Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2010, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (1): 118-121.

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Theoretical Design of Catalytic Domain of Abzyme Se-scFv2F3 by Introducing a Catalytic Triad

LUO Quan, ZHOU Yi-han, YAO Yuan and LI Ze-sheng*   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130021, P. R. China
  • Received:2009-01-16 Revised:2009-03-17 Online:2010-01-04 Published:2010-03-29
  • Contact: LI Ze-sheng. E-mail: zeshengli@mail.jlu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.20333050, 20673044), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China(No.IRT0625) and Key Subject of Science and Technology by Jilin Province, China.

Abstract:

The single chain antibody scFv2F3 can be converted into selenium-containing Se-scFv2F3 by chemical mutation of the Ser residues. With antibody fragment 1NQB as a template, the catalytic domain of scFv2F3 was built by using homology modeling and molecular dynamics(MD) simulations. On the basis of the 3D model, we discussed the importance of Ser52 as the chemical modification site and redesigned the protein groups nearby Ser52 via introducing a catalytic triad. The following 10 ns MD results show that the designed Ser52-Trp29-Gln72 catalytic triad is stable enough and high close to the local structural features of native glutathione peroxidases(GPX). Our results may be useful for creating a new abzyme with higher catalytic efficiency and stability.

Key words: Abzyme; scFv2F3; Homology modeling; Molecular dynamics simulation