UO<sub>2</sub><sup>2+</sup> Uptake by Proteins : Understanding the Binding Features of the Super Uranyl-Binding Protein and Design of a Protein with Higher Affinity. - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
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UO22+ Uptake by Proteins : Understanding the Binding Features of the Super Uranyl-Binding Protein and Design of a Protein with Higher Affinity.

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The capture of uranyl, UO22+, by a recently engineered protein (Zhou et al. Nat. Chem.2014, 6, 236) with high selectivity and femtomolar sensitivity has been examined by a combination of density functional theory, molecular dynamics, and free-energy simulations. It was found that UO22+ is coordinated to five carboxylate oxygen atoms from four amino acid residues of the super uranyl binding protein (SUP). A network of hydrogen bonds between the amino acid residues coordinated to UO22+ and residues in its second coordination sphere also affects the protein’s uranyl binding affinity. Free-energy simulations show how UO22+ capture is governed by the nature of the amino acid residues in the binding site, the integrity and strength of the second-sphere hydrogen bond network, and the number of water molecules in the first coordination sphere. Alteration of any of these three factors through mutations generally results in a reduction of the binding free energy of UO22+ to the aqueous protein as well as of the difference between the binding free energies of UO22+ and other ions (Ca2+, Cu2+, Mg2+, and Zn2+), a proxy for the protein’s selectivity over these ions. The results of our free-energy simulations confirmed the previously reported experimental results and allowed us to discover a mutant of SUP, specifically the GLU64ASP mutant, that not only binds UO22+ more strongly than SUP but that is also more selective for UO22+ over other ions. The predictions from the computations were confirmed experimentally.
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hal-01219472 , version 1 (22-10-2015)

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Samuel O. Odoh, G.C. Bondarevsky, J. Karpus, Q. Cui, C. He, et al.. UO22+ Uptake by Proteins : Understanding the Binding Features of the Super Uranyl-Binding Protein and Design of a Protein with Higher Affinity.. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136 (50), pp.17484-17494. ⟨10.1021/JA5087563⟩. ⟨hal-01219472⟩
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