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SUBMITTER: Shi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3621114 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shi Yawei Y Zhou Yanzi Y Wang Shenglong S Zhang Yingkai Y
The journal of physical chemistry letters 20130201 3
Sirtuins constitute a novel family of protein deacetylases and play critical roles in epigenetics, cell death, and metabolism. In spite of numerous experimental studies, the key and most complicated stage of its NAD<sup>+</sup>-dependent catalytic mechanism remains to be elusive. Herein by employing Born-Oppenheimer <i>ab initio</i> QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations, a state-of-the-art computational approach to study enzyme reactions, we have characterized the complete deacetylation mechanism ...[more]