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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-10-22
pubmed:abstractText
Monotopic membrane proteins bind tightly to cell membranes but do not generally span the lipid bilayer. Their interactions with lipid bilayers may be studied via coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CG-MD) simulations. Understanding such interactions is important as monotopic enzymes frequently act on hydrophobic substrates, while X-ray structures rarely provide direct information about their interactions with membranes. CG-MD self-assembly simulations enable prediction of the orientation and depth of insertion into a lipid bilayer of a monotopic protein, and also of the interactions of individual protein residues with lipid molecules. The CG-MD method has been evaluated via comparison with extended (>30 ns) atomistic simulations of monoamine oxidase, revealing good agreement between the results of coarse-grained and atomistic simulations. CG-MD simulations have been applied to a set of 11 monotopic proteins for which three-dimensional structures are available. These proteins may be divided into two groups on the basis of the results of the simulations. One group consists of those proteins which are inserted into the lipid bilayer to a limited extent, interacting mainly at the phospholipid-water interface. The second group consists of those which are inserted more deeply into the bilayer. Those monotopic proteins which are inserted more deeply cause significant local perturbation of bilayer properties such as bilayer thickness. Deeper insertion seems to correlate with a greater number of basic residues in the "foot" whereby a monotopic protein interacts with the membrane.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1520-4995
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2135-45
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Computer Simulation, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Databases, Protein, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Enzymes, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Hydrolases, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Isomerases, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Lipid Bilayers, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Oxidoreductases, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Phospholipids, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Protein Structure, Secondary, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Static Electricity, pubmed-meshheading:19161285-Transferases
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Interaction of monotopic membrane enzymes with a lipid bilayer: a coarse-grained MD simulation study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't