l. Recently, the 3D structure of adenylyl cyclase (AC), which is a homologue of sGC, was determined. Using AC as template and homology modeling, the 3D structure of sGC is predicted. Prior experimental work has suggested two binding modes of YC- 1. In the current investigation, molecular dynamics simulations (MD) were conducted to seek more detail of molecular mechanism of sGC activation.
From these MD simulations, a tentative mechanism of sGC activation …