Application of a SCC-DFTB QM/MM approach to the investigation of the catalytic mechanism of fatty acid amide hydrolase

Abstract Self-consistent charge density functional tight binding (SCC-DFTB) is a promising method for hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The acylation reaction of fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), a promising drug target, was investigated by applying a SCC-DFTB/CHARMM27 scheme. Calculated potential energy barriers resulted in reasonable agreement with experiments for oleamide (OA) and oleoylmethyl ester (OME) substrates, outperforming previous calculations performed at the PM3/CHARMM22 level. Furthermore, the experimental preference of FAAH in hydrolyzing OA faster than OME was adequately reproduced by calculations. All these findings indicate that the SCC-DFTB/CHARMM27 approach can be successfully applied to mechanistic investigations of FAAH-catalyzed reactions..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2011

Erschienen:

2011

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

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Journal of molecular modeling - 17(2011), 9 vom: 02. März, Seite 2375-2383

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Capoferri, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
Mor, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Sirirak, Jitnapa [VerfasserIn]
Chudyk, Ewa [VerfasserIn]
Mulholland, Adrian J. [VerfasserIn]
Lodola, Alessio [VerfasserIn]

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35.06$jComputeranwendungen$XChemie

Themen:

Computational enzymology
FAAH
QM/MM
Reaction mechanism
SCC-DFTB

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© Springer-Verlag 2011

doi:

10.1007/s00894-011-0981-z

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OLC2051449589