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.