Acetohydroxyacid synthase(AHAS)is the target enzyme of several classes of herbicides,such as sulfonylureas and imidazolinones.Now many mutant AHASs with herbicide resistance have emerged along with extensive use of he...Acetohydroxyacid synthase(AHAS)is the target enzyme of several classes of herbicides,such as sulfonylureas and imidazolinones.Now many mutant AHASs with herbicide resistance have emerged along with extensive use of herbicides,therefore it is imperative to understand the detailed interaction mechanism and resistance mechanism so as to develop new potent inhibitors for wild-type or resistant AHAS.With the aid of available crystal structures of the Arabidopsis thaliana(At)AHAS-inhibitor complex,molecular dynamics(MD)simulations were used to investigate the interaction and resistance mechanism directly and dynamically at the atomic level.Nanosecond-level MD simulations were performed on six systems consisting of wild-type or W574L mutant AtAHAS in the complex with three sulfonylurea inhibitors,separately,and binding free energy was calculated for each system using the MM-GBSA method.Comprehensive analyses from structural and energetic aspects confirmed the importance of residue W574,and also indicated that W574L mutation might alert the structural charactersistic of the substrate access channel and decrease the binding affinity of inhibitors,which cooperatively weaken the effective channel-blocked effect and finally result in weaker inhibitory effect of inhibitor and corresponding herbicide resistance of W574L mutant.To our knowledge,it is the first report about MD simulations study on the AHAS-related system,which will pave the way to study the interactions between herbicides and wild-type or mutant AHAS dynamically,and decipher the resistance mechanism at the atomic level for better designing new potent anti-resistance herbicides.展开更多
The possible inclusion modes of berberine（Berb） with β-cyclodextrin（BCD） in aqueous solution were predicted by molecular docking,molecular dynamics（MD） simulation and binding free energy calculations.Firstly,th...The possible inclusion modes of berberine（Berb） with β-cyclodextrin（BCD） in aqueous solution were predicted by molecular docking,molecular dynamics（MD） simulation and binding free energy calculations.Firstly,the molecular docking result reveals that the docking conformations of Berb appeared in two clusters ranked in two opposite orientations.Then,10 ns MD simulation was performed separately on the lowest energy conformation of each orientation（Mode I and Mode II） obtained by molecular docking.Moreover,based on the trajectories from MD simulation,the binding free energies of the two different modes were calculated by the Molecular Mechanics/Poisson Boltzmann surface area（MM/PBSA） method.Through analyzing the binding free energies of Berb with BCD,we found that Mode II was the preferential inclusion mode,which was in good agreement with the experimental result.In addition,the computed results show that the main impetus for the complex was the van der Waals interaction,but the solvation energy and the entropy change produced an adverse effect on the complex.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.20432010,20421202,and 90713011)the National Key Project for Basic Research(Grant Nos.2008DFA30770 and 2010CB126102)Key Project of Ministry of Education,China(Grant No.104189)and Institute of Scientific Computing(ISC)of Nankai University
文摘Acetohydroxyacid synthase(AHAS)is the target enzyme of several classes of herbicides,such as sulfonylureas and imidazolinones.Now many mutant AHASs with herbicide resistance have emerged along with extensive use of herbicides,therefore it is imperative to understand the detailed interaction mechanism and resistance mechanism so as to develop new potent inhibitors for wild-type or resistant AHAS.With the aid of available crystal structures of the Arabidopsis thaliana(At)AHAS-inhibitor complex,molecular dynamics(MD)simulations were used to investigate the interaction and resistance mechanism directly and dynamically at the atomic level.Nanosecond-level MD simulations were performed on six systems consisting of wild-type or W574L mutant AtAHAS in the complex with three sulfonylurea inhibitors,separately,and binding free energy was calculated for each system using the MM-GBSA method.Comprehensive analyses from structural and energetic aspects confirmed the importance of residue W574,and also indicated that W574L mutation might alert the structural charactersistic of the substrate access channel and decrease the binding affinity of inhibitors,which cooperatively weaken the effective channel-blocked effect and finally result in weaker inhibitory effect of inhibitor and corresponding herbicide resistance of W574L mutant.To our knowledge,it is the first report about MD simulations study on the AHAS-related system,which will pave the way to study the interactions between herbicides and wild-type or mutant AHAS dynamically,and decipher the resistance mechanism at the atomic level for better designing new potent anti-resistance herbicides.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 20975081)the Open Foundation of the Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecular Chemistry of Ministry of Education,China(No.KF09014)the Northwest University Graduate Cross-discipline Funds,China(No.09YJC18)
文摘The possible inclusion modes of berberine（Berb） with β-cyclodextrin（BCD） in aqueous solution were predicted by molecular docking,molecular dynamics（MD） simulation and binding free energy calculations.Firstly,the molecular docking result reveals that the docking conformations of Berb appeared in two clusters ranked in two opposite orientations.Then,10 ns MD simulation was performed separately on the lowest energy conformation of each orientation（Mode I and Mode II） obtained by molecular docking.Moreover,based on the trajectories from MD simulation,the binding free energies of the two different modes were calculated by the Molecular Mechanics/Poisson Boltzmann surface area（MM/PBSA） method.Through analyzing the binding free energies of Berb with BCD,we found that Mode II was the preferential inclusion mode,which was in good agreement with the experimental result.In addition,the computed results show that the main impetus for the complex was the van der Waals interaction,but the solvation energy and the entropy change produced an adverse effect on the complex.
