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:The work uses MD simulation to study effects of five water contents (3 %, 10 %, 20 %, 50 %, 100 % v/v) on the tetrahedral intermediate of chymotrypsin - trifluoromethyl ketone in polar acetonitrile and non-polar hexane media. The water content induced changes in the structure of the intermediate, solvent distribution and H-bonding are analyzed in the two organic media. Our results show that the changes in overall structure of the protein almost display a clear correlation with the water content in hexane media while to some extent U-shaped/bell-shaped dependence on the water content is observed in acetonitrile media with a minimum/maximum at 10-20 % water content. In contrast, the water content change in the two organic solvents does not play an observable role in the stability of catalytic hydrogen-bond network, which still exhibits high stability in all hydration levels, different from observations on the free enzyme system [Zhu L, Yang W, Meng YY, Xiao X, Guo Y, Pu X, Li M (2012) J Phys Chem B 116(10):3292-3304]. In low hydration levels, most water molecules mainly distribute near the protein surface and an increase in the water content could not fully exclude the organic solvent from the protein surface. However, the acetonitrile solvent displays a stronger ability to strip off water molecules from the protein than the hexane. In a summary, the difference in the calculated properties between the two organic solvents is almost significant in low water content (<10 %) and become to be small with increasing water content. In addition, some structural properties at 10 ~ 20 % v/v hydration zone, to large extent, approach to those in aqueous solution.
journal_name
J Mol Modeljournal_title
Journal of molecular modelingauthors
Tian X,Jiang L,Yuan Y,Wang M,Guo Y,Zeng X,Li M,Pu Xdoi
10.1007/s00894-013-1807-ysubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-06-01 00:00:00pages
2525-38issue
6eissn
1610-2940issn
0948-5023journal_volume
19pub_type
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