Volume 51, Number 4, 603-614, DOI: 10.1134/S0006350906040142

Molecular dynamics simulation of the substitution of serine for the conserved glycine in the G-loop in the cdc28-srm yeast mutant using the crystal lattice of human CDK2 kinase

Kh. T. Kholmurodov, D. A. Kretov, A. S. Gerasimova and N. A. Koltovaya

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Abstract

Two-nanosecond molecular dynamics simulations of the crystal lattice of an active complex of pT160-CDK2 kinase/cyclin A/ATP-Mg2+/substrate were performed. The simulations showed that the structures of the wild-type CDK2 complex and the mutant CDK2 complex involving the substitution G16S-CDK2 corresponding to the yeast substitution G20S-CDC28 differ noticeably and the differences between the structural conformations are most pronounced in the regions that play a key role in the kinase functioning. The results of the computer calculations were used to consider the structural elements that may affect the kinase activity, the regulatory phosphorylation, and the binding of protein kinase with cyclins and substrates.

Key words  CDC28 protein kinase - amino acid substitutions - molecular dynamics simulations

Original Russian Text © Kh.T. Kholmurodov, D.A. Kretov, A.S. Gerasimova, N.A. Koltovaya, 2006, published in Biofizika, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 679–691.

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