Binding of benzylpencillin to metallo-beta-lactamase: A QM/MM study
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The binding of benzylpencillin to mono-zinc metallo-beta-lactamase from bacillus cereus is investigated in a docking procedure applying a combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical method. It is demonstrated that the substitute could bind with the carbonyl oxygen of the lactum ring coordinating to the zinc ion and with the zinc-bound hydroxide ion in position for a nucleophilic attack on the carbonyl carbon of the lactum ring.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2004
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Dynamics of water molecules in the active-site cavity of human cytochromes P450
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Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the dynamics of water molecules in six crystal structures of four human cytochromes P450, 2A6, 2C8, 2C9, and 3A4. The results have shown no water molecules close to the heme iron ion in these simulations of the high-spin ferric state and a few ordered water molecules in the active sites, none of which is conserved in all proteins.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2007
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Lactam hydrolysis catalyzed by mononuclear metallo-beta-lactamases: a density functional study
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The density functional method is used to study the breakdown of the tetrahedral intermediate by proton transfer. The hydrolysis of lactam antibiotics are catalyzed by mononuclear metallo-beta-lactamases.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2003
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