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Friedman R. Estimating the Gibbs Hydration Energies of Actinium and Trans-Plutonium Actinides. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202200516. [PMID: 36149643 PMCID: PMC10100388 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2022] [Revised: 09/23/2022] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
The use of actinides for medical, scientific and technological purposes has gained momentum in the recent years. This creates a need to understand their interactions with biomolecules, both at the interface and as they become complexed. Calculation of the Gibbs binding energies of the ions to biomolecules, i. e., the Gibbs energy change associated with a transfer of an ion from the water phase to its binding site, could help to understand the actinides' toxicities and to design agents that bind them with high affinities. To this end, there is a need to obtain accurate reference values for actinide hydration, that for most actinides are not available from experiment. In this study, a set of ionic radii is developed that enables future calculations of binding energies for Pu3+ and five actinides with renewed scientific and technological interest: Ac3+ , Am3+ , Cm3+ , Bk3+ and Cf3+ . Reference hydration energies were calculated using quantum chemistry and ion solvation theory and agree well for all ions except Ac3+ , where ion solvation theory seems to underestimate the magnitude of the Gibbs hydration energy. The set of radii and reference energies that are presented here provide means to calculate binding energies for actinides and biomolecules.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ran Friedman
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, SE-391 82, Sweden
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Law KP, He W, Tao J, Zhang C. A Novel Approach to Characterize the Lipidome of Marine Archaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:735878. [PMID: 34925256 PMCID: PMC8674956 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.735878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Archaea are differentiated from the other two domains of life by their biomolecular characteristics. One such characteristic is the unique structure and composition of their lipids. Characterization of the whole set of lipids in a biological system (the lipidome) remains technologically challenging. This is because the lipidome is innately complex, and not all lipid species are extractable, separable, or ionizable by a single analytical method. Furthermore, lipids are structurally and chemically diverse. Many lipids are isobaric or isomeric and often indistinguishable by the measurement of mass or even their fragmentation spectra. Here we developed a novel analytical protocol based on liquid chromatography ion mobility mass spectrometry to enhance the coverage of the lipidome and characterize the conformations of archaeal lipids by their collision cross-sections (CCSs). The measurements of ion mobility revealed the gas-phase ion chemistry of representative archaeal lipids and provided further insights into their attributions to the adaptability of archaea to environmental stresses. A comprehensive characterization of the lipidome of mesophilic marine thaumarchaeon, Nitrosopumilus maritimus (strain SCM1) revealed potentially an unreported phosphate- and sulfate-containing lipid candidate by negative ionization analysis. It was the first time that experimentally derived CCS values of archaeal lipids were reported. Discrimination of crenarchaeol and its proposed stereoisomer was, however, not achieved with the resolving power of the SYNAPT G2 ion mobility system, and a high-resolution ion mobility system may be required for future work. Structural and spectral libraries of archaeal lipids were constructed in non-vendor-specific formats and are being made available to the community to promote research of Archaea by lipidomics.
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- Kai P Law
- Southern University of Science and Technology, SUSTech Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Shenzhen, China.,Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Archaea Geo-Omics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.,Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
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Friedman R, Khalid S, Aponte-Santamaría C, Arutyunova E, Becker M, Boyd KJ, Christensen M, Coimbra JTS, Concilio S, Daday C, van Eerden FJ, Fernandes PA, Gräter F, Hakobyan D, Heuer A, Karathanou K, Keller F, Lemieux MJ, Marrink SJ, May ER, Mazumdar A, Naftalin R, Pickholz M, Piotto S, Pohl P, Quinn P, Ramos MJ, Schiøtt B, Sengupta D, Sessa L, Vanni S, Zeppelin T, Zoni V, Bondar AN, Domene C. Understanding Conformational Dynamics of Complex Lipid Mixtures Relevant to Biology. J Membr Biol 2018; 251:609-631. [PMID: 30350011 PMCID: PMC6244758 DOI: 10.1007/s00232-018-0050-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ran Friedman
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences and Centre of Excellence "Biomaterials Chemistry", Linnæus University, Kalmar, Sweden.
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- University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biophysics, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.,Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Interdisciplinary Nanoscience center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research, Beijing, China
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy
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- Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.,Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- GBB Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Physiology and Vascular Biology Departments, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, IFIBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy
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- Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
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- Biochemistry Department, King's College London, London, UK
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- UCIBIO, REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Interdisciplinary Nanoscience center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Physical Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Salerno, Fisciano, SA, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Theoretical Molecular Biophysics Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.,Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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Ahlstrand E, Zukerman Schpector J, Friedman R. Computer simulations of alkali-acetate solutions: Accuracy of the forcefields in difference concentrations. J Chem Phys 2018; 147:194102. [PMID: 29166095 DOI: 10.1063/1.4985919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
When proteins are solvated in electrolyte solutions that contain alkali ions, the ions interact mostly with carboxylates on the protein surface. Correctly accounting for alkali-carboxylate interactions is thus important for realistic simulations of proteins. Acetates are the simplest carboxylates that are amphipathic, and experimental data for alkali acetate solutions are available and can be compared with observables obtained from simulations. We carried out molecular dynamics simulations of alkali acetate solutions using polarizable and non-polarizable forcefields and examined the ion-acetate interactions. In particular, activity coefficients and association constants were studied in a range of concentrations (0.03, 0.1, and 1M). In addition, quantum-mechanics (QM) based energy decomposition analysis was performed in order to estimate the contribution of polarization, electrostatics, dispersion, and QM (non-classical) effects on the cation-acetate and cation-water interactions. Simulations of Li-acetate solutions in general overestimated the binding of Li+ and acetates. In lower concentrations, the activity coefficients of alkali-acetate solutions were too high, which is suggested to be due to the simulation protocol and not the forcefields. Energy decomposition analysis suggested that improvement of the forcefield parameters to enable accurate simulations of Li-acetate solutions can be achieved but may require the use of a polarizable forcefield. Importantly, simulations with some ion parameters could not reproduce the correct ion-oxygen distances, which calls for caution in the choice of ion parameters when protein simulations are performed in electrolyte solutions.
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- Emma Ahlstrand
- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnæus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden
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- Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Química, CP 676, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnæus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden
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