Solvent-dependent gating motions of an extremophilic lipase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Understanding how organic solvent-stable proteins can function in anhydrous and often complex solutions is essential for the study of the interaction of protein and molecular immiscible interfaces and the design of efficient industrial enzymes in nonaqueous solvents. Using an extremophilic lipase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an example, we investigated the conformational dynamics of an organic solvent-tolerant enzyme in complex solvent milieux. Four 100-ns molecular dynamics simulations of the lipase were performed in solvent systems: water, hexane, and two mixtures of hexane and water, 5% and 95% (w/w) hexane. Our results show a solvent-dependent structural change of the protein, especially in the region that regulates the admission of the substrate. We observed that the lipase is much less flexible in hexane than in aqueous solution or at the immiscible interface. Quantified by the size of the accessible channel, the lipase in water has a closed-gate conformation and no access to the active site, while in the hexane-containing systems, the lipase is at various degrees of open-gate state, with the immiscible interface setup being in the widely open conformation ensembles. Furthermore, the composition of explicit solvents in the access channel showed a significant influence on the conformational dynamics of the protein. Interestingly, the slowest step (bottleneck) of the hexane-induced conformational switch seems to be correlated with the slow dehydration dynamics of the channel.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1265971
- Journal Information:
- Biochemistry, Vol. 51, Issue 31; ISSN 0006-2960
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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