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Liu Q, Gao J, Zhang Y, Liu X, Zhang X, Lin Q, Zeng W, Zhou Z. A trans-ortho asymmetrically di-strapped metalloporphyrin integrating three key structural features of ligand in heme. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/15/2023]
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Gardner PR. Ordered Motions in the Nitric-Oxide Dioxygenase Mechanism of Flavohemoglobin and Assorted Globins with Tightly Coupled Reductases. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2022; 1414:45-96. [PMID: 36520413 DOI: 10.1007/5584_2022_751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Nitric-oxide dioxygenases (NODs) activate and combine O2 with NO to form nitrate. A variety of oxygen-binding hemoglobins with associated partner reductases or electron donors function as enzymatic NODs. Kinetic and structural investigations of the archetypal two-domain microbial flavohemoglobin-NOD have illuminated an allosteric mechanism that employs selective tunnels for O2 and NO, gates for NO and nitrate, transient O2 association with ferric heme, and an O2 and NO-triggered, ferric heme spin crossover-driven, motion-controlled, and dipole-regulated electron-transfer switch. The proposed mechanism facilitates radical-radical coupling of ferric-superoxide with NO to form nitrate while preventing suicidal ferrous-NO formation. Diverse globins display the structural and functional motifs necessary for a similar allosteric NOD mechanism. In silico docking simulations reveal monomeric erythrocyte hemoglobin alpha-chain and beta-chain intrinsically matched and tightly coupled with NADH-cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase and NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase, respectively, forming membrane-bound flavohemoglobin-like mammalian NODs. The neuroprotective neuroglobin manifests a potential NOD role in a close-fitting ternary complex with membrane-bound NADH-cytochrome b5 oxidoreductase and cytochrome b5. Cytoglobin interfaces weakly with cytochrome b5 for O2 and NO-regulated electron-transfer and coupled NOD activity. The mechanistic model also provides insight into the evolution of O2 binding cooperativity in hemoglobin and a basis for the discovery of allosteric NOD inhibitors.
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Olson JS. Kinetic mechanisms for O 2 binding to myoglobins and hemoglobins. Mol Aspects Med 2021; 84:101024. [PMID: 34544605 DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2021.101024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Antonini and Brunori's 1971 book "Hemoglobin and Myoglobin in Their Reactions with Ligands" was a truly remarkable publication that summarized almost 100 years of research on O2 binding to these globins. Over the ensuing 50 years, ultra-fast laser photolysis techniques, high-resolution and time resolved X-ray crystallography, molecular dynamics simulations, and libraries of recombinant myoglobin (Mb) and hemoglobin (Hb) variants have provided structural interpretations of O2 binding to these proteins. The resultant mechanisms provide quantitative descriptions of the stereochemical factors that govern overall affinity, including proximal and distal steric restrictions that affect iron reactivity and favorable positive electrostatic interactions that preferentially stabilize bound O2. The pathway for O2 uptake and release by Mb and subunits of Hb has been mapped by screening libraries of site-directed mutants in laser photolysis experiments. O2 enters mammalian Mb and the α and β subunits of human HbA through a channel created by upward and outward rotation of the distal His at the E7 helical position, is non-covalently captured in the interior of the distal cavity, and then internally forms a bond with the heme Fe(II) atom. O2 dissociation is governed by disruption of hydrogen bonding interactions with His (E7), breakage of the Fe(II)-O2 bond, and then competition between rebinding and escape through the E7-gate. The structural features that govern the rates of both the individual steps and overall reactions have been determined and provide the framework for: (1) defining the physiological functions of specific globins and their evolution; (2) understanding the clinical features of hemoglobinopathies; and (3) designing safer and more efficient acellular hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) for transfusion therapy, organ preservation, and other commercially relevant O2 transport and storage processes.
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- John S Olson
- Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
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Human hemoglobin is the textbook example of the stereochemistry of an allosteric protein and of the exquisite control that a protein can exert over ligand binding. However, the fundamental basis by which the protein facilitates the ligand movement remains unknown. In this study, we used cryogenic X-ray crystallography and a high-repetition pulsed laser irradiation technique to elucidate the atomic details of ligand migration processes in hemoglobin after photolysis of the bound CO. Our data clarify the distinct CO migration pathways in the individual subunits of hemoglobin and unravel the functional roles of the internal cavities and neighboring amino acid residues in ligand exit and entry. Our results also demonstrate the high gas permeability and porosity of hemoglobin, facilitating O2 delivery. Hemoglobin is one of the best-characterized proteins with respect to structure and function, but the internal ligand diffusion pathways remain obscure and controversial. Here we captured the CO migration processes in the tense (T), relaxed (R), and second relaxed (R2) quaternary structures of human hemoglobin by crystallography using a high-repetition pulsed laser technique at cryogenic temperatures. We found that in each quaternary structure, the photodissociated CO molecules migrate along distinct pathways in the α and β subunits by hopping between the internal cavities with correlated side chain motions of large nonpolar residues, such as α14Trp(A12), α105Leu(G12), β15Trp(A12), and β71Phe(E15). We also observe electron density evidence for the distal histidine [α58/β63His(E7)] swing-out motion regardless of the quaternary structure, although less evident in α subunits than in β subunits, suggesting that some CO molecules have escaped directly through the E7 gate. Remarkably, in T-state Fe(II)-Ni(II) hybrid hemoglobins in which either the α or β subunits contain Ni(II) heme that cannot bind CO, the photodissociated CO molecules not only dock at the cavities in the original Fe(II) subunit, but also escape from the protein matrix and enter the cavities in the adjacent Ni(II) subunit even at 95 K, demonstrating the high gas permeability and porosity of the hemoglobin molecule. Our results provide a comprehensive picture of ligand movements in hemoglobin and highlight the relevance of cavities, nonpolar residues, and distal histidines in facilitating the ligand migration.
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Butcher D, Moussaoui M, Baciou L, Miksovska J. Impact of azole drugs on energetics, kinetics, and ligand migration pathways of CO photo-dissociation in bacterial flavohemoglobins. RSC Adv 2020; 10:17930-17941. [PMID: 35515592 PMCID: PMC9053618 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra02529a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Flavohemoglobins (fHbs) are heme proteins found in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes. They are involved in NO detoxification through an NO˙ dioxygenase mechanism. The N-terminal heme globin domain allows for binding of gaseous ligands whereas a C-terminal NADH/FADH binding domain facilitates association of redox cofactors necessary for ligand reduction. The NO˙ dioxygenase function is important in facilitating immune resistance by protecting the cell from nitrosative stress brought about by a host organism; as a result, bacterial flavoHbs have recently been considered as targets for the development of new antibiotics. Here, photoacoustic calorimetry and transient absorption spectroscopy have been used to characterize energetics, structural dynamics, and kinetics of CO migration within bacterial flavoHbs from Ralstonia eutropha (FHP) and Staphylococcus aureus (HMPSa) in the presence and absence of antibiotic azole compounds. In FHP, the ligand photo-release is associated with ΔH = 26.2 ± 7.0 kcal mol−1 and ΔV = 25.0 ± 1.5 mL mol−1 while in HMPSa, ΔH = 34.7 ± 8.0 kcal mol−1 and ΔV = 28.6 ± 17 mL mol−1 were observed, suggesting distinct structural changes associated with ligand escape from FHP and HMPSa. In the presence of ketoconazole, the CO escape leads to a more negative enthalpy change and volume change whereas association of miconazole to FHP or HMPSa does not impact the reaction volume. These data are in agreement with the computational results that propose distinct binding sites for ketoconazole and miconazole on CO bound FHP. Miconazole or ketoconazole binding to either protein has only a negligible impact on the CO association rates, indicating that azole drugs do not impact flavoHbs interactions with gaseous ligands but may inhibit the NOD activity through preventing the electron transfer between FAD and heme cofactors. Impact of ketoconalzole and miconazole on structural dynamics of flavohemoglobin.![]()
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- David Butcher
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Florida International University
- Miami
- USA
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique
- UMR8000
- Université Paris Sud
- CNRS
- Université Paris Saclay
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Physique
- UMR8000
- Université Paris Sud
- CNRS
- Université Paris Saclay
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Florida International University
- Miami
- USA
- Biomolecular Sciences Institute
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Terrell JR, Gumpper RH, Luo M. Hemoglobin crystals immersed in liquid oxygen reveal diffusion channels. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 495:1858-1863. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.12.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Vitvitsky V, Yadav PK, An S, Seravalli J, Cho US, Banerjee R. Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Hemoglobin-catalyzed Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation and the Fate of Polysulfide Products. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:5584-5592. [PMID: 28213526 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.774943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Hydrogen sulfide is a cardioprotective signaling molecule but is toxic at elevated concentrations. Red blood cells can synthesize H2S but, lacking organelles, cannot dispose of H2S via the mitochondrial sulfide oxidation pathway. We have recently shown that at high sulfide concentrations, ferric hemoglobin oxidizes H2S to a mixture of thiosulfate and iron-bound polysulfides in which the latter species predominates. Here, we report the crystal structure of human hemoglobin containing low spin ferric sulfide, the first intermediate in heme-catalyzed sulfide oxidation. The structure provides molecular insights into why sulfide is susceptible to oxidation in human hemoglobin but is stabilized against it in HbI, a specialized sulfide-carrying hemoglobin from a mollusk adapted to life in a sulfide-rich environment. We have also captured a second sulfide bound at a postulated ligand entry/exit site in the α-subunit of hemoglobin, which, to the best of our knowledge, represents the first direct evidence for this site being used to access the heme iron. Hydrodisulfide, a postulated intermediate at the junction between thiosulfate and polysulfide formation, coordinates ferric hemoglobin and, in the presence of air, generated thiosulfate. At low sulfide/heme iron ratios, the product distribution between thiosulfate and iron-bound polysulfides was approximately equal. The iron-bound polysulfides were unstable at physiological glutathione concentrations and were reduced with concomitant formation of glutathione persulfide, glutathione disulfide, and H2S. Hence, although polysulfides are unlikely to be stable in the reducing intracellular milieu, glutathione persulfide could serve as a persulfide donor for protein persulfidation, a posttranslational modification by which H2S is postulated to signal.
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- Victor Vitvitsky
- From the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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- From the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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- From the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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- the Department of Biochemistry and the Redox Biology Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
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- From the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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- From the Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 and
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Esquerra RM, Bibi BM, Tipgunlakant P, Birukou I, Soman J, Olson JS, Kliger DS, Goldbeck RA. Role of Heme Pocket Water in Allosteric Regulation of Ligand Reactivity in Human Hemoglobin. Biochemistry 2016; 55:4005-17. [PMID: 27355904 PMCID: PMC4978812 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Water molecules can enter the heme pockets of unliganded myoglobins and hemoglobins, hydrogen bond with the distal histidine, and introduce steric barriers to ligand binding. The spectrokinetics of photodissociated CO complexes of human hemoglobin and its isolated α and β chains were analyzed for the effect of heme hydration on ligand rebinding. A strong coupling was observed between heme hydration and quaternary state. This coupling may contribute significantly to the 20-60-fold difference between the R- and T-state bimolecular CO binding rate constants and thus to the modulation of ligand reactivity that is the hallmark of hemoglobin allostery. Heme hydration proceeded over the course of several kinetic phases in the tetramer, including the R to T quaternary transition. An initial 150 ns hydration phase increased the R-state distal pocket water occupancy, nw(R), to a level similar to that of the isolated α (∼60%) and β (∼10%) chains, resulting in a modest barrier to ligand binding. A subsequent phase, concurrent with the first step of the R → T transition, further increased the level of heme hydration, increasing the barrier. The final phase, concurrent with the final step of the allosteric transition, brought the water occupancy of the T-state tetramer, nw(T), even higher and close to full occupancy in both the α and β subunits (∼90%). This hydration level could present an even larger barrier to ligand binding and contribute significantly to the lower iron reactivity of the T state toward CO.
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- Raymond M. Esquerra
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and W. M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, United States
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Bucci A, Yu TQ, Vanden-Eijnden E, Abrams CF. Kinetics of O2 Entry and Exit in Monomeric Sarcosine Oxidase via Markovian Milestoning Molecular Dynamics. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:2964-72. [PMID: 27168219 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The flavoenzyme monomeric sarcosine oxidase (MSOX) catalyzes a complex set of reactions currently lacking a consensus mechanism. A key question that arises in weighing competing mechanistic models of MSOX function is to what extent ingress of O2 from the solvent (and its egress after an unsuccessful oxidation attempt) limits the overall catalytic rate. To address this question, we have applied to the MSOX/O2 system the relatively new simulation method of Markovian milestoning molecular dynamics simulations, which, as we recently showed [ Yu et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015 , 137 , 3041 ], accurately predicted the entry and exit kinetics of CO in myoglobin. We show that the mechanism of O2 entry and exit, in terms of which possible solvent-to-active-site channels contribute to the flow of O2, is sensitive to the presence of the substrate-mimicking competitive inhibitor 2-furoate in the substrate site. The second-order O2 entry rate constants were computed to be 8.1 × 10(6) and 3.1 × 10(6) M(-1) s(-1) for bound and apo MSOX, respectively, both of which moderately exceed the experimentally determined second-order rate constant of (2.83 ± 0.07) × 10(5) M(-1) s(-1) for flavin oxidation by O2 in MSOX. This suggests that the rate of flavin oxidation by O2 is likely not strongly limited by diffusion from the solvent to the active site. The first-order exit rate constants were computed to be 10(7) s(-1) and 7.2 × 10(6) s(-1) for the apo and bound states, respectively. The predicted faster entry and slower exit of O2 for the bound state indicate a longer residence time within MSOX, increasing the likelihood of collisions with the flavin isoalloxazine ring, a step required for reduction of molecular O2 and subsequent reoxidation of the flavin. This is also indirectly supported by previous experimental evidence favoring the so-called modified ping-pong mechanism, the distinguishing feature of which is an intermediate complex involving O2, the flavin, and the oxidized substrate simultaneously in the cavity. These findings demonstrate the utility of the Markovian milestoning approach in contributing new understanding of complicated enyzmatic function.
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- Anthony Bucci
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University , New York, New York 10012, United States
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- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University , New York, New York 10012, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Shadrina MS, English AM, Peslherbe GH. Benchmarking Rapid TLES Simulations of Gas Diffusion in Proteins: Mapping O2 Migration and Escape in Myoglobin as a Case Study. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:2038-46. [PMID: 26938707 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Standard molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of gas diffusion consume considerable computational time and resources even for small proteins. To combat this, temperature-controlled locally enhanced sampling (TLES) examines multiple diffusion trajectories per simulation by accommodating multiple noninteracting copies of a gas molecule that diffuse independently, while the protein and water molecules experience an average interaction from all copies. Furthermore, gas migration within a protein matrix can be accelerated without altering protein dynamics by increasing the effective temperature of the TLES copies. These features of TLES enable rapid simulations of gas diffusion within a protein matrix at significantly reduced (∼98%) computational cost. However, the results of TLES and standard MD simulations have not been systematically compared, which limits the adoption of the TLES approach. We address this drawback here by benchmarking TLES against standard MD in the simulation of O2 diffusion in myoglobin (Mb) as a case study since this model system has been extensively characterized. We find that 2 ns TLES and 108 ns standard simulations map the same network of diffusion tunnels in Mb and uncover the same docking sites, barriers, and escape portals. We further discuss the influence of simulation time as well as the number of independent simulations on the O2 population density within the diffusion tunnels and on the sampling of Mb's conformational space as revealed by principal component analysis. Overall, our comprehensive benchmarking reveals that TLES is an appropriate and robust tool for the rapid mapping of gas diffusion in proteins when the kinetic data provided by standard MD are not required. Furthermore, TLES provides explicit ligand diffusion pathways, unlike most rapid methods.
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- Maria S Shadrina
- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University , 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4B 1R6
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- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University , 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4B 1R6
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- Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling (CERMM) and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University , 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, Canada H4B 1R6
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