Catalytic reaction mechanism of glyoxalase II: A quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics study

J Shirazi, S Jafari, U Ryde, M Irani - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Methylglyoxal (MG) is a reactive and toxic compound produced in carbohydrate, lipid, and
amino acid metabolism. The glyoxalase system is the main detoxifying route for MG and …

QM/MM study of the catalytic reaction of myrosinase; importance of assigning proper protonation states of active-site residues

S Jafari, U Ryde, M Irani - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Myrosinase from Sinapis alba hydrolyzes glycosidic bonds of β-dS-glucosides. The enzyme
shows an enhanced activity in the presence of l-ascorbic acid. In this work, we employed …

QM/MM study of the catalytic reaction of aphid myrosinase

S Jafari, U Ryde, M Irani - International Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Brevicoryne brassicae, an aphid species, exclusively consumes plants from the
Brassicaceae family and employs a sophisticated defense mechanism involving a …

Expression, purification, characterization and in silico analysis of newly isolated hydrocarbon degrading bleomycin resistance dioxygenase

V Sharma, R Kumar, VK Sharma, AK Yadav… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Springer
In the present investigation, we report cloning, expression, purification and characterization
of a novel Bleomycin Resistance Dioxygenase (BRPD). His-tagged fusion protein was …

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics study of the reaction mechanism of glyoxalase I

S Jafari, U Ryde, AEA Fouda, FS Alavi… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Glyoxalase I (GlxI) is a member of the glyoxalase system, which is important in cell
detoxification and converts hemithioacetals of methylglyoxal (a cytotoxic byproduct of sugar …

Discovery of new Glyoxalase I inhibitors by repurposing of FDA-approved drugs: An in silico study

K Hoseyni, B Sepehri, M Irani - Journal of Molecular Structure, 2024 - Elsevier
This study employs structure-based in silico methodologies, including molecular docking
and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, to screen approximately 2500 FDA-approved …

Two-substrate glyoxalase I mechanism: a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics study

S Jafari, U Ryde, M Irani - Inorganic Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Glyoxalase I (GlxI) is an important enzyme that catalyzes the detoxification of methylglyoxal
(MG) with the help of glutathione (H-SG). It is currently unclear whether MG and H-SG are …

Study of interaction of metal ions with methylthymol blue by chemometrics and quantum chemical calculations

Z Rasouli, M Irani, S Jafari, R Ghavami - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In this study, we determine the acidity constants of methylthymol blue (MTB) and association
constants of its complexes with the ZnII, CuII, and FeII metal ions (MIs), through theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] QM/MM study of the stereospecific proton exchange of glutathiohydroxyacetone by glyoxalase I

S Jafari, U Ryde, M Irani - Results in Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
We have performed quantum mechanics (QM), molecular mechanics (MM) and hybrid
QM/MM calculations to study the stereospecific proton exchange of glutathiohydroxyacetone …

Can a quantum mechanical cluster model explain the special stereospecificity of glyoxalase I?

S Parvaneh, H Parsa, M Irani - Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantum mechanical (QM) cluster approach is a useful and convenient tool to study
mechanisms of enzymatic reactions. Our investigation is to propose a proper QM-cluster that …