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Brownian dynamics simulations of the interactions between lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and G- or F-actin. Part II: mixed isoforms

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Experimental studies have shown that many glycolytic enzymes bind cytoskeletal proteins reversibly including lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and that the interaction may be electrostatic in nature. LDH is particularly interesting because different isoforms have different binding affinities. Herein, Brownian dynamics simulations examine the interactions of mixed LDH isoforms with F-actin based on models of human muscle (M) and heart (H) isoforms and rabbit muscle (M) and heart (H) isoforms built via homology modeling from a variety of mammalian forms of the enzyme. The LDH-mixed tetrameric isoforms, LDH-M3H, LDH-M2H2, LDH-MH3, give distinctive electrostatic potentials and charges; + 6.9 e for human LDH-M3H, −9.4 e for human LDH-MH3, the LDH-M2H2 gives three distinctively different pictures of the electrostatic potential and show different binding affinity depending on the nature of the quaternary structure of the tetramer. If the positive charge patch of LDH-M4 between subunits A/D and subunits B/C, which was identified as the binding site of LDH to F-actin for the muscle isoform (Part I of the companion paper), remains intact on one side of LDH-M2H2, the mixed isoform can still bind F-actin. If, however, the LDH-M2H2 isoform does not maintain this positively charged patch, the mixed isoform does not bind as strongly.

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This research was funded by NIH/INBRE and the North Dakota Computational Chemistry and Biology Network for computational resources and NIH/NIGMS Grant No. 2 R15 GM055929‐03 and ND EPSCoR.

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Correspondence to Eric N. Njabon.

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Njabon, E.N., Forlemu, N.Y., Emadak, A. et al. Brownian dynamics simulations of the interactions between lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and G- or F-actin. Part II: mixed isoforms. Chem. Pap. 75, 1937–1948 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-020-01463-0

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