Elucidating the Nature of the<i>Streptomyces plicatus</i>β-Hexosaminidase-Bound Intermediate Using ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
By using all-atom ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, the solution pK(a) of the oxazolinium ion intermediate formed during the Streptomyces plicatus beta-hexosaminidase (SpHex)-catalyzed hydrolysis of beta-D-N-acetylglucosaminides is estimated as pK(a) = 7.7. The structure and protonation state of the enzyme-bound intermediate have also been investigated, using hybrid QM/MM methods. The protonation state and conformational properties of the enzyme bound intermediate are found to be sensitive to the protonation state of a number of ionisable residues (other than the aspartate-glutamate catalytic dyad) suggesting that the microscopic electrostatic environment of SpHex not only perturbs the relative magnitudes of the pK(a) values of the Asp side chain carboxylate and oxazolinium ion but also that SpHex binds its intermediate in a distorted conformation with respect to its ground-state conformation in solution.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".