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Long range molecular dynamics study of interactions of the eukaryotic glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase with fructose-6-phosphate and UDP-GlcNAc
Abstract
Glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase (EC 2.6.1.16) is responsible for catalysis of the first and practically irreversible step in hexosamine metabolism. The final product of this pathway, uridine 5 diphospho Nacetyl- d-glucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc), is an essential substrate for assembly of bacterial and fungal cell walls. Moreover, the enzyme is involved in phenomenon of hexosamine induced insulin resistance in type II diabetes, which makes of it a potential target for anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-diabetic therapy. The crystal structure of isomerase domain from human pathogenic fungus Candida albicans has been solved recently but it doesn’t reveal the molecular mechanism details of inhibition taking place under UDP-GlcNAc influence, the unique feature of eukaryotic enzyme. The following study is a continuation of the previous research based on comparative molecular dynamics simulations of the structures with and without the enzyme’s physiological inhibitor (UDP-GlcNAc) bound. The models used for this study included fructose-6-phosphate, one of the enzyme’s substrates in its binding pocket. The simulation results studies demonstrated differences in mobility of the compared structures. Some amino acid residues were determined, for which flexibility is evidently different between the models. Importantly, it has been confirmed that the most fixed residues are related to the inhibitor binding process and to the catalysis reaction. The obtained results constitute an important step towards understanding of the inhibition that GlcN-6-P synthase is subjected by UDP-GlcNAc molecule
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- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING
no. 78,
pages 14 - 25,
ISSN: 1093-3263 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Bibliographic description:
- Miszkiel A., Wojciechowski M.: Long range molecular dynamics study of interactions of the eukaryotic glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase with fructose-6-phosphate and UDP-GlcNAc// JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR GRAPHICS & MODELLING. -Vol. 78, (2017), s.14-25
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.jmgm.2017.09.009
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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