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Exploring the electronic structure of knotted proteins: the case of two ornithine transcarbamylase family.

José Cícero Alves SilvaIgor Barden GrilloGabriel A Urquiza-CarvalhoGerd Bruno Rocha
Published in: Journal of molecular modeling (2024)
In order to investigate these systems, we used PRIMoRDiA, a new software developed by our research group, to explore the electronic structure of biological macromolecules. We evaluated several local quantum chemical descriptors to unveil relevant patterns potentially originating from the presence of the geometrical knot in two proteins, belonging to the ornithine transcarbamylase family. We compared several sampled structures from these two enzymes that are highly similar in both tertiary structure and function, but one of them has a knot whereas the other does not. The sampling was carried out through molecular dynamics simulations using ff14SB force field along 50 ns, and the semiempirical convergence was performed with PM7 Hamiltonian.
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