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Wiley, Chemistry - A European Journal, 46(15), p. 12596-12599, 2009

DOI: 10.1002/chem.200902297

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Energy Triplets for Writing Epigenetic Marks: Insights from QM/MM Free-Energy Simulations of Protein Lysine Methyltransferases

Journal article published in 2009 by Qin Xu, Yu-Zhuo Chu, Hao-Bo Guo ORCID, Jeremy C. Smith, Hong Guo
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Abstract

The free-energy profiles that are obtained from quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) free-energy simulations for the first, second and third methyl transfers in DIM-5 (a trimethylase) as well as in some of its mutants with different product specificity has been reported. The free-energy profiles for the first, second and third methyl transfers are plotted or DIM-5 as a function of the reaction coordinates. The QM/MM MD and free-energy (potential of mean force) simulations were applied to characterize the methyl transfers by using the CHARMM program. The stochastic boundary molecular dynamics method was used for the QM/MM MD and free-energy simulations. The initial coordinates for the reactant complexes were based on the crystallographic complex of DIM5. QM/MM MD simulations were carried out for each of the reactant complexes of the methyl transfers, the umbrella sampling method along with the Weighted Histogram Analysis Method (WHAM).