• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1742-1750
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• 2003

In order to characterize the hydrophobic parameters of N-acetyl amino acid amides in 1-octanol/water, a theoretical calculation was carried out using a solvation free energy density model. The hydrophobicity parameters of the molecules are obtained with the consideration of the solvation free energy over the solvent volume surrounding the solute, using a grid model. Our method can account for the solvent accessible surface area of the molecules according to conformational variations. Through a comparison of the hydrophobicity of our calculation and that of other experimental/theoretical works, the solvation free energy density model is proven to be a useful tool for the evaluation of the hydrophobicity of amino acids and peptides. In order to evaluate the solvation free energy density model as a method of calculating the activity of drugs using the hydrophobicity of its building blocks, the contracture of Bradykinin potentiating pentapeptide was also predicted from the hydrophobicity of each residue. The solvation free energy density model can be used to employ descriptors for the prediction of peptide activities in drug discovery, as well as to calculate the hydrophobicity of amino acids.

• EDISON SW 활용 경진대회 논문집
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• 제4회(2015년)
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• pp.70-75
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• 2015

Fasciclin 1 (FAS1) is an extracellular protein whose aggregation in cornea leads to visual impairment. While a number of FAS1 mutants have been studied that exhibit enhanced/decreased aggregation propensity, no structural information has been provided so far that is associated with distinct aggregation potential. In this study, we have investigated the structural and thermodynamic characteristics of the wild-type FAS1 and its two mutants, R555Q and R555W, by using molecular dynamics simulations and three-dimensional reference interaction site model (3D-RISM) theory. We find that the hydrophobic solvent accessible surface area increases due to hydrophobic core repacking in the C-terminus caused by the mutation. We also find that the solvation free energy of the mutants increases due to the enhanced non-native H-bonding. These structural and thermodynamic changes upon mutation contribute to understand the aggregation of these mutants.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2004

Ubiquitin 폴딩 반응의 초기에 나타나는 transient 폴딩 intermediate 상태의 열역학적인 특성을 연구하였다. 온도와 화학변성제의 농도를 바꾸어주면서 측정한 폴딩 kinetics의 결과로부터 unfolded 상태와 intermediate 상태의 평형상수 및 자유에너지를 quantitative kinetic modeling을 통하여서 구하였으며 또한 온도에 따른 자유에너지의 변화로부터 unfolded 상태에서 intermediate 상태로 전환될 때의 열역학적 함수인 ${\Delta}H,\;{\Delta}S,\;{\Delta}C_p$를 구하였다. Ubiquitin이 unfolded 상태에서 intermediate 상태가 될 때의 ${\Delta}C_p$는 unfolded 상태에서 native 상태로 되는 과정의 ${\Delta}C_p$의 약 80% 정도 되었다. 이것은 intermediate가 native 상태에 가까운 매우 조밀한 구조를 이루고 있는 ensemble state임을 나타낸다. 상온에서의 ${\Delta}H$는 양의 값을 보였다. 이는 ubiquitin의 unfolded 상태에서 소수성 잔기 주위에 위치한 물 분자의 규칙적인 구조가 intermediate 상태가 될 때 와해되기 때문이라고 여겨진다. 이러한 양의 enthalpy는 자유로워진 물 분자에 의한 전체 계의 entropy의 증가에 의하여서 보상되어 unfolded 상태에서intermediate 상태로의 전환은 음의 자유에너지를 갖게 되며 폴딩 반응의 초기에 관찰되는 것으로 여겨진다.