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Reconciling conformational heterogeneity and substrate recognition in cytochrome P450.


ABSTRACT: Cytochrome P450, the ubiquitous metalloenzyme involved in detoxification of foreign components, has remained one of the most popular systems for substrate-recognition process. However, despite being known for its high substrate specificity, the mechanistic basis of substrate-binding by archetypal system cytochrome P450cam has remained at odds with the contrasting reports of multiple diverse crystallographic structures of its substrate-free form. Here, we address this issue by elucidating the probability of mutual dynamical transition to the other crystallographic pose of cytochrome P450cam and vice versa via unbiased all-atom computer simulation. A robust Markov state model, constructed using adaptively sampled 84-μs-long molecular dynamics simulation trajectories, maps the broad and heterogenous P450cam conformational landscape into five key substates. In particular, the Markov state model identifies an intermediate-assisted dynamic equilibrium between a pair of conformations of P450cam, in which the substrate-recognition sites remain "closed" and "open," respectively. However, the estimate of a significantly higher stationary population of closed conformation, coupled with faster rate of open → closed transition than its reverse process, dictates that the net conformational equilibrium would be swayed in favor of "closed" conformation. Together, the investigation quantitatively infers that although a potential substrate of cytochrome P450cam would, in principle, explore a diverse array of conformations of substrate-free protein, it would mostly encounter a "closed" or solvent-occluded conformation and hence would follow an induced-fit-based recognition process. Overall, the work reconciles multiple precedent crystallographic, spectroscopic investigations and establishes how a statistical elucidation of conformational heterogeneity in protein would provide crucial insights in the mechanism of potential substrate-recognition process.

SUBMITTER: Dandekar BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204291 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Reconciling conformational heterogeneity and substrate recognition in cytochrome P450.

Dandekar Bhupendra R BR   Ahalawat Navjeet N   Mondal Jagannath J  

Biophysical journal 20210304 9


Cytochrome P450, the ubiquitous metalloenzyme involved in detoxification of foreign components, has remained one of the most popular systems for substrate-recognition process. However, despite being known for its high substrate specificity, the mechanistic basis of substrate-binding by archetypal system cytochrome P450cam has remained at odds with the contrasting reports of multiple diverse crystallographic structures of its substrate-free form. Here, we address this issue by elucidating the pro  ...[more]

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