Área de investigación | Química y Ciencia y Tecnología de los Materiales |
Título | Modeling catalytic reaction mechanisms in glycoside hydrolases |
Tipo de publicación | Artículo de revista |
Año de publicación | 2019 |
Autores | Coines, J, Raich, L, Rovira, C |
Revista | Current Opinion in Chemical Biology |
Volumen | 53 |
Páginas | 183 - 191 |
Palabras claves | Enzyme mechanisms, Glycosidases, Metadynamics, Molecular dynamics, Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics, Sugar conformation |
Abstract | Modeling catalysis in carbohydrate-active enzymes is a daunting challenge because of the high flexibility and diversity of both enzymes and carbohydrates. Glycoside hydrolases (GHs) are an illustrative example, where conformational changes and subtle interactions have been shown to be critical for catalysis. GHs have pivotal roles in industry (e.g. biofuel or detergent production) and biomedicine (e.g. targets for cancer and diabetes), and thus, a huge effort is devoted to unveil their molecular mechanisms. Besides experimental techniques, computational methods have served to provide an in-depth understanding of GH mechanisms, capturing complex reaction coordinates and the conformational itineraries that substrates follow during the whole catalytic pathway, providing a framework that ultimately may assist the engineering of these enzymes and the design of new inhibitors. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.cbpa.2019.09.007 |