Title
Effect of pH on the supramolecular structure of helicobacter pylori urease by molecular dynamics simulations
Date Issued
02 November 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
The effect of pH on the supramolecular structure of Helicobacter pylori urease was studied by means of molecular dynamics simulations at seven different pHs. Appropriate urease charge distributions were calculated using a semi-grand canonical Monte Carlo (SGCMC) procedure that assigns each residue’s charge state depending on the assigned individual pKa obtained by PROPKA. The effect of pH on protein stability has been analyzed through root-mean-square deviation (RMSD), radius of gyration (RG), solvent-accessible surface area (SASA), hydrogen bonds (HB) and salt bridges (SB). Urease catalyses the hydrolysis of urea in 12 active sites that are covered by mobile regions that act like flaps. The mobility of these flaps is increased at acidic pHs. However, extreme acidic conditions cause urease to have the least number of stabilizing interactions. This initiates the process of denaturalization, wherein the four (αβ)3 subunits of the global structure ((αβ)3)4 of urease start to separate.
Start page
1
End page
13
Volume
12
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia de los polímeros
Química física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85096116126
Source
Polymers
ISSN of the container
20734360
Source funding
European Commission
Sponsor(s)
Funding: S.M. and F.M. acknowledge the financial support from Generalitat de Catalunya (grants 2017SGR1033 and XrQTC), the Spanish Structures of Excellence María de Maeztu program through (grant MDM-2017–0767) and the funding of the EU project 8SEWP-HORIZON 2020 (692146). H.B.-C. acknowledges the support from project 25190-R-2018 UCSM
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