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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.43.2010.tde-21102010-110913
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Author
Full name
Filipe Camargo Dalmatti Alves Lima
E-mail
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2010
Supervisor
Committee
Petrilli, Helena Maria (President)
Lamy, Maria Teresa Moura
Miotto, Ronei
Title in Portuguese
Modelagem ab initio da interação proteína-carboidrato
Keywords in Portuguese
Biofísica
Física
Física computacional
Física da matéria condensada
Abstract in Portuguese
A Frutalina é uma proteína tetramérica ligante de carboidratos obtida através de sementes Artocarpus incisa. Os interesses biomédicos da Frutalina estão em sua alta afnidade de ligação por carboidratos presentes em algumas células tumorais específicas. Até agora, nenhum estudo teórico computacional foi realizado para investigar as características de ligação da Frutalina. Neste trabalho, através de um estudo multidisciplinar, investigamos as propriedades de ligação e óticas da Frutalina com carboidratos. Utilizamos um modelo-corte teórico, considerando apenas o sítio ativo de ligação com o carboidrato construído com o auxílio de docking molecular e mecânica molecular clássica. As energias de ligação são obtidas através de uma abordagem quântica ab initio all electron, dentro da Teoria do Funcional da Densidade (DFT), no espaço recíproco que combina o método Projector Augmented Waves (PAW) e a dinâmica molecular de Car-Parrinello (CP). Uma metodologia Hartree-Fock (HF) semi-empírica é utilizada para obter as propriedades óticas. A investigação deste problema muito complexo pode ser dividido em seis etapas principais: a) estudamos as propriedades estruturais da proteína para avaliar a sua mobilidade e escolhemos um conjunto de dados de raios-X para descrever o sistema; b) aplicamos a técnica de docking molecular para ligar quatro carboidratos ( alfa-metil-D-galactose, beta-D-galactose, O1-metil-manose e alfa-metil-D-glucopiranose) na proteína; c) otimizamos a geometria do sistema lectina-carboidrato utilizando mecânica molecular clássica; d) criamos o modelo-corte ; e) investigamos as propriedades óticas utilizando HF; f) estudamos as propriedades eletrônicas do sistema proteína-carboidrato e calculamos energias de ligação através do cálculo DFT. O modelo aqui proposto, além de apresentar uma adequada concordância com dados experimentais, abre a possibilidade de investigar propriedades eletrônicas através de uma abordagem quântica estado da arte na área de estrutura eletrônica.
Title in English
Ab initio modeling of protein - carbohydrate interaction
Keywords in English
Biophysics
Computational physics
Condensed matter physics
Physics
Abstract in English
Frutalin is a tetrameric carbohydrate-binding protein obtained from breadfruit seeds. Biomedical interest on Frutalin comes from the high afinity exhibited by these molecules toward carbohydrates expressed by specific tumor cells. So far, no theoretical computational studies have been carried out to investigate the binding characteristics of frutalin, which is probably due to the large number of atoms that should be considered for in silicon calculations. We investigate the binding of frutalin and optical properties with specific carbohydrate molecules using a theoretical cutmodel considering only the carbohydrate binding site. This model has been constructed with the aid of molecular docking and classical molecular mechanics. We use the ab initio all electron reciprocal space Projector Augmented Waves (PAW) method and the Car-Parrinello scheme as embodied in the CP-PAW code to obtain the binding energies. To evaluate the optical properties, we employed the Hartree-Fock Semi-empirical ZINDO method from the Materials Studio 4.0 computational package. The investigation of this very complex problem can be divided into 6 main steps. Firstly, we study the structural properties of the protein to evaluate its mobility and we choose a x-ray data to describe reliably the system. In the second step, we performed molecular docking to link up four carbohydrates (alpha-methyl-D-galactoside, beta-D-galactoside, O1-methyl-mannose and methyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside) in the protein. We optimize the geometry of the system lectin-carbohydrate using molecular mechanics in the third step. In the fourth step, we created the cutmodel based on the final geometries obtained in the previous step. In the fifth and sixth steps we investigate the quantum interaction of the protein with each carbohydrate. Our theoretical results are compared with available measurements in each step. The study of the interaction between the active binding site and carbohydrates allows us to demonstrate that our methodology is well suited to predict the electronic properties of the system.
 
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2010-10-22
 
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