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of empirical observations in this area; what is new here is the engineering of two simple cavities, one a perturbation of the other, where 15155536 these effects can be at least partially isolated. The closed and opened Gateless cavities in Cytochrome c Peroxidase conserve most features that dominate ligand recognition the opening of the cavity only deletes residues that are distal to the recognition features of the site, and the crucial cation-recognizing Asp235 is conserved in both. Still, the effects of the substitution on ligands that bind to both targets are substantial, both in binding energy and in the structure of the ligand complexes. Part of the effects of opening the cavity to bulk solvent appears to be qualitatively captured by a continuum-based electrostatic model in docking, though the role of ordered waters is not, and their effects can be considerable. In these model binding sites, one can hope to tease these contributions apart, and test any theory to treat them prospectively. These cavities are freely available to the community, and we hope that they may find use in exploring these and related order BHI1 questions in docking and molecular recognition. Crystallography Compounds 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 were soaked into crystals at concentrations up to 50100 mM in 25% MPD, or 25% MPD 10 mM MES for 10. Compounds 14, 17, 20, 22, and 24 were soaked at 100 mM in 25% MPD, into crystals grown under previously published conditions. The electron density for the ligands was unambiguous in both the initial Fo-Fc and in the final 2Fo-Fc maps. In most structures, the shortened capping loop was highly flexible and only the main conformation was modeled. Binding Measured by Titration of the UV-Vis Heme Soret Band The compounds were tested for binding by measuring perturbation of the Heme Soret band at 10uC in 100 mM citrate buffer at pH 4.5 or 500 mM MES buffer pH 6.0. To avoid competition with small cations like potassium, the pH of both buffer conditions was adjusted with Bis-Tris-Propane. Stock solutions were made up in DMSO and diluted into assay buffer to derive KD values in titration curves. KD values were obtained by fitting the difference absorbance of the Heme Soret band to a one-site binding hyperbola in GraphPad Prism. Low C-value Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Experiments were performed as described. Assays were performed at 10uC in 100 mM citrate buffer at pH 4.5. Ligand stocks were prepared in buffer from overnight dialysis of the protein to prevent buffer mismatch. Preparation of Fragment Set for Docking The fragment sets were prepared using the standard ligand preparation protocol used for ligands in the ZINC database. Molecules were protonated assuming a pH of 6.0 to minimize falsely cationic molecules owing to inaccuracies in the pKa calculations. Docking Docking calculations were carried out with DOCK3.6 and DOCK3.54 using a 1.74 A crystallographic structure of Cytochrome c Peroxidase . The cells of multi-cellular organisms need a constant communication with the environment to maintain 12419798 their homeostasis, to survive, to differentiate, and to proliferate. One of the most important communication systems is represented by the Polypeptide Growth Factors that include eight families. The Epidermal Polypeptide Growth Factor /ErbB family represents a very important in fact essential family of growth factors governing a multitude of cellular events. Its importance is also reflected by its crucial role in many pathologies, most notably in cancer w