Abstract：
:Lysine methylation is a key regulator of protein-protein binding. The amine group of lysine can accept up to three methyl groups, and experiments show that protein-protein binding free energies are sensitive to the extent of methylation. These sensitivities have been rationalized in terms of chemical and structural features present in the binding pockets of methyllysine binding domains. However, understanding their specific roles requires an energetic analysis. Here we propose a theoretical framework to combine quantum and molecular mechanics methods, and compute the effect of methylation on protein-protein binding free energies. The advantages of this approach are that it derives contributions from all local non-trivial effects of methylation on induction, polarizability and dispersion directly from self-consistent electron densities, and at the same time determines contributions from well-characterized hydration effects using a computationally efficient classical mean field method. Limitations of the approach are discussed, and we note that predicted free energies of fourteen out of the sixteen cases agree with experiment. Critical assessment of these cases leads to the following overarching principles that drive methylation-state recognition by protein domains. Methylation typically reduces the pairwise interaction between proteins. This biases binding toward lower methylated states. Simultaneously, however, methylation also makes it easier to partially dehydrate proteins and place them in protein-protein complexes. This latter effect biases binding in favor of higher methylated states. The overall effect of methylation on protein-protein binding depends ultimately on the balance between these two effects, which is observed to be tuned via several combinations of local features.
journal_name
J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Rahman S,Wineman-Fisher V,Al-Hamdani Y,Tkatchenko A,Varma Sdoi
10.1016/j.jmb.2020.166745subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2021-02-05 00:00:00pages
166745issue
3eissn
0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
S0022-2836(20)30670-7journal_volume
433pub_type
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