Abstract：
:The antifungal polyene antibiotic amphotericin B forms channels in lipid membranes that are permeable to ions, water, and nonelectrolytes. Anion, cation, and ion pair coordination in the water-filled pore of the "barrel" unit of the channels was studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Unlike the case of the gramicidin A channel, the water molecules do not create a single-file configuration in the pore, and some cross sections of the channel contain three or four water molecules. Both the anion and cation are strongly bound to ligand groups and water molecules located in the channel. The coordination number of the ions is about six. The chloride has two binding sites in the pore. The binding with water is dominant; more than four water molecules are localized in the anion coordination sphere. Three motifs of the ion coordination were monitored. The dominant motif occurs when the anion is bound to one ligand group. The ion is bound to two or three ligand groups in the less favorable configurations. The strong affinity of cations to the channel is determined by the negatively charged ligand oxygens, whose electrostatic field dominates over the field of the hydrogens. The ligand contribution to the coordination number of the sodium ion is noticeably higher than in the case of the anion. As in the case of the anion, there are three motifs of the cation coordination. The favorable one occurs when the cation is bound to two ligand oxygens. In the less favorable cases, the cation is bound to three or four oxygens. In the contact ion pair, the cation and anion are bound to two ligand oxygens and one ligand hydrogen, respectively. There exist intermediate solvent-shared states of the ion pair. The average distances between ions in these states are twice as large as that of the contact ion pair. The stability of the solvent-shared state is defined by the water molecule oriented along the electrostatic field of both ions.
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Khutorsky Vdoi
10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79491-2subject
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1996-12-01 00:00:00pages
2984-95issue
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