How the local environment of functional sites regulates protein function

K Mazmanian, K Sargsyan, C Lim - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins form complex biological machineries whose functions in the cell are highly
regulated at both the cellular and molecular levels. Cellular regulation of protein functions …

How enzymes harness highly unfavorable proton transfer reactions

TP Silverstein - Protein Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Acid–base reactions that are exceedingly unfavorable under standard conditions can be
catalytically important at enzyme active sites. For example, in triose phosphate isomerase, a …

Accurate and rapid prediction of p K a of transition metal complexes: semiempirical quantum chemistry with a data-augmented approach

V Sinha, JJ Laan, EA Pidko - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid and accurate prediction of reactivity descriptors of transition metal (TM) complexes is
a major challenge for contemporary quantum chemistry. The recently-developed GFN2-xTB …

Automatically constructed neural network potentials for molecular dynamics simulation of zinc proteins

M Xu, T Zhu, JZH Zhang - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The development of accurate and efficient potential energy functions for the molecular
dynamics simulation of metalloproteins has long been a great challenge for the theoretical …

Experimental and Computational Insight into the Mechanism of NO Binding to Ferric Microperoxidase. The Likely Role of Tautomerization to Account for the pH …

M Oszajca, G Drabik, M Radon, A Franke… - Inorganic …, 2021 - ACS Publications
According to the current paradigm, the metal–hydroxo bond in a six-coordinate porphyrin
complex is believed to be significantly less reactive in ligand substitution than the analogous …

An Antibody‐Drug Conjugate for Multiple Myeloma Prepared by Multi‐Arm Linkers

YH Yu, WT Tian, C Grauffel, WC Lin… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
First‐line treatment of multiple myeloma, a prevalent blood cancer lacking a cure, using anti‐
CD38 daratumumab antibody and lenalidomide is often inadequate due to relapse and …

Metal affinity/selectivity of monophosphate-containing signaling/lipid molecules

C Grauffel, T Dudev, C Lim - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Monophosphate, an essential component of nucleic acids, as well as cell membranes and
signaling molecules, is often bound to metal cations. Despite the biological importance of …

Factors Governing the Different Functions of Zn2+-Sites with Identical Ligands in Proteins

YM Lee, C Grauffel, T Chen, K Sargsyan… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In Zn-proteins, structural Zn-sites are mostly Cys-rich lined by two or more Cys residues,
whereas catalytic Zn-sites usually contain His or Asp/Glu residues and a water molecule …

[引用][C] The biochemistry and enzymology of zinc enzymes

G Bahr, PE Tomatis, AJ Vila - 2023 - Elsevier