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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep07906
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21003048, 21433004]
- Shanghai Natural Science Foundation [14ZR1411900]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Precision spectroscopy, East China Normal University
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Accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) simulation is employed to study the functional dynamics of the flexible loop(3-4) in the strong-binding streptavidin-biotin complex system. Conventional molecular (cMD) simulation is also performed for comparison. The present study reveals the following important properties of the loop dynamics: (1) The transition of loop3-4 from open to closed state is observed in 200 ns aMD simulation. (2) In the absence of biotin binding, the open-state streptavidin is more stable, which is consistent with experimental evidences. The free energy (Delta G) difference is about 5 kcal/mol between two states. But with biotin binding, the closed state is more stable due to electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions between the loop(3-4) and biotin. (3) The closure of loop(3-4) is concerted to the stable binding of biotin to streptavidin. When the loop(3-4) is in its open-state, biotin moves out of the binding pocket, indicating that the interactions between the loop(3-4) and biotin are essential in trapping biotin in the binding pocket. (4) In the tetrameric streptavidin system, the conformational change of the loop(3-4) in each monomer is independent of each other. That is, there is no cooperative binding for biotin bound to the four subunits of the tetramer.
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