元动力学
化学
能源景观
分子动力学
过渡状态
构象集合
反作用坐标
路径(计算)
立体化学
化学物理
结晶学
计算化学
生物化学
计算机科学
催化作用
程序设计语言
作者
Tao Jiang,Zhenhao Liu,Wenlang Liu,Jiawen Chen,Zheng Zheng,Mojie Duan
标识
DOI:10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00770
摘要
Protein kinases intrinsically translate their conformations between active and inactive states, which is key to their enzymatic activities. The conformational flipping of the three-residue conservative motif, Asp-Phe-Gly (DFG), is crucial for many kinases’ biological functions. Obtaining a detailed demonstration of the DFG flipping process and its corresponding dynamical and thermodynamical features could broaden our understanding of kinases’ conformation-activity relationship. In this study, we employed metadynamics simulation, a widely used enhanced sampling technique, to analyze the conformational transition pathways of the DFG flipping for the c-Met kinase. The corresponding free energy landscape suggested two distinct transition pathways between the “DFG-in” and “DFG-out” states of the DFG-flip from c-Met. On the basis of the orientation direction of the F1223 residue, we correspondingly named the two pathways the “DFG-up” path, featuring forming a commonly discovered “DFG-up” transition state, and the “DFG-down” path, a unique transition pathway with F1223 rotating along the opposite direction away from the hydrophobic cavity. The free energies along the two pathways were then calculated using the Path Collective Variable (PCV) metadynamics simulation. The simulation results showed that, though having similar free energy barriers, the free energy cuve for the DFG-down path suggested a two-step conformational transition mechanism, while that for the DFG-up path showed the one-step transition feature. The c-Met DFG flipping mechanism and the new intermediate state discovered in this work could provide a deeper understanding of the conformation-activity relationship for c-Met and, possibly, reveal a new conformational state as the drug target for c-Met and other similar kinases.
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