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Smyrnova D, Marín MDC, Olivucci M, Ceulemans A. Systematic Excited State Studies of Reversibly Switchable Fluorescent Proteins. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:3163-3172. [PMID: 29772175 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
The reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins Dronpa, rsFastLime, rsKame, Padron, and bsDronpa feature the same chromophore but display a 40 nm variation in absorption maxima and an only 18 nm variation in emission maxima. In the present contribution, we employ QM/MM models to investigate the mechanism of such remarkably different spectral variations, which are caused by just a few amino acid replacements. We show that the models, which are based on CASPT2//CASSCF level of QM theory, reproduce the observed trends in absorption maxima, with only a 3.5 kcal/mol blue-shift, and in emission maxima, with an even smaller 1.5 kcal/mol blue-shift with respect to the observed quantities. In order to explain the variations across the series, we look at the chromophore's electronic structure change during absorption and emission. Such analysis indicates that a change in charge-transfer character, which is more pronounced during absorption, triggers a cascade of hydrogen-bond-network rearrangements, suggesting preparation to an isomerization event. We also show how the contribution of Arg 89 and Arg 64 residues to the chromophore conformational changes correlate with the spectral variations in absorption and emission. Furthermore, we describe how the conical intersection stability is related to the protein's photophysical properties. While for the Dronpa, rsFastLime, and rsKame triad, the stability correlates with the photoswitching speed, this does not happen for bsDronpa and Padron, suggesting a less obvious photoisomerization mechanism.
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- Daryna Smyrnova
- Quantum Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Division, Department of Chemistry , KU Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200F , B-3001 Heverlee , Belgium
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy , Universitá di Siena , via A. Moro 2 , I-53100 Siena , Italy.,Department of Chemistry , Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green , Ohio 43403 , United States
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy , Universitá di Siena , via A. Moro 2 , I-53100 Siena , Italy.,Department of Chemistry , Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green , Ohio 43403 , United States
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- Quantum Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Division, Department of Chemistry , KU Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200F , B-3001 Heverlee , Belgium
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Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the interest in this process has gained a lot of momentum in the past decade due to its potential as a way to boost solar cell efficiencies. This review presents and discusses the most recent advances with respect to the theoretical and computational studies on the singlet fission phenomenon. The work revisits important aspects regarding electronic states involved in the process, the evaluation of fission rates and interstate couplings, the study of the excited state dynamics in singlet fission, and the advances in the design and characterization of singlet fission compounds and materials such as molecular dimers, polymers, or extended structures. Finally, the review tries to pinpoint some aspects that need further improvement and proposes future lines of research for theoretical and computational chemists and physicists in order to further push the understanding and applicability of singlet fission.
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- David Casanova
- Kimika Fakultatea , Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) , P.K. 1072, 20080 Donostia , Euskadi, Spain.,IKERBASQUE, Basque, Foundation for Science , 48013 Bilbao , Euskadi, Spain
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- Jae Woo Park
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, IL, USA
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Kalchevski DA, Petrov V, Tadjer A, Nenov A. Impacts of hydroxylation on the photophysics of chalcones: insights into the relation between the chemical composition and the electronic structure. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:8924-8934. [PMID: 29557454 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00602d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A combined theoretical/experimental study of the photoreactivity of two flavylium-derived chalcones, 2,4,4'-trihydroxychalcone and 2,4'-dihydroxychalcone, at the multiconfigurational wavefunction level of theory (CASSCF//CASPT2) in vacuo and in an implicit solvent (water, treated as a polarisable continuum) and by means of linear absorption spectroscopy is presented. The photosensitivity of flavium salts is expressed in the ability of their chalcone form to undergo a cis-trans isomerisation which has found application in logical networks. Despite a considerable amount of experimental data documenting the dependence of the isomerisation on solvent, pH and temperature, the knowledge of how chalcones process energy under various conditions at the molecular level is still scarce. On the example of 2,4,4'-trihydroxychalcone we unravel the complex excited state deactivation mechanism in vacuo involving ultrafast decay through conical intersections, formation of twisted intramolecular charge transfer species, intramolecular proton transfer and inter system crossings. Furthermore, we rationalise the observed discrepancies in the linear absorption spectra of 2,4,4'-trihydroxychalcone and 2,4'-dihydroxychalcone, thereby establishing a link between the functionalisation pattern and the observed spectral properties.
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- Dobromir A Kalchevski
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, 1 James Bourchier Boulevard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, 1 James Bourchier Boulevard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, 1 James Bourchier Boulevard, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy.
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Li C, Evangelista FA. Driven similarity renormalization group for excited states: A state-averaged perturbation theory. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:124106. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5019793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Chenyang Li
- Department of Chemistry and Cherry Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Cherry Emerson Center for Scientific Computation, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Coughtrie DJ, Giereth R, Kats D, Werner HJ, Köhn A. Embedded Multireference Coupled Cluster Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:693-709. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- David J. Coughtrie
- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Souri M, Kazemi T. Substitution effect in 2-spiropropane-1,3-diyl derivatives: A DFT and CASSCF study. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.10.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Budzák Š, Scalmani G, Jacquemin D. Accurate Excited-State Geometries: A CASPT2 and Coupled-Cluster Reference Database for Small Molecules. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:6237-6252. [PMID: 29140697 PMCID: PMC5729545 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
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We
present an investigation of the excited-state structural parameters
determined for a large set of small compounds with the dual goals
of defining reference values for further works and assessing the quality
of the geometries obtained with relatively cheap computational approaches.
In the first stage, we compare the excited-state geometries obtained
with ADC(2), CC2, CCSD, CCSDR(3), CC3, and CASPT2 and large atomic
basis sets. It is found that CASPT2 and CC3 results are generally
in very good agreement with one another (typical differences of ca.
3 × 10–3 Å) when all electrons are correlated
and when the aug-cc-pVTZ atomic basis set is employed with both methods.
In a second stage, a statistical analysis reveals that, on the one
hand, the excited-state (ES) bond lengths are much more sensitive
to the selected level of theory than their ground-state (GS) counterparts
and, on the other hand, that CCSDR(3) is probably the most cost-effective
method delivering accurate structures. Indeed, CCSD tends to provide
too compact multiple bond lengths on an almost systematic basis, whereas
both CC2 and ADC(2) tend to exaggerate these bond distances, with
more erratic error patterns, especially for the latter method. The
deviations are particularly marked for the polarized CO and CN bonds,
as well as for the puckering angle in formaldehyde homologues. In
the last part of this contribution, we provide a series of CCSDR(3)
GS and ES geometries of medium-sized molecules to be used as references
in further investigations.
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- Šimon Budzák
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University , Tajovského 40, SK-97400 Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Gaussian Incorporated , 340 Quinnipiac Street, Building 40, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 United States
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- Laboratoire CEISAM-UMR CNRS 6230, Université de Nantes , 2 Rue de la Houssiniére, BP 92208, 44322 Cedex 3 Nantes, France.,Institut Universitaire de France , 1 Rue Descartes, 75231 Cedex 5 Paris, France
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Orozco-Gonzalez Y, Manathunga M, Marín MDC, Agathangelou D, Jung KH, Melaccio F, Ferré N, Haacke S, Coutinho K, Canuto S, Olivucci M. An Average Solvent Electrostatic Configuration Protocol for QM/MM Free Energy Optimization: Implementation and Application to Rhodopsin Systems. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:6391-6404. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yoelvis Orozco-Gonzalez
- Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, UMR 7504, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Mateŕiaux de Strasbourg, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
- USIAS Institut d’É;tudes Avanceés, Université de Strasbourg, 5 alleé
du Geńeŕal Rouvillois, F-67083 Strasbourg, France
- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, UMR 7504, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Mateŕiaux de Strasbourg, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
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- Department
of Life Science and Institute of Biological Interfaces, Sogang University 35 Baekbeom-Ro, Mapo-Gu, Seoul 04107, Korea
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, ICR, 13013 Marseille, France
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- Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, UMR 7504, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Mateŕiaux de Strasbourg, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, 05508-090 Cidade Universitária, São Paulo/SP, Brazil
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- Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, UMR 7504, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Mateŕiaux de Strasbourg, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
- USIAS Institut d’É;tudes Avanceés, Université de Strasbourg, 5 alleé
du Geńeŕal Rouvillois, F-67083 Strasbourg, France
- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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Gozem S, Luk HL, Schapiro I, Olivucci M. Theory and Simulation of the Ultrafast Double-Bond Isomerization of Biological Chromophores. Chem Rev 2017; 117:13502-13565. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Samer Gozem
- Department
of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30302, United States
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- Chemistry
Department, Bowling Green State University, Overman Hall, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Fritz
Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Chemistry
Department, Bowling Green State University, Overman Hall, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
- Dipartimento
di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena, via A. Moro
2, 53100 Siena, Italy
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Isomerization of the RPSB chromophore in the gas phase along the torsional pathways using QTAIM. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.07.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Szefczyk B, Grabarek D, Walczak E, Andruniów T. Excited-state minima and emission energies of retinal chromophore analogues: Performance of CASSCF and CC2 methods as compared with CASPT2. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:1799-1810. [PMID: 28512740 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2017] [Revised: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
This study provides gas-phase S1 excited-state geometries along with emission and adiabatic energies for methylated/demethylated and ring-locked analogues of protonated Schiff base retinal models comprising system of five conjugated double bonds (PSB5), using second order multiconfiguration perturbation theory (CASPT2). CASPT2 results serve as reference data to assess the performance of CC2 (second-order approximate coupled cluster singles and doubles) and a commonly used CASSCF/CASPT2 protocol, that is, complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) geometry optimization followed by CASPT2 energy calculation. We find that the CASSCF methodology fails to locate planar S1 minimum energy structures for four out of five investigated planar models in contrast to CC2 and CASPT2 methods. However, for those which were found: one planar and two twisted minima, there is an excellent agreement between CASSCF and CASPT2 results in terms of geometrical parameters, one-electron properties, as well as emission and adiabatic energies. CC2 performs well for in-plane S1 minima and their spectroscopic and electronic properties. However, this picture deteriorates for twisted minima. As expected, the CC2 description of the S2 electronic state, with strong multireference and significant double excitation character, is very poor, exhibiting errors in transition energies exceeding 1 eV. They may be substantially diminished by recalculating transition energies with CASPT2 method. Our work shows that CASSCF/CASPT2 and CC2 shortcomings may influence gas-phase retinal analogues' excited state description in a dramatic way. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Borys Szefczyk
- Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland
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- Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland
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- Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland
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- Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group, Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, Wroclaw, 50-370, Poland
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Morrow JM, Castiglione GM, Dungan SZ, Tang PL, Bhattacharyya N, Hauser FE, Chang BSW. An experimental comparison of human and bovine rhodopsin provides insight into the molecular basis of retinal disease. FEBS Lett 2017; 591:1720-1731. [PMID: 28369862 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.12637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2017] [Revised: 03/22/2017] [Accepted: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
Abstract
Rhodopsin is the visual pigment that mediates dim-light vision in vertebrates and is a model system for the study of retinal disease. The majority of rhodopsin experiments are performed using bovine rhodopsin; however, recent evidence suggests that significant functional differences exist among mammalian rhodopsins. In this study, we identify differences in both thermal decay and light-activated retinal release rates between bovine and human rhodopsin and perform mutagenesis studies to highlight two clusters of substitutions that contribute to these differences. We also demonstrate that the retinitis pigmentosa-associated mutation G51A behaves differently in human rhodopsin compared to bovine rhodopsin and determine that the thermal decay rate of an ancestrally reconstructed mammalian rhodopsin displays an intermediate phenotype compared to the two extant pigments.
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- James M Morrow
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.,Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.,Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Canada
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Park JW, Shiozaki T. Analytical Derivative Coupling for Multistate CASPT2 Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:2561-2570. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Jae Woo Park
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Xie P, Zhou P, Alsaedi A, Zhang Y. pH-dependent absorption spectra of rhodopsin mutant E113Q: On the role of counterions and protein. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2017; 174:25-31. [PMID: 27865136 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2016.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2016] [Revised: 11/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/12/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
The absorption spectra of bovine rhodopsin mutant E113Q in solutions were investigated at the molecular level by using a hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method. The calculations suggest the mechanism of the absorption variations of E113Q at different pH values. The results indicate that the polarizations of the counterions in the vicinity of Schiff base under protonation and unprotonation states of the mutant E113Q would be a crucial factor to change the energy gap of the retinal to tune the absorption spectra. Glu-181 residue, which is close to the chromophore, cannot serve as the counterion of the protonated Schiff base of E113Q in dark state. Moreover, the results of the absorption maximum in mutant E113Q with the various anions (Cl-, Br-, I- and NO3-) manifested that the mutant E113Q could have the potential for use as a template of anion biosensors at visible wavelength.
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- Peng Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, People's Republic of China
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- Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics (NAAM) Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, People's Republic of China.
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Bauer CA, Hansen A, Grimme S. The Fractional Occupation Number Weighted Density as a Versatile Analysis Tool for Molecules with a Complicated Electronic Structure. Chemistry 2017; 23:6150-6164. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Christoph Alexander Bauer
- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry; Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Beringstr. 4 53115 Bonn Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry; Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Beringstr. 4 53115 Bonn Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry; Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Beringstr. 4 53115 Bonn Germany
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Varsano D, Caprasecca S, Coccia E. Theoretical description of protein field effects on electronic excitations of biological chromophores. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2017; 29:013002. [PMID: 27830666 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/29/1/013002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Photoinitiated phenomena play a crucial role in many living organisms. Plants, algae, and bacteria absorb sunlight to perform photosynthesis, and convert water and carbon dioxide into molecular oxygen and carbohydrates, thus forming the basis for life on Earth. The vision of vertebrates is accomplished in the eye by a protein called rhodopsin, which upon photon absorption performs an ultrafast isomerisation of the retinal chromophore, triggering the signal cascade. Many other biological functions start with the photoexcitation of a protein-embedded pigment, followed by complex processes comprising, for example, electron or excitation energy transfer in photosynthetic complexes. The optical properties of chromophores in living systems are strongly dependent on the interaction with the surrounding environment (nearby protein residues, membrane, water), and the complexity of such interplay is, in most cases, at the origin of the functional diversity of the photoactive proteins. The specific interactions with the environment often lead to a significant shift of the chromophore excitation energies, compared with their absorption in solution or gas phase. The investigation of the optical response of chromophores is generally not straightforward, from both experimental and theoretical standpoints; this is due to the difficulty in understanding diverse behaviours and effects, occurring at different scales, with a single technique. In particular, the role played by ab initio calculations in assisting and guiding experiments, as well as in understanding the physics of photoactive proteins, is fundamental. At the same time, owing to the large size of the systems, more approximate strategies which take into account the environmental effects on the absorption spectra are also of paramount importance. Here we review the recent advances in the first-principle description of electronic and optical properties of biological chromophores embedded in a protein environment. We show their applications on paradigmatic systems, such as the light-harvesting complexes, rhodopsin and green fluorescent protein, emphasising the theoretical frameworks which are of common use in solid state physics, and emerging as promising tools for biomolecular systems.
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- Daniele Varsano
- S3 Center, CNR Institute of Nanoscience, Via Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy
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Segarra-Martí J, Francés-Monerris A, Roca-Sanjuán D, Merchán M. Assessment of the Potential Energy Hypersurfaces in Thymine within Multiconfigurational Theory: CASSCF vs. CASPT2. Molecules 2016; 21:molecules21121666. [PMID: 27918489 PMCID: PMC6274573 DOI: 10.3390/molecules21121666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2016] [Revised: 11/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The present study provides new insights into the topography of the potential energy hypersurfaces (PEHs) of the thymine nucleobase in order to rationalize its main ultrafast photochemical decay paths by employing two methodologies based on the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and the complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) methods: (i) CASSCF optimized structures and energies corrected with the CASPT2 method at the CASSCF geometries and (ii) CASPT2 optimized geometries and energies. A direct comparison between these strategies is drawn, yielding qualitatively similar results within a static framework. A number of analyses are performed to assess the accuracy of these different computational strategies under study based on a variety of numerical thresholds and optimization methods. Several basis sets and active spaces have also been calibrated to understand to what extent they can influence the resulting geometries and subsequent interpretation of the photochemical decay channels. The study shows small discrepancies between CASSCF and CASPT2 PEHs, displaying a shallow planar or twisted 1(ππ*) minimum, respectively, and thus featuring a qualitatively similar scenario for supporting the ultrafast bi-exponential deactivation registered in thymine upon UV-light exposure. A deeper knowledge of the PEHs at different levels of theory provides useful insight into its correct characterization and subsequent interpretation of the experimental observations. The discrepancies displayed by the different methods studied here are then discussed and framed within their potential consequences in on-the-fly non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations, where qualitatively diverse outcomes are expected.
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- Javier Segarra-Martí
- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, P. O. Box 22085, ES-46071 Valencia, Spain.
- Present Address: Laboratoire de Chimie UMR 5182, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Université de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, P. O. Box 22085, ES-46071 Valencia, Spain.
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, P. O. Box 22085, ES-46071 Valencia, Spain.
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de València, P. O. Box 22085, ES-46071 Valencia, Spain.
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Melaccio F, del Carmen Marín M, Valentini A, Montisci F, Rinaldi S, Cherubini M, Yang X, Kato Y, Stenrup M, Orozco-Gonzalez Y, Ferré N, Luk HL, Kandori H, Olivucci M. Toward Automatic Rhodopsin Modeling as a Tool for High-Throughput Computational Photobiology. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:6020-6034. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Federico Melaccio
- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department
of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR, 13284 Marseille, France
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- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
- Institut
de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, UMR 7504 Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
- USIAS
Institut d’Études Avancées, Université de Strasbourg, 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, F-67083 Strasbourg, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, ICR, 13284 Marseille, France
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- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department
of Frontier Materials, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department
of Biotechnology, Chemistry e Pharmacy, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy
- Department
of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
- Institut
de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, UMR 7504 Université de Strasbourg-CNRS, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
- USIAS
Institut d’Études Avancées, Université de Strasbourg, 5 allée du Général Rouvillois, F-67083 Strasbourg, France
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Parker SM, Roy S, Furche F. Unphysical divergences in response theory. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:134105. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4963749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Shane M. Parker
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 1102 Natural Sciences II, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 1102 Natural Sciences II, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 1102 Natural Sciences II, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA
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Udvarhelyi A, Olivucci M, Domratcheva T. Role of the Molecular Environment in Flavoprotein Color and Redox Tuning: QM Cluster versus QM/MM Modeling. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:3878-94. [PMID: 26574469 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
We investigate the origin of the excitation energy shifts induced by the apoprotein in the active site of the bacterial photoreceptor BLUF (Blue Light sensor Using Flavin adenine dinucleotide). In order to compute the vertical excitation energies of three low-lying electronic states, including two π-π* states of flavin (S1 and S2) and a π-π* tyrosine-flavin electron-transfer state (ET), with respect to the energy of the closed-shell ground state (S0), we prepared alternative quantum mechanical (QM) cluster and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) models. We found that the excitation energies computed with both types of models correlate with the magnitude of the charge transfer character of the excitation. Accordingly, we conclude that the small charge transfer character of the light absorbing S0-S1 transition and the substantial charge transfer character of the nonabsorbing but redox active S0-ET transition explain the small color changes but substantial redox tuning in BLUF and also in other flavoproteins. Further analysis showed that redox tuning is governed by the electrostatic interaction in the QM/MM model and transfer of charge between the active site and its environment in the QM cluster. Moreover, the wave function polarization of the QM subsystem by the MM subsystem influences the magnitude of the charge transfer, resulting in the QM/MM and QM excitation energies that are not entirely consistent.
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- Anikó Udvarhelyi
- Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, via A. Moro 2, Universitá di Siena , I-53100 Siena, Italy.,Chemistry Department, Overman Hall, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 67200, United States.,Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg , Batiment 69, 23 Rue du Loess, 67200 Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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El-Tahawy MMT, Nenov A, Garavelli M. Photoelectrochromism in the Retinal Protonated Schiff Base Chromophore: Photoisomerization Speed and Selectivity under a Homogeneous Electric Field at Different Operational Regimes. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:4460-75. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mohsen M. T. El-Tahawy
- Dipartimento
di Chimica “G. Ciamician″, Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, Via Selmi, 2 I - 40126 Bologna, Italy
- Chemistry
Department, Faculty of Science, Damanhour University, Damanhour 22511, Egypt
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica “G. Ciamician″, Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, Via Selmi, 2 I - 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica “G. Ciamician″, Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna, Via Selmi, 2 I - 40126 Bologna, Italy
- Université
de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENS Lyon, Centre
Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, 46 allée d’Italie, 69007 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Fdez. Galván I, Delcey MG, Pedersen TB, Aquilante F, Lindh R. Analytical State-Average Complete-Active-Space Self-Consistent Field Nonadiabatic Coupling Vectors: Implementation with Density-Fitted Two-Electron Integrals and Application to Conical Intersections. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:3636-53. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Kenneth
S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Centre
for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O.
Box 1033 Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Dipartimento
di Chimica “G. Ciamician”, Università di Bologna, Via F. Selmi 2, IT-40126 Bologna, Italy
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Zen A, Coccia E, Gozem S, Olivucci M, Guidoni L. Quantum Monte Carlo Treatment of the Charge Transfer and Diradical Electronic Character in a Retinal Chromophore Minimal Model. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:992-1005. [PMID: 25821414 PMCID: PMC4357234 DOI: 10.1021/ct501122z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The
penta-2,4-dieniminium cation (PSB3) displays similar ground
state and first excited state potential energy features as those of
the retinal protonated Schiff base (RPSB) chromophore in rhodopsin.
Recently, PSB3 has been used to benchmark several electronic structure
methods, including highly correlated multireference wave function
approaches, highlighting the necessity to accurately describe the
electronic correlation in order to obtain reliable properties even
along the ground state (thermal) isomerization paths. In this work,
we apply two quantum Monte Carlo approaches, the variational Monte
Carlo and the lattice regularized diffusion Monte Carlo, to study
the energetics and electronic properties of PSB3 along representative
minimum energy paths and scans related to its thermal cis–trans isomerization. Quantum Monte Carlo
is used in combination with the Jastrow antisymmetrized geminal power
ansatz, which guarantees an accurate and balanced description of the
static electronic correlation thanks to the multiconfigurational nature
of the antisymmetrized geminal power term, and of the dynamical correlation,
due to the presence of the Jastrow factor explicitly depending on
electron–electron distances. Along the two ground state isomerization
minimum energy paths of PSB3, CASSCF calculations yield wave functions
having either charge transfer or diradical character in proximity
of the two transition state configurations. Here, we observe that
at the quantum Monte Carlo level of theory, only the transition state
with charge transfer character can be located. The conical intersection,
which becomes highly sloped, is observed only if the path connecting
the two original CASSCF transition states is extended beyond the diradical
one, namely by increasing the bond-length-alternation (BLA). These
findings are in good agreement with the results obtained by MRCISD+Q
calculations, and they demonstrate the importance of having an accurate
description of the static and dynamical correlation when studying
isomerization and transition states of conjugated systems.
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Mai S, Marquetand P, González L. Intersystem Crossing Pathways in the Noncanonical Nucleobase 2-Thiouracil: A Time-Dependent Picture. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:1978-83. [PMID: 27167106 PMCID: PMC4893732 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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The deactivation mechanism after ultraviolet irradiation of 2-thiouracil has been investigated using nonadiabatic dynamics simulations at the MS-CASPT2 level of theory. It is found that after excitation the S2 quickly relaxes to S1, and from there intersystem crossing takes place to both T2 and T1 with a time constant of 400 fs and a triplet yield above 80%, in very good agreement with recent femtosecond experiments in solution. Both indirect S1 → T2 → T1 and direct S1 → T1 pathways contribute to intersystem crossing, with the former being predominant. The results contribute to the understanding of how some noncanonical nucleobases respond to harmful ultraviolet light, which could be relevant for prospective photochemotherapeutic applications.
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Herbert JM, Zhang X, Morrison AF, Liu J. Beyond Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory Using Only Single Excitations: Methods for Computational Studies of Excited States in Complex Systems. Acc Chem Res 2016; 49:931-41. [PMID: 27100899 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Single-excitation methods, namely, configuration interaction singles and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT), along with semiempirical versions thereof, represent the most computationally affordable electronic structure methods for describing electronically excited states, scaling as [Formula: see text] absent further approximations. This relatively low cost, combined with a treatment of electron correlation, has made TDDFT the most widely used excited-state quantum chemistry method over the past 20+ years. Nevertheless, certain inherent problems (beyond just the accuracy of this or that exchange-correlation functional) limit the utility of traditional TDDFT. For one, it affords potential energy surfaces whose topology is incorrect in the vicinity of any conical intersection (CI) that involves the ground state. Since CIs are the conduits for transitions between electronic states, the TDDFT description of photochemistry (internal conversion and intersystem crossing) is therefore suspect. Second, the [Formula: see text] cost can become prohibitive in large systems, especially those that involve multiple electronically coupled chromophores, for example, the antennae structures of light-harvesting complexes or the conjugated polymers used in organic photovoltaics. In such cases, the smallest realistic mimics might already be quite large from the standpoint of ab initio quantum chemistry. This Account describes several new computational methods that address these problems. Topology around a CI can be rigorously corrected using a "spin-flip" version of TDDFT, which involves an α → β spin-flipping transition in addition to occupied → virtual excitation of one electron. Within this formalism, singlet states are generated via excitation from a high-spin triplet reference state, doublets from a quartet, etc. This provides a more balanced treatment of electron correlation between ground and excited states. Spin contamination is problematic away from the Franck-Condon region, but we describe a "spin-complete" version of the theory in which proper spin eigenstates are obtained by construction. For systems of coupled chromophores, we have developed an ab initio version of the Frenkel-Davydov exciton model in which collective excitations of the system are expanded in a basis of excited states computed for individual chromophores. The monomer calculations are trivially parallelizable, as is computation of the coupling matrix elements needed to construct the exciton Hamiltonian, and systems containing hundreds of chromophores can be tackled on commodity hardware. This enables calculations on organic semiconductors, where even small model systems exhibit a semicontinuum of excited states that renders traditional TDDFT computationally challenging. Despite including only single excitations on each monomer, the exciton model can describe entangled spins on two or more monomers, an effect that is responsible for excitation energy transfer between chromophores, for example, in singlet fission. Excitonic approximations can also be applied to the TDDFT equations themselves, and a particularly promising application is to describe the effects of environment on an excitation that is localized on a single chromophore. This "local excitation approximation" to TDDFT allows an essentially arbitrary number of solvent molecules to be included in the calculation in a highly parallelizable way such that the time-to-solution increases only very slowly as additional solvent molecules are added. It is therefore possible to converge the calculation with respect to describing an ever-larger portion of the environment at a quantum-mechanical level.
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- John M. Herbert
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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Schapiro I. The Origin of Bond Selectivity and Excited-State Reactivity in Retinal Analogues. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:3353-65. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b00701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Igor Schapiro
- Fritz Haber
Center for Molecular
Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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Grabarek D, Walczak E, Andruniów T. Assessing the Accuracy of Various Ab Initio Methods for Geometries and Excitation Energies of Retinal Chromophore Minimal Model by Comparison with CASPT3 Results. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:2346-56. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Dawid Grabarek
- Advanced Materials Engineering
and Modelling Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego
27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Advanced Materials Engineering
and Modelling Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego
27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
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- Advanced Materials Engineering
and Modelling Group, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wyb. Wyspianskiego
27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland
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Pastore M, De Angelis F, Angeli C. Optical absorption spectrum of the N3 solar cell sensitizer by second-order multireference perturbation theory. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-016-1868-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Segarra-Martí J, Garavelli M, Aquilante F. Multiconfigurational Second-Order Perturbation Theory with Frozen Natural Orbitals Extended to the Treatment of Photochemical Problems. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:3772-84. [PMID: 26574459 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A new flavor of the frozen natural orbital complete active space second-order perturbation theory method (FNO-CASPT2, Aquilante et al., J. Chem. Phys. 131, 034113) is proposed herein. In this new implementation, the virtual space in Cholesky decomposition-based CASPT2 computations (CD-CASPT2) is truncated by excluding those orbitals that contribute the least toward preserving a predefined value of the trace of an approximate density matrix, as that represents a measure of the amount of dynamic correlation retained in the model. In this way, the amount of correlation included is practically constant at all nuclear arrangements, thus allowing for the computation of smooth electronic states surfaces and energy gradients-essential requirements for theoretical studies in photochemistry. The method has been benchmarked for a series of relevant biochromophores for which large speed-ups have been recorded while retaining the accuracy achieved in the corresponding CD-CASPT2 calculations. Both vertical excitation energies and gradient calculations have been carried out to establish general guidelines as to how much correlation needs to be retained in the calculation for the results to be consistent with the CD-CASPT2 findings. Our results feature errors within a tenth of an eV for the most difficult cases and have been validated to be used for gradient computations where an up to 3-fold speed-up is observed depending on the size of the system and the basis set employed.
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- Javier Segarra-Martí
- Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Università di Bologna , Via Selmi 2, IT-40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Università di Bologna , Via Selmi 2, IT-40126 Bologna, Italy.,Université de Lyon, CNRS , Institut de Chimie de Lyon, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Università di Bologna , Via Selmi 2, IT-40126 Bologna, Italy
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Plasser F, Ruckenbauer M, Mai S, Oppel M, Marquetand P, González L. Efficient and Flexible Computation of Many-Electron Wave Function Overlaps. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:1207-19. [PMID: 26854874 PMCID: PMC4785508 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b01148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A new algorithm for the computation of the overlap between many-electron wave functions is described. This algorithm allows for the extensive use of recurring intermediates and thus provides high computational efficiency. Because of the general formalism employed, overlaps can be computed for varying wave function types, molecular orbitals, basis sets, and molecular geometries. This paves the way for efficiently computing nonadiabatic interaction terms for dynamics simulations. In addition, other application areas can be envisaged, such as the comparison of wave functions constructed at different levels of theory. Aside from explaining the algorithm and evaluating the performance, a detailed analysis of the numerical stability of wave function overlaps is carried out, and strategies for overcoming potential severe pitfalls due to displaced atoms and truncated wave functions are presented.
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- Felix Plasser
- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Theoretical
Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Nile blue and Nile red optical properties predicted by TD-DFT and CASPT2 methods: static and dynamic solvent effects. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-016-1814-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ockenfels A, Schapiro I, Gärtner W. Rhodopsins carrying modified chromophores--the 'making of', structural modelling and their light-induced reactivity. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2016; 15:297-308. [PMID: 26860474 DOI: 10.1039/c5pp00322a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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A series of vitamin-A aldehydes (retinals) with modified alkyl group substituents (9-demethyl-, 9-ethyl-, 9-isopropyl-, 10-methyl, 10-methyl-13-demethyl-, and 13-demethyl retinal) was synthesized and their 11-cis isomers were used as chromophores to reconstitute the visual pigment rhodopsin. Structural changes were selectively introduced around the photoisomerizing C11=C12 bond. The effect of these structural changes on rhodopsin formation and bleaching was determined. Global fit of assembly kinetics yielded lifetimes and spectral features of the assembly intermediates. Rhodopsin formation proceeds stepwise with prolonged lifetimes especially for 9-demethyl retinal (longest lifetime τ3 = 7500 s, cf., 3500 s for retinal), and for 10-methyl retinal (τ3 = 7850 s). These slowed-down processes are interpreted as either a loss of fixation (9dm) or an increased steric hindrance (10me) during the conformational adjustment within the protein. Combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations provided structural insight into the retinal analogues-assembled, full-length rhodopsins. Extinction coefficients, quantum yields and kinetics of the bleaching process (μs-to-ms time range) were determined. Global fit analysis yielded lifetimes and spectral features of bleaching intermediates, revealing remarkably altered kinetics: whereas the slowest process of wild-type rhodopsin and of bleached and 11-cis retinal assembled rhodopsin takes place with lifetimes of 7 and 3.8 s, respectively, this process for 10-methyl-13-demethyl retinal was nearly 10 h (34670 s), coming to completion only after ca. 50 h. The structural changes in retinal derivatives clearly identify the precise interactions between chromophore and protein during the light-induced changes that yield the outstanding efficiency of rhodopsin.
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- Andreas Ockenfels
- Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Stiftstrasse 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim, Germany.
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Liu L, Liu J, Martinez TJ. Dynamical Correlation Effects on Photoisomerization: Ab Initio Multiple Spawning Dynamics with MS-CASPT2 for a Model trans-Protonated Schiff Base. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:1940-9. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lihong Liu
- Key
Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry
of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
- Department
of Chemistry and PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94309, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94309, United States
- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Theoretical
and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department
of Chemistry and PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94309, United States
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Manathunga M, Yang X, Luk HL, Gozem S, Frutos LM, Valentini A, Ferrè N, Olivucci M. Probing the Photodynamics of Rhodopsins with Reduced Retinal Chromophores. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:839-50. [PMID: 26640959 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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While the light-induced population dynamics of different photoresponsive proteins has been investigated spectroscopically, systematic computational studies have not yet been possible due to the phenomenally high cost of suitable high level quantum chemical methods and the need of propagating hundreds, if not thousands, of nonadiabatic trajectories. Here we explore the possibility of studying the photodynamics of rhodopsins by constructing and investigating quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) models featuring reduced retinal chromophores. In order to do so we use the sensory rhodopsin found in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120 (ASR) as a benchmark system. We find that the basic mechanistic features associated with the excited state dynamics of ASR QM/MM models are reproduced using models incorporating a minimal (i.e., three double-bond) chromophore. Furthermore, we show that ensembles of nonadiabatic ASR trajectories computed using the same abridged models replicate, at both the CASPT2 and CASSCF levels of theory, the trends in spectroscopy and lifetimes estimated using unabridged models and observed experimentally at room temperature. We conclude that a further expansion of these studies may lead to low-cost QM/MM rhodopsin models that may be used as effective tools in high-throughput in silico mutant screening.
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- Madushanka Manathunga
- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Alcalá , E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena , via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Siena, Italy.,Departamento de Química Física, Universidad de Alcalá , E-28871 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire, 13397 Marseille, Cedex 20, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States.,Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena , via A. Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Siena, Italy.,University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies, 5, allée du Général Rouvillois, F-67083 Strasbourg, France
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Molecular bases for the selection of the chromophore of animal rhodopsins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:15297-302. [PMID: 26607446 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1510262112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The functions of microbial and animal rhodopsins are triggered by the isomerization of their all-trans and 11-cis retinal chromophores, respectively. To lay the molecular basis driving the evolutionary transition from the all-trans to the 11-cis chromophore, multiconfigurational quantum chemistry is used to compare the isomerization mechanisms of the sensory rhodopsin from the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120 (ASR) and of the bovine rhodopsin (Rh). It is found that, despite their evolutionary distance, these eubacterial and vertebrate rhodopsins start to isomerize via distinct implementations of the same bicycle-pedal mechanism originally proposed by Warshel [Warshel A (1976) Nature 260:678-683]. However, by following the electronic structure changes of ASR (featuring the all-trans chromophore) during the isomerization, we find that ASR enters a region of degeneracy between the first and second excited states not found in Rh (featuring the 11-cis chromophore). We show that such degeneracy is modulated by the preorganized structure of the chromophore and by the position of the reactive double bond. It is argued that the optimization of the electronic properties of the chromophore, which affects the photoisomerization efficiency and the thermal isomerization barrier, provided a key factor for the emergence of the striking amino acid sequence divergence observed between the microbial and animal rhodopsins.
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Tuna D, Lefrancois D, Wolański Ł, Gozem S, Schapiro I, Andruniów T, Dreuw A, Olivucci M. Assessment of Approximate Coupled-Cluster and Algebraic-Diagrammatic-Construction Methods for Ground- and Excited-State Reaction Paths and the Conical-Intersection Seam of a Retinal-Chromophore Model. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:5758-81. [PMID: 26642989 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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As a minimal model of the chromophore of rhodopsin proteins, the penta-2,4-dieniminium cation (PSB3) poses a challenging test system for the assessment of electronic-structure methods for the exploration of ground- and excited-state potential-energy surfaces, the topography of conical intersections, and the dimensionality (topology) of the branching space. Herein, we report on the performance of the approximate linear-response coupled-cluster method of second order (CC2) and the algebraic-diagrammatic-construction scheme of the polarization propagator of second and third orders (ADC(2) and ADC(3)). For the ADC(2) method, we considered both the strict and extended variants (ADC(2)-s and ADC(2)-x). For both CC2 and ADC methods, we also tested the spin-component-scaled (SCS) and spin-opposite-scaled (SOS) variants. We have explored several ground- and excited-state reaction paths, a circular path centered around the S1/S0 surface crossing, and a 2D scan of the potential-energy surfaces along the branching space. We find that the CC2 and ADC methods yield a different dimensionality of the intersection space. While the ADC methods yield a linear intersection topology, we find a conical intersection topology for the CC2 method. We present computational evidence showing that the linear-response CC2 method yields a surface crossing between the reference state and the first response state featuring characteristics that are expected for a true conical intersection. Finally, we test the performance of these methods for the approximate geometry optimization of the S1/S0 minimum-energy conical intersection and compare the geometries with available data from multireference methods. The present study provides new insight into the performance of linear-response CC2 and polarization-propagator ADC methods for molecular electronic spectroscopy and applications in computational photochemistry.
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- Deniz Tuna
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg , 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology , 50370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg & Labex NIE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7504 , Strasbourg 67034, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology , 50370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg , 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43402, United States.,Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Universitá de Siena , 53100 Siena, Italy
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Mai S, Marquetand P, González L. A Static Picture of the Relaxation and Intersystem Crossing Mechanisms of Photoexcited 2-Thiouracil. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:9524-33. [PMID: 26284285 PMCID: PMC4568544 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b06639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2015] [Revised: 08/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Accurate excited-state quantum chemical calculations on 2-thiouracil, employing large active spaces and up to quadruple-ζ quality basis sets in multistate complete active space perturbation theory calculations, are reported. The results suggest that the main relaxation path for 2-thiouracil after photoexcitation should be S2 → S1 → T2 → T1, and that this relaxation occurs on a subpicosecond time scale. There are two deactivation pathways from the initially excited bright S2 state to S1, one of which is nearly barrierless and should promote ultrafast internal conversion. After relaxation to the S1 minimum, small singlet-triplet energy gaps and spin-orbit couplings of about 130 cm(-1) are expected to facilitate intersystem crossing to T2, from where very fast internal conversion to T1 occurs. An important finding is that 2-thiouracil shows strong pyramidalization at the carbon atom of the thiocarbonyl group in several excited states.
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- Sebastian Mai
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics of photoisomerization reaction between 1,3-cyclohexadiene and 1,3,5-cis-hexatriene. Chem Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2015.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Liu L, Cui G, Fang WH. Excited States and Photochemistry of Chromophores in the Photoactive Proteins Explored by the Combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Calculations. ADVANCES IN PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2015; 100:255-84. [PMID: 26415847 DOI: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2015.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A photoactive protein usually contains a unique chromophore that is responsible for the initial photoresponse and functions of the photoactive protein are determined by the interaction between the chromophore and its protein surroundings. The combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approach is demonstrated to be a very useful tool for exploring structures and functions of a photoactive protein with the chromophore and its protein surroundings treated by the QM and MM methods, respectively. In this review, we summarize the basic formulas of the QM/MM approach and emphasize its applications to excited states and photoreactions of chromophores in rhodopsin protein, photoactive yellow protein, and green fluorescent protein.
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- Lihong Liu
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Grigorenko BL, Nemukhin AV, Polyakov IV, Khrenova MG, Krylov AI. A Light-Induced Reaction with Oxygen Leads to Chromophore Decomposition and Irreversible Photobleaching in GFP-Type Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:5444-52. [PMID: 25867185 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b02271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Photobleaching and photostability of proteins of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) family are crucially important for practical applications of these widely used biomarkers. On the basis of simulations, we propose a mechanism for irreversible bleaching in GFP-type proteins under intense light illumination. The key feature of the mechanism is a photoinduced reaction of the chromophore with molecular oxygen (O2) inside the protein barrel leading to the chromophore's decomposition. Using quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) modeling we show that a model system comprising the protein-bound Chro(-) and O2 can be excited to an electronic state of the intermolecular charge-transfer (CT) character (Chro(•)···O2(-•)). Once in the CT state, the system undergoes a series of chemical reactions with low activation barriers resulting in the cleavage of the bridging bond between the phenolic and imidazolinone rings and disintegration of the chromophore.
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- Bella L Grigorenko
- †Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation.,‡N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation
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- †Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation.,‡N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation
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- †Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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- †Department of Chemistry, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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- §Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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Valsson O, Filippi C, Casida ME. Regarding the use and misuse of retinal protonated Schiff base photochemistry as a test case for time-dependent density-functional theory. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:144104. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4916354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Khrenova MG, Nemukhin AV, Domratcheva T. Theoretical Characterization of the Flavin-Based Fluorescent Protein iLOV and its Q489K Mutant. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:5176-83. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b01299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Maria G. Khrenova
- Chemistry
Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie
Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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- Chemistry
Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie
Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
- N.M.
Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119334, Russian Federation
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- Department
of Biomolecular Mechanisms, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Jahnstrasse 29, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Schapiro I, Roca-Sanjuán D, Lindh R, Olivucci M. A surface hopping algorithm for nonadiabatic minimum energy path calculations. J Comput Chem 2015; 36:312-20. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2014] [Revised: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 11/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Igor Schapiro
- Department of Chemistry; Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green Ohio 43403
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- Instituto de Ciencia Molecular; Universitat de València; P. O. Box 22085 València 46071 Spain
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- Department of Chemistry-Ångström; Theoretical Chemistry Programme, Uppsala University; P. O. Box 518 Uppsala 75120 Sweden
- Uppsala Center for Computational Chemistry - UC 3; Uppsala University; P. O. Box 518 Uppsala 75120 Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry; Bowling Green State University; Bowling Green Ohio 43403
- Dipartimento di Biotechnologie, Chimica e Farmacia; Università di Siena; Siena 53100 Italy
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Cheminal A, Léonard J, Kim SY, Jung KH, Kandori H, Haacke S. 100 fs photo-isomerization with vibrational coherences but low quantum yield in Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:25429-39. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04353k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Counter-intuitive photochemistry: in Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin, the retinal 13-cis isomer isomerizes much faster than all-trans ASR, but with a 3-times lower quantum yield.
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- Alexandre Cheminal
- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg & Labex NIE
- Université de Strasbourg – CNRS
- 67034 Strasbourg
- France
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg & Labex NIE
- Université de Strasbourg – CNRS
- 67034 Strasbourg
- France
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- Department of Life Science and Institute of Biological Interfaces
- Sogang University
- Mapo-Gu
- South Korea
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- Department of Life Science and Institute of Biological Interfaces
- Sogang University
- Mapo-Gu
- South Korea
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- Department of Frontier Materials
- Nagoya Institute of Technology
- Showa-ku
- Japan
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg & Labex NIE
- Université de Strasbourg – CNRS
- 67034 Strasbourg
- France
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Huix-Rotllant M, Nikiforov A, Thiel W, Filatov M. Description of Conical Intersections with Density Functional Methods. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2015; 368:445-76. [PMID: 25896441 DOI: 10.1007/128_2015_631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Conical intersections are perhaps the most significant mechanistic features of chemical reactions occurring through excited states. By providing funnels for efficient non-adiabatic population transfer, conical intersections govern the branching ratio of products of such reactions, similar to what the transition states do for ground-state reactivity. In this regard, intersections between the ground and the lowest excited states play a special role, and the correct description of the potential energy surfaces in their vicinity is crucial for understanding the mechanism and dynamics of excited-state reactions. The methods of density functional theory, such as time-dependent density functional theory, are widely used to describe the excited states of large molecules. However, are these methods suitable for describing the conical intersections or do they lead to artifacts and, consequently, to erroneous description of reaction dynamics? Here we address the first part of this question and analyze the ability of several density functional approaches, including the linear-response time-dependent approach as well as the spin-flip and ensemble formalisms, to provide the correct description of conical intersections and the potential energy surfaces in their vicinity. It is demonstrated that the commonly used linear-response time-dependent theory does not yield a proper description of these features and that one should instead use alternative computational approaches.
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- Miquel Huix-Rotllant
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Dokukina I, Weingart O. Spectral properties and isomerisation path of retinal in C1C2 channelrhodopsin. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:25142-50. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02650d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Computed torsion profiles along the reactive coordinate in S1reveal a two-path deactivation mechanism for retinal in C1C2 channelrhodopsin.
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- I. Dokukina
- Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Computerchemie
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 40225 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Computerchemie
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- 40225 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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Sala M, Guérin S, Gatti F. Quantum dynamics of the photostability of pyrazine. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:29518-30. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04605j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We propose a new mechanism for the radiationless decay of photoexcited pyrazine to its ground electronic state involving a conical intersection between the dark Au(nπ) state and the ground state.
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- Matthieu Sala
- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne UMR 6303 CNRS
- Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
- F-21078 Dijon
- France
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- Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne UMR 6303 CNRS
- Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
- F-21078 Dijon
- France
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- CTMM
- Institut Charles Gerhardt UMR 5253 CNRS
- F-34095 Montpellier
- France
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Walczak E, Andruniów T. Impacts of retinal polyene (de)methylation on the photoisomerization mechanism and photon energy storage of rhodopsin. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:17169-81. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01939g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Similar to native rhodopsin, a two-mode space-saving isomerization mechanism drives the photoreaction in (de)methylated rhodopsin analogues.
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- Elżbieta Walczak
- Department of Chemistry
- Wroclaw University of Technology
- 50-370 Wroclaw
- Poland
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- Department of Chemistry
- Wroclaw University of Technology
- 50-370 Wroclaw
- Poland
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