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SUBMITTER: Henderson JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6467052 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henderson Jack A JA Harris Robert C RC Tsai Cheng-Chieh CC Shen Jana J
The journal of physical chemistry letters 20180910 18
The role of water in protein-ligand binding has been an intensely studied topic in recent years; however, how ligand protonation state change perturbs water has not been considered. Here we show that water dynamics and interactions can be controlled by the protonation state of ligand using continuous constant pH molecular dynamics simulations of two closely related model systems, β-secretase 1 and 2 (BACE1 and BACE2), in complex with a small-molecule inhibitor. Simulations revealed that, upon bi ...[more]