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标题：Alanine mutation of the catalytic sites of Pantothenate Synthetase causes distinct conformational changes in the ATP binding region
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作者：Bharati Pandey ; Sonam Grover ; Sukriti Goyal 等
期刊名称：Scientific Reports
电子版ISSN：2045-2322
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：903
DOI：10.1038/s41598-017-19075-2
语种：English
出版社：Springer Nature
摘要：The enzyme Pantothenate synthetase (PS) represents a potential drug target in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its X-ray crystallographic structure has demonstrated the significance and importance of conserved active site residues including His44, His47, Asn69, Gln72, Lys160 and Gln164 in substrate binding and formation of pantoyl adenylate intermediate. In the current study, molecular mechanism of decreased affinity of the enzyme for ATP caused by alanine mutations was investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and free energy calculations. A total of seven systems including wild-type + ATP, H44A + ATP, H47A + ATP, N69A + ATP, Q72A + ATP, K160A + ATP and Q164A + ATP were subjected to 50 ns MD simulations. Docking score, MM-GBSA and interaction profile analysis showed weak interactions between ATP (substrate) and PS (enzyme) in H47A and H160A mutants as compared to wild-type, leading to reduced protein catalytic activity. However, principal component analysis (PCA) and free energy landscape (FEL) analysis revealed that ATP was strongly bound to the catalytic core of the wild-type, limiting its movement to form a stable complex as compared to mutants. The study will give insight about ATP binding to the PS at the atomic level and will facilitate in designing of non-reactive analogue of pantoyl adenylate which will act as a specific inhibitor for PS.