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ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 1547-1555Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c05361
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- Independent Research Fund Denmark [8022-00165B]
- Novo Nordisk Foundation [NNF15OC0016606]
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The study proposes a new framework for assessing the binding strengths of multidomain proteins, particularly interfacial enzymes, and successfully predicts the binding and activation free energies of cellulases. The method provides a fast computational screening tool for cellulases that have not been experimentally characterized, and it may also be applicable to other heterogeneously acting biocatalysts.
While heterogeneous enzyme reactions play an essential role in both nature and green industries, computational predictions of their catalytic properties remain scarce. Recent experimental work demonstrated the applicability of the Sabatier principle for heterogeneous biocatalysis. This provides a simple relationship between binding strength and the catalytic rate and potentially opens a new way for inexpensive computational determination of kinetic parameters. However, broader implementation of this approach will require fast and reliable prediction of binding free energies of complex two-phase systems, and computational procedures for this are still elusive. Here, we propose a new framework for the assessment of the binding strengths of multidomain proteins, in general, and interfacial enzymes, in particular, based on an extended linear interaction energy (LIE) method. This twodomain LIE (2D-LIE) approach was successfully applied to predict binding and activation free energies of a diverse set of cellulases and resulted in robust models with high accuracy. Overall, our method provides a fast computational screening tool for cellulases that have not been experimentally characterized, and we posit that it may also be applicable to other heterogeneously acting biocatalysts.
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