Titel
Packing topology in crystals of proteins and small molecules: a comparison
Autor*in
Olga A. Blatova
Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science (SCTMS), Samara University
Autor*in
Elena O. Medrish
Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science (SCTMS), Samara University
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Abstract
We compared the topologies of protein and small molecule crystals, which have many common features – both are molecular crystals with intermolecular interactions much weaker than intramolecular interactions. They also have different features – a considerably large fraction of the volume of protein crystals is occupied by liquid water while no room is available to other molecules in small molecule crystals. We analyzed the overall and local topology and performed multilevel topological analyses (with the software package ToposPro) of carefully selected high quality sets of protein and small molecule crystal structures. Given the suboptimal packing of protein crystals, which is due the special shape and size of proteins, it would be reasonable to expect that the topology of protein crystals is different from the topology of small molecule crystals. Surprisingly, we discovered that these two types of crystalline compounds have strikingly similar topologies. This might suggest that molecular crystal formations share symmetry rules independent of molecular dimension.
Stichwort
Computational biophysicsComputational chemistry
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:912587
Erschienen in
Titel
Scientific Reports
Band
7
Verlag
Springer Nature
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© The Author(s) 2017

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