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Strunge K, Madzharova F, Jensen F, Weidner T, Nagata Y. Theoretical Sum Frequency Generation Spectra of Protein Amide with Surface-Specific Velocity-Velocity Correlation Functions. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:8571-8578. [PMID: 36194760 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c04321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Abstract
Vibrational sum frequency generation (vSFG) spectroscopy is widely used to probe the protein structure at interfaces. Because protein vSFG spectra are complex, they can only provide detailed structural information if combined with computer simulations of protein molecular dynamics and spectra calculations. We show how vSFG spectra can be accurately modeled using a surface-specific velocity-velocity scheme based on ab initio normal modes. Our calculated vSFG spectra show excellent agreement with the experimental sum frequency spectrum of LTα14 peptide and provide insight into the origin of the characteristic α-helical amide I peak. Analysis indicates that the peak shape can be explained largely by two effects: (1) the uncoupled response of amide groups located on opposite sides of the α-helix will have different orientations with respect to the interface and therefore different local environments affecting the local mode vibrations and (2) vibrational splitting from nearest neighbor coupling evaluated as inter-residue vibrational correlation. The conclusion is consistent with frequency mapping techniques with an empirically based ensemble of peptide structures, thus showing how time correlation approaches and frequency mapping techniques can give independent yet complementary molecular descriptions of protein vSFG. These models reveal the sensitive relationship between protein structure and their amide I response, allowing exploitation of the complicated molecular vibrations and their interference to derive the structures of proteins under native conditions at interfaces.
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- Kris Strunge
- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Schmüser L, Trefz M, Roeters SJ, Beckner W, Pfaendtner J, Otzen D, Woutersen S, Bonn M, Schneider D, Weidner T. Membrane Structure of Aquaporin Observed with Combined Experimental and Theoretical Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2021; 37:13452-13459. [PMID: 34729987 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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High-resolution structural information on membrane proteins is essential for understanding cell biology and for the structure-based design of new medical drugs and drug delivery strategies. X-ray diffraction (XRD) can provide angstrom-level information about the structure of membrane proteins, yet for XRD experiments, proteins are removed from their native membrane environment, chemically stabilized, and crystallized, all of which can compromise the conformation. Here, we describe how a combination of surface-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations can account for the native membrane environment. We observe the structure of a glycerol facilitator channel (GlpF), an aquaporin membrane channel finely tuned to selectively transport water and glycerol molecules across the membrane barrier. We find subtle but significant differences between the XRD structure and the inferred in situ structure of GlpF.
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- L Schmüser
- Department of Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry-Biochemistry, University of Mainz, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 30, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 105 Benson Hall, Seattle, Washington 98195-1750, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 105 Benson Hall, Seattle, Washington 98195-1750, United States
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- iNANO, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Molecular Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry-Biochemistry, University of Mainz, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 30, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 105 Benson Hall, Seattle, Washington 98195-1750, United States
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Hosseinpour S, Roeters SJ, Bonn M, Peukert W, Woutersen S, Weidner T. Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Peptides and Proteins from Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. Chem Rev 2020; 120:3420-3465. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Saman Hosseinpour
- Institute of Particle Technology (LFG), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Department, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Particle Technology (LFG), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, 1098 EP Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Cheung DL. The air-water interface stabilizes α-helical conformations of the insulin B-chain. J Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5100253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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- David L. Cheung
- School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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