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Omelchenko AN, Okotrub KA, Igonina TN, Rakhmanova TA, Okotrub SV, Rozhkova IN, Kozeneva VS, Amstislavsky SY, Surovtsev NV. Probing metabolism in mouse embryos using Raman spectroscopy and deuterium tags. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 325:125044. [PMID: 39236570 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.125044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2024] [Revised: 08/21/2024] [Accepted: 08/24/2024] [Indexed: 09/07/2024]
Abstract
The use of deuterated compounds is an interesting opportunity to expand the capabilities of Raman spectroscopy to study metabolism in living cells. Different biological objects have different tolerances to different deuterated compounds, and their metabolic chains may differ. Here, we explore the potential of this approach to probe metabolism in early mouse embryos. We investigated the Raman spectra of mouse embryos at different developmental stages cultured with deuterated amino acids, phenylalanine-d8 and leucine-d10, glucose-d7, and D2O. Embryos after in vitro culture with 20 % v/v D2O demonstrate Raman peak at 2186 cm-1 corresponding to newly synthesized proteins. Deuterated amino acids can slow down the development rate in 4-8 cell stage embryos, and deuterated glucose can be used at 2 mM concentration. For blastocyst, it was possible to achieve 75 % fraction of deuterated phenylalanine, when cultured with glucose, the maximal intensity ratio between CD and CH bands was 13.7 %. To demonstrate the capabilities of Raman spectroscopy reinforced by deuterium labeling, we investigated the short-term effect of cryopreservation and revealed that cryopreservation decreases the amount of saccharides in embryos and does not affect the activity of protein de novo synthesis.
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- A N Omelchenko
- Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia.
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Chen D, Gao J, Zheng D, Guo Z, Zhao Z. Gas Phase Conformation of Trisaccharides and Core Pentasaccharide: A Three-Step Tree-Based Sampling and Quantum Mechanical Computational Approach. Molecules 2023; 28:8093. [PMID: 38138582 PMCID: PMC10745714 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28248093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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As an important component of N-linked glycoproteins, the core pentasaccharide is highly crucial to the potential application prospect of glycoprotein. However, the gas phase conformation study is a challenging one due to the size and complexity of the molecule, together with the necessity to rely on quantum chemistry modeling for relevant energetics and structures. In this paper, the structures of the trisaccharides and core pentasaccharides in N-linked glycans in the gas phase were constructed by a three-step tree-based (TSTB) sampling. Since single point energies of all the conformers are calculated at the temperature of zero, it is necessary to evaluate the stability at a high temperature. We calculate the Gibbs free energies using the standard thermochemistry model (T = 298.15 K). For trimannose, the energetic ordering at 298.15 K can be strongly changed compared to 0 K. Moreover, two structures of trimannose with high energies at 0 K are considered to provide a much better match of IR vibration signatures with the low Gibbs free energies. On this basis, the core pentasaccharide was constructed in three ways. The building configurations of core pentasaccharide were optimized to obtain reasonable low-energy stable conformers. Fortunately, the lowest-energy structure of core pentasaccharide is eventually the minimum at 0 K and 298.15 K. Furthermore, spectrum analysis of core pentasaccharide was carried out. Although poorly resolved, its contour from the experiment was in qualitative correspondence with the computed IR spectrum associated with its minimum free energy structure. A large number of strongly and weakly hydrogen-bonded hydroxyl and acetylamino groups contribute to a highly congested set of overlapping bands. Compared with traditional conformation generators, the TSTB sampling is employed to efficiently and comprehensively obtain preferred conformers of larger saccharides with lower energy.
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- Dong Chen
- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
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- School of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China; (J.G.); (D.Z.); (Z.G.)
- Henan Province Engineering Research Center of Metal Matrix in situ Composites Based on Aluminum, Magnesium or Copper, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
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Kalhor S, Fattahi A. Design of ionic liquids containing glucose and choline as drug carriers, finding the link between QM and MD studies. Sci Rep 2022; 12:21941. [PMID: 36535965 PMCID: PMC9763358 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25963-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Designing drug delivery systems for therapeutic compounds whose receptors are located in the cytosol of cells is challenging as a bilayer cell membrane is negatively charged. The newly designed drug delivery systems should assist the mentioned drugs in passing the membrane barriers and achieving their targets. This study concentrated on developing novel ionic liquids (ILs) that interact effectively with cell membranes. These ILs are based on glucose-containing choline and are expected to be non-toxic. The binding energies of the known pharmaceutically active ionic liquids were calculated at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level in the gas phase and compared with those of our newly designed carbohydrate-based ionic liquids. Subsequently, we employed MD simulations to obtain information about the interactions of these known and designed ILs with the cell membrane. In our approach, we adopted QM and MD studies and illustrated that there could be a link between the QM and MD results.
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- Sepideh Kalhor
- Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
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Comparative conformational studies of 3,4,6-tri- O -acetyl-1,5-anhydro-2-deoxyhex-1-enitols at the DFT level. Carbohydr Res 2018; 462:13-27. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2018.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Dissecting the role of dispersion on the quantum topology phase diagram of monosaccharide isomers. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-016-1869-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Bednarko J, Wielińska J, Sikora K, Liberek B, Nowacki A. Theoretical studies on the reaction of mono- and ditriflate derivatives of 1,4:3,6-dianhydro-D-mannitol with trimethylamine--Can a quaternary ammonium salt be a source of the methyl group? J Comput Aided Mol Des 2015; 30:13-26. [PMID: 26667239 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-015-9885-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2015] [Accepted: 11/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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DFT studies on the mechanism of the formation of "gemini" quaternary ammonium salts in the reaction of 1,4:3,6-dianhydro-D-mannitol ditriflate derivative with trimethylamine and its subsequent conversion to tertiary amine through the methyl-transfer reaction are discussed. Two alternative reaction pathways are presented in the gas phase and in ethanol. Additionally, the transformation of the monotriflate derivative of 1,4:3,6-dianhydro-D-mannitol into the single quaternary ammonium salt is presented. Two functionals (B3LYP, M062X) and two basis sets (6-31+G** and 6-311++G**) were used for the calculations. The effect of the substituent attached to the five-membered rings at the C2 (and/or C5) carbon atom on the activation barrier is described. The trimethylammonium group bond to the five-membered ring greatly reduces the activation barrier height. The preferred reaction pathway for the conversions was established. Including the London dispersion in the calculations increases the stabilization of all the points on the potential energy surface in relation to individual reactants.
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- Justyna Bednarko
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 63, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland.
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Nowacki A, Myszka H, Liberek B. Conformational studies of diosgenyl 2-amino-2-deoxy-β-d-glucopyranosides at the PM3 and DFT levels of theory. Carbohydr Res 2013; 377:4-13. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2013] [Revised: 05/17/2013] [Accepted: 05/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Chen D, Yao Y, Wei Z, Zhang S, Tu P, Liu B, Dong M. Determining the structural preferences of dimannosides through the linkage constraint and hydrogen-bonded network. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2013.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Acetylated methyl 1,2-dideoxyhex-1-enopyranuronates in density functional theory conformational studies. Carbohydr Res 2013; 371:1-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2012] [Revised: 01/10/2013] [Accepted: 01/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Sameera WMC, Pantazis DA. A Hierarchy of Methods for the Energetically Accurate Modeling of Isomerism in Monosaccharides. J Chem Theory Comput 2012; 8:2630-45. [PMID: 26592108 DOI: 10.1021/ct3002305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- W. M. C. Sameera
- Institut Català d’Investigació
Química, Av. Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Max-Planck-Institut für
Bioanorganische Chemie, Stiftstrasse 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an
der Ruhr, Germany
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Schnupf U, Willett JL, Momany FA. 27 ps DFT molecular dynamics simulation of α-maltose: A reduced basis set study. J Comput Chem 2010; 31:2087-97. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.21495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Stortz CA, Johnson GP, French AD, Csonka GI. Comparison of different force fields for the study of disaccharides. Carbohydr Res 2009; 344:2217-28. [PMID: 19758584 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2009.08.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2009] [Revised: 08/13/2009] [Accepted: 08/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Eighteen empirical force fields and the semi-empirical quantum method PM3CARB-1 were compared for studying beta-cellobiose, alpha-maltose, and alpha-galabiose [alpha-D-Galp-(1-->4)-alpha-D-Galp]. For each disaccharide, the energies of 54 conformers with differing hydroxymethyl, hydroxyl, and glycosidic linkage orientations were minimized by the different methods, some at two dielectric constants. By comparing these results and the available crystal structure data and/or higher level density functional theory results, it was concluded that the newer parameterizations for force fields (GROMOS, GLYCAM06, OPLS-2005 and CSFF) give results that are reasonably similar to each other, whereas the older parameterizations for Amber, CHARMM or OPLS were more divergent. However, MM3, an older force field, gave energy and geometry values comparable to those of the newer parameterizations, but with less sensitivity to dielectric constant values. These systems worked better than MM2 variants, which were still acceptable. PM3CARB-1 also gave adequate results in terms of linkage and exocyclic torsion angles. GROMOS, GLYCAM06, and MM3 appear to be the best choices, closely followed by MM4, CSFF, and OPLS-2005. With GLYCAM06 and to a lesser extent, CSFF, and OPLS-2005, a number of the conformers that were stable with MM3 changed to other forms.
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- Carlos A Stortz
- Departamento de Química Orgánica-CIHIDECAR, FCEyN-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Bosma WB, Schnupf U, Willett J, Momany FA. Density functional study of the infrared spectrum of glucose and glucose monohydrates in the OH stretch region. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.theochem.2009.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Csonka GI, French AD, Johnson GP, Stortz CA. Evaluation of Density Functionals and Basis Sets for Carbohydrates. J Chem Theory Comput 2009; 5:679-92. [DOI: 10.1021/ct8004479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Gábor I. Csonka
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology, Szent Gellért tér 4, Budapest, H-1521 Hungary, Southern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, and Departamento de Química Orgánica-CIHIDECAR, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology, Szent Gellért tér 4, Budapest, H-1521 Hungary, Southern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, and Departamento de Química Orgánica-CIHIDECAR, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology, Szent Gellért tér 4, Budapest, H-1521 Hungary, Southern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, and Departamento de Química Orgánica-CIHIDECAR, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology, Szent Gellért tér 4, Budapest, H-1521 Hungary, Southern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1100 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70124, and Departamento de Química Orgánica-CIHIDECAR, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Schnupf U, Willett J, Momany FA. DFT conformation and energies of amylose fragments at atomic resolution. Part 2: ‘band-flip’ and ‘kink’ forms of α-maltotetraose. Carbohydr Res 2009; 344:374-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2008.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2008] [Revised: 11/06/2008] [Accepted: 11/19/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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DFT conformation and energies of amylose fragments at atomic resolution. Part 1: Syn forms of alpha-maltotetraose. Carbohydr Res 2008; 344:362-73. [PMID: 19111747 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2008.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2008] [Revised: 11/14/2008] [Accepted: 11/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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DFT optimization studies of 90 syn alpha-maltotetraose (DP-4) amylose fragments have been carried out at the B3LYP/6-311++G** level of theory. The DP-4 fragments studied include V-helix, tightly bent conformations, a boat, and a (1)C(4) conformer. The standard hydroxymethyl rotamers (gg, gt, tg) were examined at different locations in the residue sequence, and their influence on the bridge conformations phi/psi values and conformer energy is described. Hydroxyl groups were considered to be homodromic, that is, they are either in the all clockwise, 'c', or all counterclockwise, 'r'. Energy differences between conformations are examined in order to assess the stability of the different conformations and to identify the sources of energy that dictate amylose polymer formation. A small nearly cyclic compact structure is of low energy as one would expect when these flexible molecules are studied in vacuo. Many conformations in which the only differences are a single hydroxymethyl variation in the residue sequence show similar energies and bridge conformations, with trends being a result of the hydroxymethyl as well as hydroxyl orientation. In general the 'c' structures are of lower energy than the 'r' structures, although this is only true for the in vacuo state. The solvent dependence on conformational preference of several low-energy DP-4 structures was investigated via the continuum solvation method COSMO. These results suggest that the 'r' structures may be favored for fully solvated molecules.
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