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Sangwook Wu

Pukyong National University, South Korea

Title: Study on the conformational transition between the alternative and collapsed form of prethrombin-2: targeted molecular dynamics and free energy sampling

Biography

Biography: Sangwook Wu

Abstract

The alternative and collapsed forms of prethrombin-2 are revealed by X-ray crystallogrphy. We analyzed the conformational transition from the alternative to the collapsed form employing targeted molecular dynamics simulation and 2-dimensional free energy landscape using WHAM method. Some hydrophobic residues (W60d, W148, W215, and F227) show a significant difference between the two conformations in the conformational transition process. We show that the four hydrophobic residues undergo concerted movement from dimer to trimer transition via tetramer state in the conformational change from the alternative to the collapsed form. Also, we reveal that the concerted movement of the four hydrophobic residues is controlled by movement of specific loop regions behind. In this study, we discuss the difference between the transition path generated by the targeted Mplease let m eD simulation and the transition path with minimum Boltzmann weighting on the two-dimensional free energy surface (FES).  

References:

  1. S. Wu (2016) Loop-driven conformational transition between the alternative and collapsed form of prethrombin-2: Targeted Molecular Dynamics study, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, DOI:10.1080/07391102.2015.1134347.
  2. S. Wu, C. J. Lee, and L. G. Pedersen (2014) Analysis on long-range residue–residue communication using molecular dynamics, Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 82: 2896 .
  3. S. Wu, W. A. Beard, L. G. Pedersen, and S. Wilson (2014) Structural comparison of DNA polymerase architecture suggest a nucleotide gateway to the polymerase active site”, Chemical Review, 114: 2759.
  4. S. Wu, J. Tie, D. W. Stafford, and L. G. Pedersen (2014) Membrane topology for human vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKOR), J Thromb Haemost, 12:112.
  5. S. Wu, S. Liu, S. Sim, L. G. Pedersen (2012) Weak antiferromagnetic coupling via a superexchange interaction between Mn (II)–Mn (II) ions: A QM/MM study of the active site of human cytosolic X-propyl aminopeptidase P”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letter, 3: 2293.