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Pinillos P, Camiruaga A, Torres-Hernández F, Çarçabal P, Usabiaga I, Fernández JA, Martínez R. Aspartame and Its Microhydrated Aggregates Revealed by Laser Spectroscopy: Water-Sweetener Interactions in the Gas Phase. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:6714-6721. [PMID: 39091218 PMCID: PMC11331506 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c04315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2024] [Revised: 07/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024]
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The popular sweetener, aspartame, is an agonist of the tongue's sweet taste receptor. How water molecules affect its conformation or which aspartame atoms are more prone to interact with solvent are helpful questions to understand its activity in different environments. Here, the combination of IR-UV spectroscopic techniques with computational simulations has been successfully applied to characterize aspartame·water0-2 clusters, showing that the addition of water molecules simplifies the conformational panorama of aspartame, favoring the formation of folded structures by interaction with the polar part of the molecule.
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- Paul Pinillos
- Department
of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), B° Sarriena S/N, Leioa 48940, Spain
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- Institut
des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, Orsay 91405, France
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), B° Sarriena S/N, Leioa 48940, Spain
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- Institut
des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay (ISMO), Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, Orsay 91405, France
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), B° Sarriena S/N, Leioa 48940, Spain
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), B° Sarriena S/N, Leioa 48940, Spain
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of La Rioja, Madre de Dios 53, Logroño 26006, Spain
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Samrout OE, Berlier G, Lambert JF. Amino Acid Polymerization on Silica Surfaces. Chempluschem 2024; 89:e202300642. [PMID: 38226922 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202300642] [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: 11/11/2023] [Revised: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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The polymerization of unactivated amino acids (AAs) is an important topic because of its applications in various fields including industrial medicinal chemistry and prebiotic chemistry. Silica as a promoter for this reaction, is of great interest owing to its large abundance and low cost. The amide/peptide bond synthesis on silica has been largely demonstrated but suffers from a lack of knowledge regarding its reaction mechanism, the key parameters, and surface features that influence AA adsorption and reactivity, the selectivity of the reaction product, the role of water in the reaction, etc. The present review addresses these problems by summarizing experimental and modeling results from the literature and attempts to rationalize some apparent divergences in published results. After briefly presenting the main types of silica surface sites and other relevant macroscopic features, we discuss the different deposition procedures of AAs, whose importance is often neglected. We address the possible AA adsorption mechanisms including covalent grafting and H-bonding and show that they are highly dependent on silanol types and density. We then consider how the adsorption mechanisms determine the occurrence and outcome of AA condensation (formation of cyclic dimers or of long linear chains), and outline some recent results that suggest significant polymerization selectivity in systems containing several AAs, as well as the formation of specific elements of secondary structure in the growing polypeptide chains.
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- Ola El Samrout
- Department of Chemistry, University of Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Torino, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125, Torino, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, LRS, Sorbonne Université Place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France
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Tripathi R, Durán Caballero L, Pérez de Tudela R, Hölzl C, Marx D. Unveiling Zwitterionization of Glycine in the Microhydration Limit. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:12676-12683. [PMID: 34056419 PMCID: PMC8154221 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Charge separation under solvation stress conditions is a fundamental process that comes in many forms in doped water clusters. Yet, the mechanism of intramolecular charge separation, where constraints due to the molecular structure might be intricately tied to restricted solvation structures, remains largely unexplored. Microhydrated amino acids are such paradigmatic molecules. Ab initio simulations are carried out at 300 K in the frameworks of metadynamics sampling and thermodynamic integration to map the thermal mechanisms of zwitterionization using Gly(H2O) n with n = 4 and 10. In both cases, a similar water-mediated proton transfer chain mechanism is observed; yet, detailed analyses of thermodynamics and kinetics demonstrate that the charge-separated zwitterion is the preferred species only for n = 10 mainly due to kinetic stabilization. Structural analyses disclose that bifurcated H-bonded water bridges, connecting the cationic and anionic sites in the fluctuating microhydration network at room temperature, are enhanced in the transition-state ensemble exclusively for n = 10 and become overwhelmingly abundant in the stable zwitterion. The findings offer potential insights into charge separation under solvation stress conditions beyond the present example.
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An ab iniio study on the micro-solvation of amino acids: On the number of water molecules necessary to stabilize the zwitter ion. Chem Phys Lett 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2018.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ghosh MK, Choi TH, Choi CH. Conformers of Zwitterionic Glycine in Aqueous Phase. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/bkcs.11372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Manik Kumer Ghosh
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences; Materials & Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick; Limerick Ireland
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15260 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Green-Nano Materials Research Center, College of Natural Sciences; Kyungpook National University; Daegu 702-701 South Korea
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Hydrogen bond complexation between glycine and THF and between glycine and water involving four lowest-energy glycine conformers have been studied. The complexes have been investigated in the gas phase at the ab initio molecular orbital theory (MP2) with aug-cc-pVDZ basis set and density functional theory (B3LYP) with aug-cc-pVTZ basis set. Bader’s theory of atoms in molecules (AIM), natural bond orbital (NBO), and symmetry adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) analyses are employed to elucidate the interaction characteristics in the complexes. The premise that the hydrogen bond donor ability of the O–H group of the carboxyl group dominates the interaction between glycine and THF and between glycine and water is confirmed. It is found that in comparison with water, THF binds more strongly to glycine. The quantum studies indicate that contribution of N–H···O and C–H···O hydrogen bonds in the complexes, although lower in magnitude to O–H···O interactions, play an important role in the stability of complexes. The blue and red shifts in the stretching frequencies of the hydrogen bond donors X–H (X = O, C, N) have also been related to stabilization energies. Decomposition of the stabilization energy based on the SAPT method clearly indicates the dominant role of the electrostatic interactions in all the complexes under study; however, induction and dispersion interaction terms are relatively higher in glycine–THF complexes.
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- Damanjit Kaur
- Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
- Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
- Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
- Department of Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India
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Iron(III) Oxide Nanoparticles as Catalysts for the Formation of Linear Glycine Peptides. Eur J Inorg Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201601296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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An automated and efficient conformational search of glycine and a glycine-water heterodimer both in vacuum and in aqueous solution. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.11.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pathak AK. Stabilizing the zwitter-ionic form of amino acids in the gas phase: An ab initio study on the minimum number of solvents and ions. Chem Phys Lett 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2014.07.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Vöhringer-Martinez E, Toro-Labbé A. The mean reaction force: A method to study the influence of the environment on reaction mechanisms. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:064505. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3624388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Kim CK, Park BH, Lee HW, Kim CK. Comprehensive Studies on the Free Energies of Solvation and Conformers of Glycine: A Theoretical Study. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2011. [DOI: 10.5012/bkcs.2011.32.6.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Yoshikawa T, Motegi H, Kakizaki A, Takayanagi T, Shiga M, Tachikawa M. Path-integral molecular dynamics simulations of glycine·(H2O)n (n=1–7) clusters on semi-empirical PM6 potential energy surfaces. Chem Phys 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2009.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Yang ZW, Wu XM, Zhou LJ, Yang G. A proline-based neuraminidase inhibitor: DFT studies on the zwitterion conformation, stability and formation. Int J Mol Sci 2009; 10:3918-3930. [PMID: 19865525 PMCID: PMC2769147 DOI: 10.3390/ijms10093918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2009] [Accepted: 09/02/2009] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The designs of potent neuraminidase (NA) inhibitors are an efficient way to deal with the recent "2009 H1N1" influenza epidemic. In this work, density functional calculations were employed to study the conformation, stability and formation of the zwitterions of 5-[(1R,2S)-1-(acetylamino)-2-methoxy-2-methylpentyl]-4-[(1Z)-1-propenyl]-(4S,5R)-d-proline (BL), a proline-based NA inhibitor. Compared to proline, the zwitterion stability of BL is enhanced by 1.76 kcal mol(-1) due to the introduction of functional groups. However, the zwitterion of BL will not represent a local minimum on the potential energy surface until the number of water molecules increases up to two (n = 2). With the addition of two and three water molecules, the energy differences between the zwitterions and corresponding canonical isomers were calculated at 3.13 and -1.54 kcal mol(-1), respectively. The zwitterions of BL are mainly stabilized by the H-bonds with the water molecules, especially in the case of three water molecules where the carboxyl-O atoms are largely coordination-saturated by three H-bonds of medium strengths, causing the zwitterion stability even superior to the canonical isomer. With the presence of two and three water molecules, the energy barriers for the conversion processes from the canonical isomers to the zwitterions are equal to 4.96 and 3.13 kcal mol(-1), respectively. It indicated that the zwitterion formation is facile to take place with addition of two molecules and further facilitated by more water molecules. Besides, the zwitterion formation of BL is finished in a single step, different from other NA inhibitors. Owing to the above advantages, BL is a good NA inhibitor candidate and more attention should be paid to explorations of BL-based drugs.
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- Zhi-Wei Yang
- Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; E-Mails: (Z.-W.Y.); (X.-M.W.); (L.-J.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; E-Mails: (Z.-W.Y.); (X.-M.W.); (L.-J.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; E-Mails: (Z.-W.Y.); (X.-M.W.); (L.-J.Z.)
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- Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China; E-Mails: (Z.-W.Y.); (X.-M.W.); (L.-J.Z.)
- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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Tian SX, Li HB, Yang J. Monoanion BH4−Can Stabilize Zwitterionic Glycine with Dihydrogen Bonds. Chemphyschem 2009; 10:1435-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200900158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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