Carbohydrate–protein interactions: Molecular modeling insights

S Perez, I Tvaroška - Advances in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The article reviews the significant contributions to, and the present status of, applications of
computational methods for the characterization and prediction of protein–carbohydrate …

A reoptimized GROMOS force field for hexopyranose‐based carbohydrates accounting for the relative free energies of ring conformers, anomers, epimers …

HS Hansen, PH Hünenberger - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a reoptimization of the GROMOS 53A6 force field for hexopyranose‐
based carbohydrates (nearly equivalent to 45A4 for pure carbohydrate systems) into a new …

Revision of the GROMOS 56A6CARBO force field: Improving the description of ring‐conformational equilibria in hexopyranose‐based carbohydrates chains

W Plazinski, A Lonardi… - Journal of computational …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes a revised version 56A6CARBO_R of the GROMOS 56A6CARBO force
field for hexopyranose‐based carbohydrates. The simulated properties of unfunctionalized …

Molecular mechanism of the glycosylation step catalyzed by Golgi α-mannosidase II: a QM/MM metadynamics investigation

L Petersen, A Ardevol, C Rovira… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Golgi α-mannosidase II (GMII), a member of glycoside hydrolase family 38, cleaves two
mannosyl residues from GlcNAcMan5GlcNAc2 as part of the N-linked glycosylation …

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics modeling of substrate-assisted catalysis in family 18 chitinases: conformational changes and the role of Asp142 in catalysis …

J Jitonnom, VS Lee, P Nimmanpipug, HA Rowlands… - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Family 18 chitinases catalyze the hydrolysis of β-1, 4-glycosidic bonds in chitin. The
mechanism has been proposed to involve the formation of an oxazolinium ion intermediate …

Insight into the catalytic mechanism of GH11 xylanase: computational analysis of substrate distortion based on a neutron structure

T Ishida, JM Parks, JC Smith - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The reaction mechanism of biomass decomposition by xylanases remains the subject of
debate. To clarify the mechanism we investigated the glycosylation step of GH11 xylanase …

Probing the active site chemistry of β-glucosidases along the hydrolysis reaction pathway

S Badieyan, DR Bevan, C Zhang - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
β-Glucosidases (EC 3.2. 1.21) can be found in all domains of living organisms, where they
play essential roles in the removal of terminal glucosyl residues from nonreducing ends of …

A critical survey of average distances between catalytic carboxyl groups in glycoside hydrolases

NN Mhlongo, AA Skelton, G Kruger… - Proteins: Structure …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Published X‐ray crystallographic structures for glycoside hydrolases (GHs) from 39 different
families are surveyed according to some rigorous selection criteria, and the distances …

An in-silico layer-by-layer adsorption study of the interaction between Rebaudioside A and the T1R2 human sweet taste receptor: modelling and biosensing …

OA Arodola, S Kanchi, P Hloma, K Bisetty, AM Asiri… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The human sweet taste receptor (T1R2) monomer—a member of the G-protein coupled
receptor family that detects a wide variety of chemically and structurally diverse sweet tasting …

Dynamics of the thumb-finger regions in a GH11 xylanase Bacillus circulans: comparison between the Michaelis and covalent intermediate

NN Mhlongo, M Ebrahim, AA Skelton, HG Kruger… - RSC …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The structure and dynamics of B. circulans β-1, 4-xylanase (BCX) were comparatively
studied utilizing molecular dynamics. Simulations of the free enzyme, non-covalently bound …