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Tureček F. Covalent crosslinking in gas-phase biomolecular ions. An account and perspective. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:32292-32304. [PMID: 37990588 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04879a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Photochemical crosslinking in gas-phase ion complexes has been introduced as a method to study biomolecular structures and dynamics. Emphasis has been on carbene-based crosslinking induced by photodissociation of diazirine-tagged ions. The features that characterize gas-phase crosslinking include (1) complex formation in electrospray droplets that allows for library-type screening; (2) well defined stoichiometry of the complexes due to mass-selective isolation; (3) facile reaction monitoring and yield determination, and (4) post-crosslinking structure analysis by tandem mass spectrometry that has been combined with hydrogen-deuterium exchange, UV-vis action spectroscopy, and ion mobility measurements. In this account, examples are given of peptide-peptide, peptide-nucleotide, and peptide-ligand crosslinking that chiefly used carbene-based reactions. The pros and cons of gas-phase crosslinking are discussed. Nitrile-imine based crosslinking in gas-phase ions is introduced as a promising new approach to ion structure analysis that offers high efficiency and has the potential for wide ranging applications.
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Affiliation(s)
- František Tureček
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, WA 98195-1700, USA.
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Zhu H, Zima V, Ding ER, Tureček F. Carbene Cross-Linking in Gas-Phase Peptide Ion Scaffolds. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2023; 34:763-774. [PMID: 36881876 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Scaffolds consisting of a peptide, a phthalate linker, and a 4,4-azipentyl group were synthesized and used to study intramolecular peptide-carbene cross-linking in gas-phase cations. Carbene intermediates were generated by UV-laser photodissociation at 355 nm of the diazirine ring in mass-selected ions, and the cross-linked products were detected and quantified by collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry (CID-MSn, n = 3-5). Peptide scaffolds containing Ala and Leu residues with a C-terminal Gly gave 21-26% yields of cross-linked products, while the presence of the Pro and His residues decreased the yields. Experiments using hydrogen-deuterium-hydrogen exchange, carboxyl group blocking, and analysis of CID-MSn spectra of reference synthetic products revealed that a significant fraction of cross-links involved the Gly amide and carboxyl groups. Interpretation of the cross-linking results was aided by Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) and density functional theory calculations that allowed us to establish the protonation sites and conformations of the precursor ions. Analysis of long (100 ps) BOMD trajectories was used to count close contacts between the incipient carbene and peptide atoms, and the counting statistics was correlated with the results of gas-phase cross-linking.
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- Hongyi Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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Abedini N, Kassaee MZ. The effects of halogen substituents on structure, stability, and electronic properties of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanylene at density functional theory. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.4304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Al Omari RH, Almatarneh MH, Alnajajrah AY, Al-Sheraideh MS, Al Abbad SS, Alsunaidi ZHA. Thermal Degradation and Bimolecular Decomposition of 2-Ethoxyethanol in Binary Ethanol and Isobutanol Solvent Mixtures: A Computational Mechanistic Study. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:13365-13374. [PMID: 34056483 PMCID: PMC8158800 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c01318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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A thorough computational study of a thermal degradation mechanism of 2-ethoxyethanol (2-EE) in the gas phase has been implemented using G3MP2 and G3B3 methods. The stationary point geometries were optimized at the B3LYP functional utilizing the 6-31G(d) basis set. Intrinsic reaction coordinate analysis was performed to determine the transition states on the potential energy surfaces. Nineteen primary different reaction mechanisms, along with the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters, are demonstrated. Most of the thermal degradation mechanisms result in a concerted transition state step as an endothermic process. Among 11 degradation pathways of 2-ethoxyethanol, the formation of ethylene glycol and ethylene is kinetically significant with an activation energy of 269 kJ mol-1 at the G3B3 method. However, the kinetic and thermodynamic calculations indicate that ethanol and ethanal's formation is the most plausible reaction with an activation barrier of 287 kJ mol-1 at the G3B3 method. For the bimolecular dissociation reaction of 2-ethoxyethanol with ethanol, the pathway that produces ether, H2, and ethanol is more likely to occur with a lower activation energy of 221 kJ mol-1 at the G3B3 method. Thus, 2-EE has experienced a set of complex unimolecular and bimolecular reactions.
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- Rima H. Al Omari
- Pharmacological
and Diagnostic Research Centre (PDRC), Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Amman 19328, Jordan
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan
- Department
of Chemistry, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X7, Canada
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Science, Imam Abdulrahman
Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Science, Imam Abdulrahman
Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Science, Imam Abdulrahman
Bin Faisal University, Dammam 31441, Saudi Arabia
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Liu Y, Liu Y, Nytka M, Huang SR, Lemr K, Tureček F. Probing d- and l-Adrenaline Binding to β 2-Adrenoreceptor Peptide Motifs by Gas-Phase Photodissociation Cross-Linking and Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2021; 32:1041-1052. [PMID: 33655750 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.1c00019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Diazirine-tagged d- and l-adrenaline derivatives formed abundant noncovalent gas-phase ion complexes with peptides N-Ac-SSIVSFY-NH2 (peptide S) and N-Ac-VYILLNWIGY-NH2 (peptide V) upon electrospray ionization. These peptide sequences represent the binding motifs in the β2-adrenoreceptor. The structures of the gas-phase complexes were investigated by selective laser photodissociation of the diazirine chromophore at 354 nm, which resulted in a loss of N2 and formation of a transient carbene intermediate in the adrenaline ligand without causing its expulsion. The photolyzed complexes were analyzed by collision-induced dissociation (CID-MS3 and CID-MS4) in an attempt to detect cross-links and establish the binding sites. However, no cross-linking was detected in the complexes regardless of the peptide and d- or l-configuration in adrenaline. Cyclic ion mobility measurements were used to obtain collision cross sections (CCS) in N2 for the peptide S complexes. These showed identical values, 334 ± 0.9 Å2, for complexes of the l- and d-adrenaline derivatives, respectively. Identical CCS were also obtained for peptide S complexes with natural l- and d-adrenaline, 317 ± 1.2 Å2, respectively. Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) in combination with full geometry optimization by density functional theory calculations provided structures for the complexes that were used to calculate theoretical CCS with the ion trajectory method. A close match (337 Å2) was found for a single low Gibbs energy structure that displayed a binding pocket with Ser 2 and Ser 5 residues forming hydrogen bonds to the adrenaline catechol hydroxyls. Analysis of the BOMD trajectories revealed a small number of contacts between the incipient carbene carbon atom in the ligand and X-H bonds in the peptide, which was consistent with the lack of cross-linking. Temperature dependence of the internal dynamics of peptide S-adrenaline complexes as well as the specifics of the adrenaline carbene reactions are discussed. In particular, peptide amide hydrogen transfer to the carbene carbon atom was calculated to require crossing a potential energy barrier, which may hamper cross-linking in competition with carbene internal rearrangements.
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- Yang Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 1192/12, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 1192/12, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, United States
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A quest for stable bicyclic carbenes with one, two, and three carbenic centers at theoretical level. Struct Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-020-01715-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Abedini N, Kassaee MZ, Cummings PT. Effects of nitrogen atoms on the stability and reactivity of tricyclic boracarbenes by DFT. Theor Chem Acc 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-020-02659-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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