Cryo-Cooling Effect on DHFR Crystal Studied by Replica-Exchange Molecular Dynamics Simulations |
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Authors: | Tetsuro Nagai Florence Tama Osamu Miyashita |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;2. ITbM, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan;3. RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan |
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Abstract: | Cryo-cooling is routinely performed before x-ray diffraction image collection to reduce the damage to crystals due to ionizing radiation. It has been suggested that although backbone structures are usually very similar between room temperature and cryo-temperature, cryo-cooling may hamper biologically relevant dynamics. In this study, the crystal of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase is studied with replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulation, and the results are compared with the crystal structure determined at cryo-temperature and room temperature with the time-averaged ensemble method. Although temperature dependence of unit cell compaction and root mean-square fluctuation of Cα is found in accord with experiment, it is found that the protein structure at low temperature can be more heterogeneous than the ensemble of structures reported by using the time-averaged ensemble method, encouraging further development of the time-averaged ensemble method and indicating that data should be examined carefully to avoid overinterpretation of one average structure. |
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