[Investigation of interaction of thrombin-binding aptamer with thrombin and prethrombin-2 by simulation of molecular dynamics]

Biofizika. 2013 May-Jun;58(3):415-24.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Thrombin is a major component of blood clotting and involved in the formation of a fibrin clot. One of the precursors during thrombin maturation is prethrombin-2, with the presence of Arg363-Ile364 bond between the light and heavy chain of protein, the only distinction from thrombin. Prethrombin-2 is able to interact with less efficiency with a 15-mer thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA). We investigate the interaction of both known conformers of TBA with thrombin and prethrombin-2 by simulation of molecular dynamics. It was shown that TBA could interact with thrombin in both conformations with similar efficiency, although a stable complex of prethrombin-2 with TBA was found only in conformation identical with the aptamer structure, pdb 1HAO. Analysis of molecular dynamics of complexes offered an assumption that the motion of the exosite-1 forming loop Lys428-Ile438 determined the difference in affinity of the complexes of TBA with thrombin and prethrombin-2.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aptamers, Peptide / chemistry*
  • Aptamers, Peptide / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation*
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Structure, Secondary
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Prothrombin / chemistry*
  • Prothrombin / metabolism
  • Thrombin / chemistry*
  • Thrombin / metabolism

Substances

  • Aptamers, Peptide
  • Prothrombin
  • prethrombins
  • Thrombin