title: Molecular basis of the recognition process: hydrogen-bonding patterns in the guanine primary recognition site of ribonuclease T1.
abstract: Investigation of the intrinsic H-bonding pattern of the guanine complex with a sizable segment (from Asn43 to Glu46) of the primary recognition site (PRS) in RNase T1 at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level of theory enables the electronic density characteristics of the H-bonding patterns of the guanine-PRS complexes to be identified. The perfect H-bonding pattern in the guanine recognition site is achieved through the guanine complex interactions with the large segment of the PRS. Two significant short H-bonds, O epsilon 1...HN1 and O epsilon 2...HN2, have been identified. The similar short H-bond distances found in the anionic GC- base pair and in this study suggest that the short hydrogen-bond distances may be characteristic of the multiple H-bonded anionic nucleobases. The H-bonding energy distribution, the geometric analysis of the H-bonding pattern, and the electron structure characteristics of the H-bonds in the guanine PRS of RNase T1 all suggest that the O epsilon 1...HN1 and O epsilon 2...HN2 side-chain H-bonds dominate the binding at the guanine recognition site of RNase T1. Also, the geometry evidence, the electron structure characteristics, and the properties of the bond critical points of the H-bonds reveal that the side-chain H-bonding and the main-chain H-bonding are mutually intensifying. Thus the positive cooperativity between Asn43 to Tyr45 and Glu46 is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Drug Design & Discovery Center, State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 203201, People's Republic of China. jiandegush@go.com
authors.forename: Jiande
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leszczynski
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D006147:Guanine / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008958:Models, Molecular; D006163:Ribonuclease T1 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D006147:Guanine; D006163:Ribonuclease T1