Simulation Study of Polyethylene Terephthalate Hydrolase Adsorption on Self-Assembled Monolayers. 2024

Lijian Gao, and Zhiyong Xu, and Jian Zhou
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab for Green Chemical Product Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China.

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hydrolase, discovered in Ideonella sakaiensis (IsPETase), is a promising agent for the biodegradation of PET under mild reaction conditions, yet the thermal stability is poor. The efficient immobilization and orientation of IsPETase on different solid substrates are essential for its application. In this work, the combined parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulation with the all-atom molecular dynamics simulation approach was adopted to reveal the adsorption mechanism, orientation, and conformational changes of IsPETase adsorbed on charged self-assembled monolayers (SAMs), including COOH-SAM and NH2-SAM with different surface charge densities (SCDs). The results show that the protein adsorption orientation was determined not only by attraction interactions but also by repulsion interactions. IsPETase is adsorbed on the COOH-SAM surface with an "end-on" orientation, which favors the exposure of the catalyzed triplet to the solution. In addition, the entrance to the catalytic active center is larger on the COOH-SAM surface with a low SCD. This work reveals the controlled orientation and conformational information on IsPETase on charged surfaces at the atomistic level. This study would certainly promote our understanding of the mechanism of IsPETase adsorption and provide theoretical support for the design of substrates for IsPETase immobilization.

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