Escalante DE, Aksan A. Prediction of Ligand Transport along Hydrophobic Enzyme Nanochannels.
Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2019;
17:757-760. [PMID:
31303980 PMCID:
PMC6606821 DOI:
10.1016/j.csbj.2019.06.001]
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Abstract
Buried active sites of enzymes are connected to the bulk solvent through a network of hydrophobic channels. We developed a discretized model that can accurately predict ligand transport along hydrophobic channels up to six orders of magnitude faster than any other existing method. The non-dimensional nature of the model makes it applicable to any hydrophobic channel/ligand combination.
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