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Adasme-Carreño F, Caballero J, Ireta J. PSIQUE: Protein Secondary Structure Identification on the Basis of Quaternions and Electronic Structure Calculations. J Chem Inf Model 2021; 61:1789-1800. [PMID: 33769809 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c01343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The secondary structure is important in protein structure analysis, classification, and modeling. We have developed a novel method for secondary structure assignment, termed PSIQUE, based on the potential energy surface (PES) of polyalanine obtained using an infinitely long chain model and density functional theory calculations. First, uniform protein segments are determined in terms of a difference of quaternions between neighboring amino acids along the protein backbone. Then, the identification of the secondary structure motifs is carried out based on the minima found in the PES. PSIQUE shows good agreement with other secondary structure assignment methods. However, it provides better discrimination of subtle secondary structures (e.g., helix types) and termini and produces more uniform segments while also accounting for local distortions. Overall, PSIQUE provides a precise and reliable assignment of secondary structures, so it should be helpful for the detailed characterization of the protein structure.
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- Francisco Adasme-Carreño
- Departamento de Bioinformática, Centro de Bioinformática, Simulación y Modelado (CBSM), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Talca, Campus Talca, 1 Poniente No. 1141, Casilla 721, Talca 3460000, Chile
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- Departamento de Bioinformática, Centro de Bioinformática, Simulación y Modelado (CBSM), Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Talca, Campus Talca, 1 Poniente No. 1141, Casilla 721, Talca 3460000, Chile
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- Departamento de Química, División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, A.P. 55-534, Ciudad de Mexico 09340, Mexico
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Warnke S, Hoffmann W, Seo J, De Genst E, von Helden G, Pagel K. From Compact to String-The Role of Secondary and Tertiary Structure in Charge-Induced Unzipping of Gas-Phase Proteins. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2017; 28:638-646. [PMID: 27921259 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1551-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2016] [Revised: 10/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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In the gas phase, protein ions can adopt a broad range of structures, which have been investigated extensively in the past using ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS)-based methods. Compact ions with low number of charges undergo a Coulomb-driven transition to partially folded species when the charge increases, and finally form extended structures with presumably little or no defined structure when the charge state is high. However, with respect to the secondary structure, IM-MS methods are essentially blind. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, on the other hand, is sensitive to such structural details and there is increasing evidence that helices as well as β-sheet-like structures can exist in the gas phase, especially for ions in low charge states. Very recently, we showed that also the fully extended form of highly charged protein ions can adopt a distinct type of secondary structure that features a characteristic C5-type hydrogen bond pattern. Here we use a combination of IM-MS and IR spectroscopy to further investigate the influence of the initial, native conformation on the formation of these structures. Our results indicate that when intramolecular Coulomb-repulsion is large enough to overcome the stabilization energies of the genuine secondary structure, all proteins, regardless of their sequence or native conformation, form C5-type hydrogen bond structures. Furthermore, our results suggest that in highly charged proteins the positioning of charges along the sequence is only marginally influenced by the basicity of individual residues. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Stephan Warnke
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
- Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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Rapid prediction of interaction energies for nucleoside-containing hydrogen-bonded complexes: Lone-pair dipole moment treatment for adenine, cytosine and guanine. Chem Res Chin Univ 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-017-6295-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zhou Y, Deng G, Zheng YZ, Xu J, Ashraf H, Yu ZW. Evidences for Cooperative Resonance-Assisted Hydrogen Bonds in Protein Secondary Structure Analogs. Sci Rep 2016; 6:36932. [PMID: 27849028 PMCID: PMC5111121 DOI: 10.1038/srep36932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Cooperative behaviors of the hydrogen bonding networks in proteins have been discovered for a long time. The structural origin of this cooperativity, however, is still under debate. Here we report a new investigation combining excess infrared spectroscopy and density functional theory calculation on peptide analogs, represented by N-methylformamide (NMF) and N-methylacetamide (NMA). Interestingly, addition of the strong hydrogen bond acceptor, dimethyl sulfoxide, to the pure analogs caused opposite effects, namely red- and blue-shift of the N−H stretching infrared absorption in NMF and NMA, respectively. The contradiction can be reconciled by the marked lowering of the energy levels of the self-associates between NMA molecules due to a cooperative effect of the hydrogen bonds. On the contrary, NMF molecules cannot form long-chain cooperative hydrogen bonds because they tend to form dimers. Even more interestingly, we found excellent linear relationships between changes on bond orders of N−H/N−C/C = O and the hydrogen bond energy gains upon the formation of hydrogen bonding multimers in NMA, suggesting strongly that the cooperativity originates from resonance-assisted hydrogen bonds. Our findings provide insights on the structures of proteins and may also shed lights on the rational design of novel molecular recognition systems.
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- Yu Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China
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Affiliation(s)
- John F. Ouyang
- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science
Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science
Drive 3, Singapore 117543
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Ireta J. Polyalanine α-helix microsolvation: assessing the energy of the peptide desolvation penalty with density functional theory. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-016-1981-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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González Flórez AI, Mucha E, Ahn DS, Gewinner S, Schöllkopf W, Pagel K, von Helden G. Charge-Induced Unzipping of Isolated Proteins to a Defined Secondary Structure. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016; 55:3295-9. [PMID: 26847383 PMCID: PMC4770441 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Here we present a combined experimental and theoretical study on the secondary structure of isolated proteins as a function of charge state. In infrared spectra of the proteins ubiquitin and cytochrome c, amide I (C=O stretch) and amide II (N-H bend) bands can be found at positions that are typical for condensed-phase proteins. For high charge states a new band appears, substantially red-shifted from the amide II band observed at lower charge states. The observations are interpreted in terms of Coulomb-driven transitions in secondary structures from mostly helical to extended C5 -type hydrogen-bonded structures. Support for this interpretation comes from simple energy considerations as well as from quantum chemical calculations on model peptides. This transition in secondary structure is most likely universal for isolated proteins that occur in mass spectrometric experiments.
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie der Freien Universität Berlin, Takustrasse 3, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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Li J, Wang Y, Chen J, Liu Z, Bax A, Yao L. Observation of α-Helical Hydrogen-Bond Cooperativity in an Intact Protein. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:1824-7. [PMID: 26853186 PMCID: PMC5575832 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The presence and extent of hydrogen-bonding (H-bonding) cooperativity in proteins remains a fundamental question, which in the past has been studied extensively, mostly by infrared and fluorescence measurements on model peptides. We demonstrate that such cooperativity can be studied in an intact protein by hydrogen/deuterium exchange NMR spectroscopy. The method is based on the fact that substitution of NH by ND in a backbone amide group slightly weakens the N-H···O═C hydrogen bond. Our results show that such substitution at position i in an α-helix impacts the (1)H and (15)N chemical shifts of the amide sites of residues i - 3 to i + 3. Quantum mechanical calculations indicate that the upfield shifts of (1)H and (15)N resonances at site i, observed upon H/D exchanges at sites i - 3, i + 1, i + 2, and i + 3, correspond to a decrease of the ith backbone amide electric dipole moment, which weakens its H-bonding and long-range electrostatic interactions with other backbone amides in the α-helix. These results provide new quantitative insights into the cooperativity of H-bonding in protein α-helices.
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- Jingwen Li
- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266061, China
- Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266061, China
- Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266061, China
- Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266061, China
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- National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201210, China
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- Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0520
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- Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Qingdao, 266061, China
- Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266061, China
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González Flórez AI, Mucha E, Ahn DS, Gewinner S, Schöllkopf W, Pagel K, von Helden G. Ladungsinduziertes Entwinden isolierter Proteine zu einer definierten Sekundärstruktur. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201510983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Faradayweg 4-6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Faradayweg 4-6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Faradayweg 4-6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Faradayweg 4-6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Faradayweg 4-6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie der Freien Universität Berlin; Takustraße 3 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; Faradayweg 4-6 14195 Berlin Deutschland
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Affiliation(s)
- A. Subha Mahadevi
- Centre for Molecular Modelling, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, India 500607
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- Centre for Molecular Modelling, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, India 500607
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Zhang L, Li W, Fang T, Li S. Ab initio molecular dynamics with intramolecular noncovalent interactions for unsolvated polypeptides. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-015-1799-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Goyal B, Srivastava KR, Kumar A, Patwari GN, Durani S. Probing the role of electrostatics of polypeptide main-chain in protein folding by perturbing N-terminal residue stereochemistry: DFT study with oligoalanine models. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra22870d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Energetics of folding (ΔHE→F, in kcal mol−1) from the extended (E) structure to the folded (F) structure for Ia and Ib critically depend on the geometrical relationship between the backbone peptide units of the polypeptide structure.
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- Bhupesh Goyal
- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Mumbai-400076
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Mumbai-400076
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Mumbai-400076
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Mumbai-400076
- India
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Lee J, Jang G, Kang P, Choi MG, Choi SH. Helical α/β-depsipeptides with alternating residue types: conformational change from the 11-helix to the 14/15-helix. Org Biomol Chem 2016; 14:8438-42. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ob01602b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Short α/β-depsipeptides of which the third residue from the N-terminus is an (S)-lactic acid residue predominantly adopt 14/15-helical conformations analogous to the α-helix.
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- Jaeyeon Lee
- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul
- Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry
- Yonsei University
- Seoul
- Republic of Korea
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Li S, Li W, Ma J. Generalized energy-based fragmentation approach and its applications to macromolecules and molecular aggregates. Acc Chem Res 2014; 47:2712-20. [PMID: 24873495 DOI: 10.1021/ar500038z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Conspectus The generalized energy-based fragmentation (GEBF) approach provides a very simple way of approximately evaluating the ground-state energy or properties of a large system in terms of ground-state energies of various small "electrostatically embedded" subsystems, which can be calculated with any traditional ab initio quantum chemistry (X) method (X = Hartree-Fock, density functional theory, and so on). Due to its excellent parallel efficiency, the GEBF approach at the X theory level (GEBF-X) allows full quantum mechanical (QM) calculations to be accessible for systems with hundreds and even thousands of atoms on ordinary workstations. The implementation of the GEBF approach at various theoretical levels can be easily done with existing quantum chemistry programs. This Account reviews the methodology, implementation, and applications of the GEBF-X approach. This method has been successfully applied to optimize the structures of various large systems including molecular clusters, polypeptides, proteins, and foldamers. Such investigations could allow us to elucidate the origin and nature of the cooperative interaction in secondary structures of long peptides or the driving force of the self-assembly processes of aromatic oligoamides. These GEBF-based QM calculations reveal that the structures and stability of various complex systems result from a subtle balance of many types of noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding and van der Waals interactions. The GEBF-based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) method also allows the investigation of dynamic behaviors of large systems on the order of tens of picoseconds. It was demonstrated that the conformational dynamics of two model peptides predicted by GEBF-based AIMD are noticeably different from those predicted by the classical force field MD method. With the target of extending QM calculations to molecular aggregates in the condensed phase, we have implemented the GEBF-based multilayer hybrid models, which could provide satisfactory descriptions of the binding energies between a solute molecule and its surrounding waters and the chain-length dependence of the conformational changes of oligomers in aqueous solutions. A coarse-grained polarizable molecular mechanics model, furnished with GEBF-X dipole moments of subsystems, exhibits some advantages of treating the electrostatic polarization with reduced computational costs. We anticipate that the GEBF approach will continue to develop with the ultimate goal of studying complicated phenomena at mesoscopic scales and serve as a practical tool to elucidate the structure and dynamics of chemical and biological systems.
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- Shuhua Li
- School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE, Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People’s Republic of China
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Wang K, Li W, Li S. Generalized Energy-Based Fragmentation CCSD(T)-F12a Method and Application to the Relative Energies of Water Clusters (H2O)20. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:1546-53. [DOI: 10.1021/ct401060m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Kedong Wang
- School
of Physics and Electronical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, People’s Repubic of China
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Rossi M, Chutia S, Scheffler M, Blum V. Validation Challenge of Density-Functional Theory for Peptides—Example of Ac-Phe-Ala5-LysH+. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:7349-59. [DOI: 10.1021/jp412055r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Mariana Rossi
- Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, D-14195 Germany
- Physical
and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, OX1 3QZ Oxford, U.K
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, D-14195 Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, D-14195 Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, D-14195 Germany
- Department
of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Center for Materials
Genomics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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Structural preferences of two unnatural hybrid octapeptides with and without the crystal environment: a computational study. Theor Chem Acc 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-013-1444-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Li SS, Huang CY, Hao JJ, Wang CS. A polarizable dipole-dipole interaction model for evaluation of the interaction energies for NH···OC and CH···OC hydrogen-bonded complexes. J Comput Chem 2013; 35:415-26. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2013] [Revised: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/03/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- Shu-Shi Li
- Department of Chemistry; Liaoning Normal University; Dalian 116029 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry; Liaoning Normal University; Dalian 116029 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry; Liaoning Normal University; Dalian 116029 People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry; Liaoning Normal University; Dalian 116029 People's Republic of China
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Fadda E, Woods RJ. Contribution of the empirical dispersion correction on the conformation of short alanine peptides obtained by gas-phase QM calculations. CAN J CHEM 2013; 91:859-865. [PMID: 25418993 PMCID: PMC4239032 DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2012-0542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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In this work we analyze the effect of the inclusion of an empirical dispersion term to standard DFT (DFT-D) in the prediction of the conformational energy of the alanine dipeptide (Ala2) and in assessing the relative stabilities of short polyala-nine peptides in helical conformations, i.e., α and 310 helices, from Ala4 to Ala16. The Ala2 conformational energies obtained with the dispersion-corrected GGA functional B97-D are compared to previously published high level MP2 data. Meanwhile, the B97-D performance on larger polyalanine peptides is compared to MP2, B3LYP and RHF calculations obtained at a lower level of theory. Our results show that electron correlation affects the conformational energies of short peptides with a weight that increases with the peptide length. Indeed, while the contribution of vdW forces is significant for larger peptides, in the case of Ala2 it is negligible when compared to solvent effects. Even for short peptides, the inclusion of an empirical dispersion term greatly improves accuracy of DFT methods, providing results that correlate very well with the MP2 reference at no additional computational cost.
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- Elisa Fadda
- School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
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- School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland; Complex Carbohydrate Research Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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Lanza G, Chiacchio MA. Comprehensive and Accurate Ab Initio Energy Surface of Simple Alanine Peptides. Chemphyschem 2013; 14:3284-93. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201300445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2013] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Giuseppe Lanza
- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania (Italy)
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- Dipartimento di Scienze del Farmaco, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania (Italy)
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Rossi M, Scheffler M, Blum V. Impact of Vibrational Entropy on the Stability of Unsolvated Peptide Helices with Increasing Length. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:5574-84. [DOI: 10.1021/jp402087e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Mariana Rossi
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Steinmann C, Fedorov DG, Jensen JH. Mapping enzymatic catalysis using the effective fragment molecular orbital method: towards all ab initio biochemistry. PLoS One 2013; 8:e60602. [PMID: 23593259 PMCID: PMC3625203 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2012] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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We extend the Effective Fragment Molecular Orbital (EFMO) method to the frozen domain approach where only the geometry of an active part is optimized, while the many-body polarization effects are considered for the whole system. The new approach efficiently mapped out the entire reaction path of chorismate mutase in less than four days using 80 cores on 20 nodes, where the whole system containing 2398 atoms is treated in the ab initio fashion without using any force fields. The reaction path is constructed automatically with the only assumption of defining the reaction coordinate a priori. We determine the reaction barrier of chorismate mutase to be kcal mol−1 for MP2/cc-pVDZ and for MP2/cc-pVTZ in an ONIOM approach using EFMO-RHF/6-31G(d) for the high and low layers, respectively.
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- Casper Steinmann
- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Nanosystems Research Institute (NRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Isegawa M, Wang B, Truhlar DG. Electrostatically Embedded Molecular Tailoring Approach and Validation for Peptides. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:1381-93. [DOI: 10.1021/ct300845q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Miho Isegawa
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and
Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
55455-0431, United States
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Hua S, Li W, Li S. The Generalized Energy-Based Fragmentation Approach with an Improved Fragmentation Scheme: Benchmark Results and Illustrative Applications. Chemphyschem 2012; 14:108-15. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201200867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Marianski M, Asensio A, Dannenberg JJ. Comparison of some dispersion-corrected and traditional functionals as applied to peptides and conformations of cyclohexane derivatives. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:044109. [PMID: 22852599 DOI: 10.1063/1.4737517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We compare the energetic and structural properties of fully optimized α-helical and antiparallel β-sheet polyalanines and the energetic differences between axial and equatorial conformations of three cyclohexane derivatives (methyl, fluoro, and chloro) as calculated using several functionals designed to treat dispersion (B97-D, ωB97x-D, M06, M06L, and M06-2X) with other traditional functionals not specifically parametrized to treat dispersion (B3LYP, X3LYP, and PBE1PBE) and with experimental results. Those functionals developed to treat dispersion significantly overestimate interaction enthalpies of folding for the α-helix and predict unreasonable structures that contain Ramachandran φ and ψ and C = O...N H-bonding angles that are out of the bounds of databases compiled the β-sheets. These structures are consistent with overestimation of the interaction energies. For the cyclohexanes, these functionals overestimate the stabilities of the axial conformation, especially when used with smaller basis sets. Their performance improves when the basis set is improved from D95∗∗ to aug-cc-pVTZ (which would not be possible with systems as large as the peptides).
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- Mateusz Marianski
- Department of Chemistry, City University of New York - Hunter College and the Graduate School, 695 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10065, USA
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Lupan A, Kun AZ, Carrascoza F, Silaghi-Dumitrescu R. Performance comparison of computational methods for modeling alpha-helical structures. J Mol Model 2012; 19:193-203. [PMID: 22846926 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-012-1531-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2012] [Accepted: 07/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Geometry optimization results are reported for secondary structural elements of small proteins and polypeptides. Emphasis is placed on how well molecular mechanics as well as semiempirical, ab initio, and density functional methods describe α-helical and related structures in purely theoretical models (Gly10, Ile10) as well as in realistic models (an α-helical region of calmodulin, and the complete structure of a small protein). Many of the methods examined here were found to provide unsatisfactory descriptions of the hydrogen-bonding interactions within polypeptide-type structures, as the α-helical canonical secondary structure motif was not reproduced accurately. Ab initio and DFT methods provided reasonable results only when solvation models were included, although Hartree-Fock failed even with solvation in one of the test cases; among the semiempirical methods, one of the PM6 implementations performed very well.
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- Alexandru Lupan
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, 11 Arany Janos str, Cluj-Napoca, 400028, Romania
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Assessment of density functionals on intramolecular dispersion interaction in large normal alkanes. Chem Phys Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2012.05.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [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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Meliá C, Ferrer S, Moliner V, Tuñón I, Bertrán J. Computational study on hydrolysis of cefotaxime in gas phase and in aqueous solution. J Comput Chem 2012; 33:1948-59. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2011] [Revised: 04/10/2012] [Accepted: 04/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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