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Effect of Human Serum Albumin on the Kinetics of 4-Methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N 0 -N 00 Triacetylchitotrioside Hydrolysis Catalyzed by Hen Egg White Lysozyme Cristian Calderon Elsa Abuin Eduardo Lissi Rodrigo Montecinos Published online: 12 July 2011 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract The effect of human serum albumin (HSA) addition on the rate of hydrolysis of the synthetic substrate 4-methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N 0 -N 00 triacetylchitotrioside ((NAG) 3 -MUF) catalyzed by hen egg white lysozyme has been measured in aqueous solution (citrate buffer 50 mM pH = 5.2 at 37 °C). The presence of HSA leads to a decrease in the rate of the process. The reaction follows a Michaelis– Menten mechanism under all the conditions employed. The catalytic rate constant decreases tenfold when the albu- min concentration increases, while the Michaelis constant remains almost constant in the albumin concentration range employed. Ultracentrifugation experiments indicate that the main origin of the observed variation in the kinetic behavior is related to the existence of an HSA–lysozyme interaction. Interestingly, the dependence of the catalytic rate constant with albumin concentration parallels the decrease of the free enzyme concentration. We interpret these results in terms of the presence in the system of two enzyme populations; namely, the HSA associated enzyme which does not react and the free enzyme reacting as in the absence of albumin. Other factors such as association of the substrate to albumin or macromolecular crowding effects due to the presence of albumin are discarded. Theoretical modeling of the structure of the HSA–lysozyme complex shows that the Glu35 and Asp52 residues located in the active site of lysozyme are oriented toward the HSA surface. This conformation will inactivate lysozyme molecules bound to HSA. Keywords Enzyme kinetics Lysozyme Human serum albumin Abbreviations DS Dansylsarcosine DNSA Dansylsulfonamide GPNA N-glutaryl-L-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide HSA Human serum albumin k cat Catalytic rate constant K M Michaelis constant ((NAG) 3 -MUF) 4-Methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N 0 -N 00 triacetylchitotrioside Glu Glutamic acid Asp Aspartic acid 1 Introduction Serum albumin is the most abundant protein in blood plasma, (accounting for ca. 60% of the total protein; its concentration amounts to ca. 800 lM[11, 16]. Albumins, and in particular HSA are able to bind and transport a wide range of organic compounds, including drugs and fatty acids [1, 2, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 24, 27]. This capacity of albumin to bind hydrophobic drugs in plasma modulates their delivery to cells in vivo and reduces the free drug concentration, a determinant parameter of its physiological activity [14]. The presence of albumin in the reaction medium can affect the activity of enzymes through different factors, namely, (a) the adsorption of the substrate onto the protein, (b) the so called ‘‘crowding effect’’ which would affect the enzyme conformation, and, hence, its activity, and (c) an C. Calderon (&) E. Abuin E. Lissi Facultad de Quı ´mica y Biologı ´a, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Av. Bernardo O’Higgins 3363, Santiago, Chile e-mail: [email protected] R. Montecinos Facultad de Quı ´mica, Pontificia Universidad Cato ´lica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 123 Protein J (2011) 30:367–373 DOI 10.1007/s10930-011-9339-8

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  • Effect of Human Serum Albumin on the Kineticsof 4-Methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N0-N00 TriacetylchitotriosideHydrolysis Catalyzed by Hen Egg White Lysozyme

    Cristian Calderon Elsa Abuin Eduardo Lissi

    Rodrigo Montecinos

    Published online: 12 July 2011

    Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

    Abstract The effect of human serum albumin (HSA)

    addition on the rate of hydrolysis of the synthetic substrate

    4-methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N0-N00 triacetylchitotrioside((NAG)3-MUF) catalyzed by hen egg white lysozyme has

    been measured in aqueous solution (citrate buffer 50 mM

    pH = 5.2 at 37 C). The presence of HSA leads to a decreasein the rate of the process. The reaction follows a Michaelis

    Menten mechanism under all the conditions employed. The

    catalytic rate constant decreases tenfold when the albu-

    min concentration increases, while the Michaelis constant

    remains almost constant in the albumin concentration range

    employed. Ultracentrifugation experiments indicate that the

    main origin of the observed variation in the kinetic behavior

    is related to the existence of an HSAlysozyme interaction.

    Interestingly, the dependence of the catalytic rate constant

    with albumin concentration parallels the decrease of the free

    enzyme concentration. We interpret these results in terms of

    the presence in the system of two enzyme populations;

    namely, the HSA associated enzyme which does not react

    and the free enzyme reacting as in the absence of albumin.

    Other factors such as association of the substrate to albumin

    or macromolecular crowding effects due to the presence of

    albumin are discarded. Theoretical modeling of the structure

    of the HSAlysozyme complex shows that the Glu35 and

    Asp52 residues located in the active site of lysozyme are

    oriented toward the HSA surface. This conformation will

    inactivate lysozyme molecules bound to HSA.

    Keywords Enzyme kinetics Lysozyme Human serumalbumin

    Abbreviations

    DS Dansylsarcosine

    DNSA Dansylsulfonamide

    GPNA N-glutaryl-L-phenylalanine

    p-nitroanilide

    HSA Human serum albumin

    kcat Catalytic rate constant

    KM Michaelis constant

    ((NAG)3-MUF) 4-Methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N0-N00

    triacetylchitotrioside

    Glu Glutamic acid

    Asp Aspartic acid

    1 Introduction

    Serum albumin is the most abundant protein in blood

    plasma, (accounting for ca. 60% of the total protein; its

    concentration amounts to ca. 800 lM [11, 16]. Albumins,and in particular HSA are able to bind and transport a wide

    range of organic compounds, including drugs and fatty

    acids [1, 2, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 24, 27]. This capacity of

    albumin to bind hydrophobic drugs in plasma modulates

    their delivery to cells in vivo and reduces the free drug

    concentration, a determinant parameter of its physiological

    activity [14].

    The presence of albumin in the reaction medium can

    affect the activity of enzymes through different factors,

    namely, (a) the adsorption of the substrate onto the protein,

    (b) the so called crowding effect which would affect the

    enzyme conformation, and, hence, its activity, and (c) an

    C. Calderon (&) E. Abuin E. LissiFacultad de Qumica y Biologa, Universidad de Santiago de

    Chile, Av. Bernardo OHiggins 3363, Santiago, Chile

    e-mail: [email protected]

    R. Montecinos

    Facultad de Qumica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile,

    Santiago, Chile

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    DOI 10.1007/s10930-011-9339-8

  • interaction between the enzyme and the protein which

    would also alter the enzyme conformation even at low

    albumin concentrations. There are several reports that take

    into account factors (a) and (b), but, to the best of our

    knowledge, factor (c) has not been yet considered in kinetic

    studies.

    Awad-Elkarim et al. [4] demonstrated that p-nitrophenyl

    phosphate, a substrate for Lipases, readily binds to bovine

    and human serum albumin. Wang et al. [32] studied the

    effect of addition of albumin on the acyl chain specificity

    of a lipoprotein lipase using triacylglycerols of various

    acyl-chain lengths as substrates. An unexpected finding of

    this work was that the albumin ligand binding site is

    accessible not only to long-chain fatty acids, but also to

    short and medium chain monoacid triacylglycerol sub-

    strates. It was concluded that the observed inhibitory effect

    of albumin on the lipase-catalyzed hydrolysis of trihexa-

    noylglycerol is probably the result of the high affinity

    interaction of albumin with this substrate, but no inde-

    pendent measurements of the binding affinity were per-

    formed. The effect of substrate depletion due to its

    adsorption onto albumin was also demonstrated in a study

    of the effect of human serum albumin (HSA) on the in

    vitro enzyme kinetics of the formation of hydroxytolbu-

    tamide on the tolbutamide hydroxylation examined using

    human liver microsomes [33]. In this system, the addition

    of HSA greatly decreased the unbound concentration of

    tolbutamide in the incubation medium. The value of the

    Michaelis constant KM for tolbutamide, even when the

    unbound concentration of the substrate is considered,

    decreased from 123 lM without HSA to 73 lM in thepresence of HSA at a concentration of 5 mg/mL. In this

    study it was concluded that the addition of HSA to

    microsomal incubation media may yield enzyme kinetic

    estimates more comparable with in vivo results than

    studies carried out in its absence. A similar study on the

    effect of albumin on the phenytoin hydroxylation catalyzed

    by human liver microsomes has been performed by Rowland

    et al. [29]. In this study, both, either bovine serum albumin

    or essentially fatty acid-free HSA reduced the KM values

    (based on unbound substrate concentration) with only a

    minor effect on the catalytic rate constant. A discussion is

    also made on the albumin effect in the reaction under study

    and in vitroin vivo extrapolations.

    At relatively high concentrations of albumin the space

    filling or crowding effect must be also considered

    [9, 26]. This effect could alter the enzyme conformation

    leading to changes in its catalytic activity. Bergman and

    Winzor [9] studied the effect of albumin on the reduction

    of pyruvate by rabbit muscle lactate dehydrogenase. They

    found that in the presence of albumin the catalysis was

    enhanced as a consequence of an increase in the catalytic

    rate constant with no appreciable effect on the Michaelis

    constant for pyruvate or its co-factor. These authors

    explained the results in terms of the crowding effect

    which provokes a change in the conformation of the

    enzyme. Olsen [26] studied the kinetic properties of

    hexokinase in concentrated protein solutions (BSA), (up to

    4 mM). All results could be accounted for by a Michaelis

    Mentens approach and both, KM and kcat decreased with

    increasing albumin concentration. The decrease in KM with

    increasing protein concentration was ascribed to an

    increase in the ratio of activity coefficients between the

    native enzyme and the enzymesubstrate complex. The

    decrease in kcat with increasing protein concentrations was

    also explained in terms of the crowding effect, which in

    this case leads to conformational changes of the enzymes

    that disfavor the catalytic step. Recently, we have reported

    that human serum albumin (up to 0.2 mM) do not affect the

    kinetic parameters ((KM) and kcat) of the reaction of

    hydrolysis of N-glutaryl-L-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide

    (GPNA) catalyzed by a-chymotrypsin when they are cal-culated in terms of the unbound substrate concentration [3].

    In the present work we report the results of a study on

    the effect of human serum albumin on the hydrolysis of the

    synthetic substrate ((NAG)3-MUF); Scheme 1) catalyzed

    by egg white lysozyme. The possible occurrence of HSA-

    substrate and HSAlysozyme interactions have also been

    investigated, as well as the crowding effect, were taken

    into consideration.

    2 Experimental Section

    2.1 Chemicals and Equipments

    Hen egg white lysozyme (Sigma), human serum albumin

    (HSA), essentially fatty acid free (Sigma), 4-methylumbel-

    liferyl-b-D-N-N0-N00 triacetylchitotrioside ((NAG)3-MUF)(Sigma), 4-methylumbelliferone (Sigma) and dansyl deriv-

    atives, dansylsarcosine (DS) and dansylsulfonamide (DNSA)

    (Sigma) were used as received. Ultrapure water obtained from a

    Modulab Type II equipment was employed to prepare all the

    solutions.

    Scheme 1 Structure of 4-methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N0-N00 triacetyl-chitotrioside ((NAG)3-MUF)

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  • Absorption spectra and absorbances were recorded in a

    HewlettPackard UVvisible 8453 spectrometer. Fluores-

    cence measurements were recorded in an Aminco-Bowman

    fluorescence spectrometer. Light scattering measurements

    were done using a Zetasizer Nano S-590 (Malvern Instru-

    ments). Microcentrifugations were carried out using Mil-

    lipore Ultrafree-MC centrifugal filter units (molecular

    weight cut off equal to 30 kDa).

    2.2 Lysozyme Activity Assays

    The enzyme activity was measured at pH 5.2 (50 mM

    citrate buffer) and 37 C, employing the synthetic substrate((NAG)3-MUF). The reaction was stopped at different

    times by the addition of glycine buffer (pH 11). The rate of

    the catalyzed reaction was determined by following the

    formation of the fluorescent product 4-methylumbellyfer-

    one (kex = 360 nm; kem = 445 nm) as a function of time.The amount of product liberated was determined using a

    linear calibration curve.

    2.3 Dansyl Derivatives Displacement Experiments

    The possible association of (NAG)3-MUF with HSA was

    evaluated by the microcentrifugation experiments (see

    Sect. 2.4) an from displacement of dansyl derivatives

    (dansylsulfonamide and dansylsarcosine) which are spe-

    cific markers of the main binding sites present in HSA

    (sites I and II, respectively). Dansyl derivatives are highly

    fluorescent when they are incorporated in the hydrophobic

    sites of HSA and are almost non-fluorescent in an aqueous

    environment. The possible displacement of the probes was

    then determined by registering the fluorescence intensity

    (kex = 360 nm; kem = 475 nm) of solutions of HSAincubated in the presence of the considered dansyl deriv-

    ative, before and after addition of (NAG)3-MUF.

    2.4 Microcentrifugation Experiments

    Microcentrifugation experiments were carried out at 37 C,pH 5.2 (50 mM citrate buffer), using Millipore Ultrafree-

    MC centrifugal filter units. The molecular weight cut off of

    the filter employed was 30,000 Dalton. Calibrations with

    respect to filtrate volume passed through the membrane

    were made as a function of the centrifugation time and

    speed. Control measurements were carried out to ensure

    that the molecule being monitored (the substrate or the

    enzyme) was not retained by the membrane.

    To examine the modes of interaction between HSA and

    lysozyme the HEX v.6.3 [28] molecular docking program

    was used. The structures 1E78 and 1UCO, both obtained

    from Protein data Bank, were used for HSA and Lysozyme,

    respectively [5, 25]. The protein surface shape and

    electrostatic charges were modeled using 3D spherical

    polar basis functions. This allows performing global rota-

    tional and translational space scans by using fast Fourier

    transformations. Structures of 500 complexes HSALyso-

    zyme were ranked by energy criteria according to steric

    and electrostatic surface interactions.

    2.5 Molecular Dynamic Calculations

    To evaluate the proteinprotein interaction as a function of

    time, the five HSALysozyme complexes with the lowest

    energies obtained from molecular docking were optimized

    by molecular dynamics. Each HSALysozyme complex

    was solvated with 22,853 water molecules and six sodium

    ions to neutralize the charge, and introduced in a box

    10.0 9 8.0 9 10.0 nm3 with periodic boundary conditions.

    The simulations were performed using the software pack-

    age GROMACS v 4.0 [8, 19, 22, 31]. For the visualization

    of molecular graphics and trajectories, the program VMD

    [21] was employed. HSA and lysozyme were represented

    using the GROMOS96 43a2 force field [30], with SPC

    water [7]. LINCS [18] was used to constrain the bond

    lengths of the proteins and SETTLE [23] to restrict the

    structure of the water molecules. A 1 nm cut-off was used

    for the Lennard-Jones potential and the real space elec-

    trostatic interactions. Long range electrostatic interactions

    were calculated using PME [15]. The neighbor list was

    updated every 10 time steps. All simulations were per-

    formed in an isothermic-isobaric ensemble. To maintain

    the temperature and pressure constant at 300 K, and 1 bar,

    the weak coupling algorithm of Berendsen [6] was used,

    with time constants of 0.1 and 1 ps, respectively. The time

    step size in all simulations was 3 fs.

    3 Results and Discussion

    Figure 1a shows the results obtained for the effect of HSA

    on the rate of reaction versus (NAG)3-MUF profiles. The

    data shown in this figure indicate that, at all substrate

    concentrations considered, the presence of HSA decreases

    the rate of the lysozyme catalyzed process and that, the

    decrease depends on HSA concentration. An important

    decrease in activity is observed at low concentrations of

    HSA (20 lM), reaching an almost complete inactivation ofthe enzyme at 100 lM HSA.

    The curves shown in Fig. 1a correspond to the fitting of

    the data to the MichaleisMenten equation, from which the

    values of the Michaelis constant (KM) and the catalytic rate

    constant (kcat) were obtained. The results obtained show that

    KM remains almost unmodified in the presence of albumin

    (1 9 10-5 2.5 9 10-6 M-1 in the absence of albumin

    and 8.0 9 10-6 1.2 9 10-6 at [HSA] = 100 lM) while

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  • (kcat) decreases with albumin concentration as shown in

    Fig. 1b (by a factor ca. 10).

    The possible interaction of the substrate with albumin

    was assessed by microcentrifugation experiments. Results

    obtained are shown in Fig. 2a. As can be seen in this figure,

    the concentration of (NAG)3-MUF in the filtrand and the

    filtrate remains almost the same, irrespective of HSA

    concentration, indicating a lack of adsorption of the sub-

    strate onto albumin.

    In line with this result, dansyl derivatives displacement

    experiments (Fig. 2b) shows no incorporation of (NAG)3-

    MUF to the main binding sites present on HSA. It clearly

    turns out the absence of substrate binding to albumin.

    These results are quite satisfactory with the insensitivity of

    KM upon the concentration of albumin and clearly indicate

    that the effect of albumin on the activity of lysozyme is not

    related to a deprivation of the substrate to the enzyme in

    the presence of HSA.

    The possible interaction between HSA and lysozyme is

    an interesting alternative worth to be explored in order to

    interpret the origin of the lysozyme inactivation by HSA.

    Microcentrifugation experiments (Fig. 3) show a decrease

    in the concentration of free lysozyme with the increase of

    albumin concentration (being the enzyme almost totally

    associated at 100 lM). The formation of a HSAlysozymecomplex could induce conformational changes leading to

    distortion of the active site of the enzyme leading a less

    active conformation.

    Fig. 1 a Effect of HSA on the reaction rate for the hydrolysis of(NAG)3-MUF catalyzed by lysozyme (2 lM). Kinetic data fittedaccording to the MichaelisMenten equation. No HSA (filled circle);20 lM (filled square); 50 lM (filled triangle); 80 lM (filled invertedtriangle); 100 lM (filled diamond). b Dependence of the catalytic rateconstant with the concentration of HSA for the hydrolysis of (NAG)3-

    MUF catalyzed by hen egg white lysozyme

    Fig. 2 a Concentration of ((NAG)3-MUF) in the filtrand (black bars)and the filtrate (white bars), measured in microcentrifugationexperiments. b Effect of the addition of ((NAG)3-MUF) on thefluorescence intensity of dansyl derivatives. ([Dansyl deriva-

    tive] = 20 lM, [HSA] = 2 lM); DS as probe (open square); DNSAas probe (filled circle)

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  • The more relevant result of the present study is that the

    decrease of free lysozyme and the catalytic rate constant

    show the same dependence with albumin concentration as

    shown in Fig. 3. We interpret this finding as indicative of

    the presence in the system of two lysozyme populations:

    the free enzyme catalyzing the reaction as in the absence of

    albumin and the HSA-associated lysozyme which would be

    completely inactive.

    3.1 Theoretical Modeling

    In order to obtain further insight on the molecular basis of the

    lysozyme inactivation by HSA, theoretical modeling tools

    were used. First, molecular docking calculations were per-

    formed to model the formation of the complex between

    lysozyme and the synthetic substrate (NAG)3-MUF (Fig. 4).

    The modeling shows the incorporation of the substrate to the

    enzyme across a cleft that runs through the enzyme molecule,

    cleft in which the catalytic active site is located.

    The HSAlysozyme complexes, obtained by molecular

    dynamics simulations, do not alter significantly their struc-

    tures after 50 ns. MD energy profile indicates that the

    interaction proteinprotein is mainly electrostatic. Figure 5

    shows the HSAlysozyme complex with the lowest potential

    energy after 49.5 ns of simulation. The structure of this

    complex shows that the Glu35 and Asp52 residues located in

    the active site of lysozyme are oriented toward the HSA

    surface. This conformation would restrict the binding of the

    substrate to the active site of lysozyme, leading to an inactive

    enzyme population, in line with the experimental results.

    Molecular docking calculations were performed

    between (NAG)3-MUF and the solution for the HSA/

    Lysozime complex obtained by molecular dynamics sim-

    ulations. The results obtained (Fig. 6) demonstrate that the

    incorporation of the substrate to the active site of the

    enzyme is hindered by formation of the HSA/Lysozyme

    complex, mainly due to an occlusion of the cleft in which

    the active site is located.

    Finally, to take into account the possibility of the

    operation of a crowding effect, we calculated the volume

    0 20 40 60 80 1000,0

    0,5

    1,0

    1,5

    2,0

    [HSA] (M)

    [Lys

    ozym

    e] (

    M)

    0,0

    3,0x10-4

    6,0x10-4

    9,0x10-4

    1,2x10-3

    1,5x10-3

    1,8x10-3

    kC

    AT ( s

    -1)

    Fig. 3 Comparison between free lysozyme concentration (filledcircle) and the decrease on kcat (filled square) as a function of HSAconcentration

    Fig. 4 Complex formation between lysozyme and the syntheticsubstrate (NAG)3-MUF, obtained by molecular docking calculations.

    Front view (left panel); side view (right panel). The aminoacidicresidues Glu35 and Asp52 present in the active site of lysozyme are

    shown as space filling models

    Fig. 5 HSA (green)/Lysozyme(orange) complex obtained bymolecular dynamic simulations.

    Glu35 (purple) and Asp52(blue) located at the active siteof lysozyme are represented

    indicating their van der Waals

    radii. For simplicity water

    molecules and ions were

    removed from the visualization.

    Side view (left panel); upperview (right panel) (Color figureonline)

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  • occupied by albumin molecules. To do this calculation of

    the hydrodynamic radius of HSA (6 nm approx.) was

    determined employing dynamic light scattering measure-

    ments (Fig. 7). The results obtained shows that even at the

    highest albumin concentration used in the lysozyme

    activity studies (100 lM HSA), the volume occupied bythe albumin molecules slightly exceeds 1% of the total

    solution volume. This is by far lower than those presented

    in several works on the subject were macromolecular

    crowding effect is operative. Furthermore, the distances

    between albumin molecules are 34 times larger than the

    lysozyme molecules diameter (approx. 3 nm), ruling out a

    physical effect on the enzyme structure due to an excluded

    volume effect. According with these results, the effect of

    macromolecular crowding can be neglected under the

    conditions employed in the precedent work.

    4 Conclusions

    The presence of HSA (up to 100 lM) leads to a decrease inthe rate of hydrolysis of 4-methylumbelliferyl-b-D-N-N0-N00

    triacetylchitotrioside catalyzed by hen egg white lysozyme.

    The reaction follows a MichaelisMenten mechanism under

    all the conditions employed. The decrease in the rate of

    hydrolysis is related to a decrease in the catalytic rate

    constant (kcat) with albumin concentration rather than a

    modification of the Michaelis constant (KM). The decrease

    of kcat arises from the occurrence of HSAlysozyme inter-

    actions leading to an inactivation of the enzyme, so

    decreasing the concentration of active enzyme available for

    catalysis. These results are relevant, since as far as we

    know, the effect on the kinetic parameters of complex for-

    mation between albumin and enzymes has not been

    explicitly demonstrated. No depletion of the substrate by

    albumin or macromolecular crowding effects is observed.

    Acknowledgments Thanks are given to Dicyt (USACH) andFondecyt (Grant No. 1095036) for financial support. C. Calderon

    acknowledges CONICYT for a doctoral fellowship.

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    c.10930_2011_Article_9339.pdfEffect of Human Serum Albumin on the Kinetics of 4-Methylumbelliferyl- beta -D-N-Nvprime-NPrime Triacetylchitotrioside Hydrolysis Catalyzed by Hen Egg White LysozymeAbstractIntroductionExperimental SectionChemicals and EquipmentsLysozyme Activity AssaysDansyl Derivatives Displacement ExperimentsMicrocentrifugation ExperimentsMolecular Dynamic CalculationsResults and DiscussionTheoretical ModelingConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferences