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. 2020 Oct 9;10:16903. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73906-3

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Influence of the short H-bond on H12 affinity using classical molecular mechanics based MD (a) shows the simulation box used, which is a double bilayer system to simultaneously add/remove a proton from H12 in each KDEL receptor. Na+ and Cl ions are represented as blue and green spheres respectively and the lipid bilayer is drawn as vdW spheres. (b) In the Apo state and when the H12 is protonated, a continuous water network linking the lumenal and cytoplasmic pockets is observed as highlighted by yellow dashed lines. (c) In the KDEL-bound state, the presence of the short hydrogen bond prohibits the formation of the water network. H12, E127 and Y158 are drawn as yellow sticks in all figure parts.