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Tran VA, Teucher M, Galazzo L, Sharma B, Pongratz T, Kast SM, Marx D, Bordignon E, Schnegg A, Neese F. Dissecting the Molecular Origin of g-Tensor Heterogeneity and Strain in Nitroxide Radicals in Water: Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Experiment versus Theory. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6447-6466. [PMID: 37524058 PMCID: PMC10424240 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c02879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 07/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/02/2023]
Abstract
Nitroxides are common EPR sensors of microenvironmental properties such as polarity, numbers of H-bonds, pH, and so forth. Their solvation in an aqueous environment is facilitated by their high propensity to form H-bonds with the surrounding water molecules. Their g- and A-tensor elements are key parameters to extracting the properties of their microenvironment. In particular, the gxx value of nitroxides is rich in information. It is known to be characterized by discrete values representing nitroxide populations previously assigned to have different H-bonds with the surrounding waters. Additionally, there is a large g-strain, that is, a broadening of g-values associated with it, which is generally correlated with environmental and structural micro-heterogeneities. The g-strain is responsible for the frequency dependence of the apparent line width of the EPR spectra, which becomes evident at high field/frequency. Here, we address the molecular origin of the gxx heterogeneity and of the g-strain of a nitroxide moiety (HMI: 2,2,3,4,5,5-hexamethylimidazolidin-1-oxyl, C9H19N2O) in water. To treat the solvation effect on the g-strain, we combined a multi-frequency experimental approach with ab initio molecular dynamics simulations for structural sampling and quantum chemical EPR property calculations at the highest realistically affordable level, including an explicitly micro-solvated HMI ensemble and the embedded cluster reference interaction site model. We could clearly identify the distinct populations of the H-bonded nitroxides responsible for the gxx heterogeneity experimentally observed, and we dissected the role of the solvation shell, H-bond formation, and structural deformation of the nitroxide in the creation of the g-strain associated with each nitroxide subensemble. Two contributions to the g-strain were identified in this study. The first contribution depends on the number of hydrogen bonds formed between the nitroxide and the solvent because this has a large and well-understood effect on the gxx-shift. This contribution can only be resolved at high resonance frequencies, where it leads to distinct peaks in the gxx region. The second contribution arises from configurational fluctuations of the nitroxide that necessarily lead to g-shift heterogeneity. These contributions cannot be resolved experimentally as distinct resonances but add to the line broadening. They can be quantitatively analyzed by studying the apparent line width as a function of microwave frequency. Interestingly, both theory and experiment confirm that this contribution is independent of the number of H-bonds. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the theoretical analysis suggests that the configurational fluctuation broadening is not induced by the solvent but is inherently present even in the gas phase. Moreover, the calculations predict that this broadening decreases upon solvation of the nitroxide.
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- Van Anh Tran
- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Chemische Energiekonversion, Stiftstraße 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 30, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl
für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Fakultät
für Chemie und Chemische Biologie, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Fakultät
für Chemie und Chemische Biologie, Technische Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a, 44227 Dortmund, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl
für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department
of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Quai Ernest Ansermet 30, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Chemische Energiekonversion, Stiftstraße 34-36, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Falbo E, Fusè M, Lazzari F, Mancini G, Barone V. Integration of Quantum Chemistry, Statistical Mechanics, and Artificial Intelligence for Computational Spectroscopy: The UV-Vis Spectrum of TEMPO Radical in Different Solvents. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:6203-6216. [PMID: 36166322 PMCID: PMC9558374 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The ongoing integration of quantum chemistry, statistical
mechanics,
and artificial intelligence is paving the route toward more effective
and accurate strategies for the investigation of the spectroscopic
properties of medium-to-large size chromophores in condensed phases.
In this context we are developing a novel workflow aimed at improving
the generality, reliability, and ease of use of the available computational
tools. In this paper we report our latest developments with specific
reference to unsupervised atomistic simulations employing non periodic
boundary conditions (NPBC) followed by clustering of the trajectories
employing optimized feature spaces. Next accurate variational computations
are performed for a representative point of each cluster, whereas
intracluster fluctuations are taken into account by a cheap yet reliable
perturbative approach. A number of methodological improvements have
been introduced including, e.g., more realistic reaction field effects
at the outer boundary of the simulation sphere, automatic definition
of the feature space by continuous perception of solute–solvent
interactions, full account of polarization and charge transfer in
the first solvation shell, and inclusion of vibronic contributions.
After its validation, this new approach has been applied to the challenging
case of solvatochromic effects on the UV–vis spectra of a prototypical
nitroxide radical (TEMPO) in different solvents. The reliability,
effectiveness, and robustness of the new platform is demonstrated
by the remarkable agreement with experiment of the results obtained
through an unsupervised approach characterized by a strongly reduced
computational cost as compared to that of conventional quantum mechanics
and molecular mechanics models without any accuracy reduction.
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- Emanuele Falbo
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy.,Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Traslazionale, Università di Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126 Pisa, Italy
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Barone V, Fusè M, Pinto SMV, Tasinato N. A Computational Journey across Nitroxide Radicals: From Structure to Spectroscopic Properties and Beyond. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26237404. [PMID: 34885980 PMCID: PMC8659111 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26237404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2021] [Revised: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Nitroxide radicals are characterized by a long-lived open-shell electronic ground state and are strongly sensitive to the chemical environment, thus representing ideal spin probes and spin labels for paramagnetic biomolecules and materials. However, the interpretation of spectroscopic parameters in structural and dynamic terms requires the aid of accurate quantum chemical computations. In this paper we validate a computational model rooted into double-hybrid functionals and second order vibrational perturbation theory. Then, we provide reference quantum chemical results for the structures, vibrational frequencies and other spectroscopic features of a large panel of nitroxides of current biological and/or technological interest.
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Buta MC, Toader AM, Frecus B, Oprea CI, Cimpoesu F, Ionita G. Molecular and Supramolecular Interactions in Systems with Nitroxide-Based Radicals. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20194733. [PMID: 31554219 PMCID: PMC6801970 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20194733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Revised: 09/19/2019] [Accepted: 09/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Nitroxide-based radicals, having the advantage of firm chemical stability, are usable as probes in the detection of nanoscale details in the chemical environment of various multi-component systems, based on subtle variations in their electron paramagnetic resonance spectra. We propose a systematic walk through the vast area of problems and inquires that are implied by the rationalization of solvent effects on the spectral parameters, by first-principle methods of structural chemistry. Our approach consists of using state-of-the-art procedures, like Density Functional Theory (DFT), on properly designed systems, kept at the border of idealization and chemical realism. Thus, we investigate the case of real solvent molecules intervening in different configurations between two radical molecules, in comparison with radicals taken in vacuum or having the solvent that is treated by surrogate models, such as polarization continuum approximation. In this work, we selected the dichloromethane as solvent and the prototype radicals abbreviated TEMPO ((2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl) oxyl). In another branch of the work, we check the interaction of radicals with large toroidal molecules, β-cyclodextrin, and cucurbit[6]uril, modeling the interaction energy profile at encapsulation. The drawn synoptic view offers valuable rationales for understanding spectroscopy and energetics of nitroxide radicals in various environments, which are specific to soft chemistry.
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- Maria Cristina Buta
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Splaiul Independentei 202, 060021 Bucharest, Romania.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Splaiul Independentei 202, 060021 Bucharest, Romania.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Splaiul Independentei 202, 060021 Bucharest, Romania.
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- Department of Physics, Ovidius University, 900527 Constanţa, Romania.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Splaiul Independentei 202, 060021 Bucharest, Romania.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Splaiul Independentei 202, 060021 Bucharest, Romania.
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A DFT investigation exploring the influence of lone electron pair on hyperfine structures of N-centered radicals. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.09.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Giner E, Tenti L, Angeli C, Ferré N. Computation of the Isotropic Hyperfine Coupling Constant: Efficiency and Insights from a New Approach Based on Wave Function Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:475-487. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Emmanuel Giner
- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Famaceutiche, Universita di Ferrara, Via Fossato
di Mortara 17, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Famaceutiche, Universita di Ferrara, Via Fossato
di Mortara 17, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Scienze Chimiche e Famaceutiche, Universita di Ferrara, Via Fossato
di Mortara 17, I-44121 Ferrara, Italy
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Nalepa A, Möbius K, Lubitz W, Savitsky A. High-field ELDOR-detected NMR study of a nitroxide radical in disordered solids: towards characterization of heterogeneity of microenvironments in spin-labeled systems. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2014; 242:203-213. [PMID: 24685717 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2014.02.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Revised: 02/27/2014] [Accepted: 02/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
Abstract
The combination of high-field EPR with site-directed spin-labeling (SDSL) techniques employing nitroxide radicals has turned out to be particularly powerful in probing the polarity and proticity characteristics of protein/matrix systems. This information is concluded from the principal components of the nitroxide Zeeman (g), nitrogen hyperfine (A) and quadrupole (P) tensors of the spin labels attached to specific sites. Recent multi-frequency high-field EPR studies underlined the complexity of the problem to treat the nitroxide microenvironment in proteins adequately due to inherent heterogeneities which result in several principal x-components of the nitroxide g-tensor. Concomitant, but distinctly different nitrogen hyperfine components could, however, not be determined from high-field cw EPR experiments owing to the large intrinsic EPR linewidth in fully protonated guest/host systems. It is shown in this work that, using the W-band (95GHz) ELDOR- (electron-electron double resonance) detected NMR (EDNMR) method, different principal nitrogen hyperfine, Azz, and quadrupole, Pzz, tensor values of a nitroxide radical in glassy 2-propanol matrix can be measured with high accuracy. They belong to nitroxides with different hydrogen-bond situations. The satisfactory resolution and superior sensitivity of EDNMR as compared to the standard ENDOR (electron-nuclear double resonance) method are demonstrated.
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- Anna Nalepa
- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; Department of Physics, Free University Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Stiftstr. 34-36, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
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Schmidt TC, Paasche A, Grebner C, Ansorg K, Becker J, Lee W, Engels B. QM/MM investigations of organic chemistry oriented questions. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2014; 351:25-101. [PMID: 22392477 DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
About 35 years after its first suggestion, QM/MM became the standard theoretical approach to investigate enzymatic structures and processes. The success is due to the ability of QM/MM to provide an accurate atomistic picture of enzymes and related processes. This picture can even be turned into a movie if nuclei-dynamics is taken into account to describe enzymatic processes. In the field of organic chemistry, QM/MM methods are used to a much lesser extent although almost all relevant processes happen in condensed matter or are influenced by complicated interactions between substrate and catalyst. There is less importance for theoretical organic chemistry since the influence of nonpolar solvents is rather weak and the effect of polar solvents can often be accurately described by continuum approaches. Catalytic processes (homogeneous and heterogeneous) can often be reduced to truncated model systems, which are so small that pure quantum-mechanical approaches can be employed. However, since QM/MM becomes more and more efficient due to the success in software and hardware developments, it is more and more used in theoretical organic chemistry to study effects which result from the molecular nature of the environment. It is shown by many examples discussed in this review that the influence can be tremendous, even for nonpolar reactions. The importance of environmental effects in theoretical spectroscopy was already known. Due to its benefits, QM/MM can be expected to experience ongoing growth for the next decade.In the present chapter we give an overview of QM/MM developments and their importance in theoretical organic chemistry, and review applications which give impressions of the possibilities and the importance of the relevant effects. Since there is already a bunch of excellent reviews dealing with QM/MM, we will discuss fundamental ingredients and developments of QM/MM very briefly with a focus on very recent progress. For the applications we follow a similar strategy.
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- Thomas C Schmidt
- Institut für Phys. und Theor. Chemie, Emil-Fischer-Strasse 42, Campus Hubland Nord, 97074, Würzburg, Germany
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Hermosilla L, Prampolini G, Calle P, García de la Vega JM, Brancato G, Barone V. Extension of the AMBER Force Field for Nitroxide Radicals and Combined QM/MM/PCM Approach to the Accurate Determination of EPR Parameters of DMPO-H in Solution. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:3626-36. [PMID: 26584116 PMCID: PMC4660035 DOI: 10.1021/ct4003256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A computational strategy that combines both time-dependent and time-independent approaches is exploited to accurately model molecular dynamics and solvent effects on the isotropic hyperfine coupling constants of the DMPO-H nitroxide. Our recent general force field for nitroxides derived from AMBER ff99SB is further extended to systems involving hydrogen atoms in β-positions with respect to NO-moiety. The resulting force-field has been employed in a series of classical molecular dynamics simulations, comparing the computed EPR parameters from selected molecular configurations to the corresponding experimental data in different solvents. The effect of vibrational averaging on the spectroscopic parameters is also taken into account, by second-order vibrational perturbation theory involving semidiagonal third energy derivatives together first and second property derivatives.
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- Laura Hermosilla
- Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (Spain)
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- Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Area della Ricerca, via Moruzzi 1, I-56124, Pisa (Italy)
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- Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (Spain)
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126, Pisa (Italy)
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- Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126, Pisa (Italy)
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Frecus B, Rinkevicius Z, Ågren H. π-Stacking effects on the EPR parameters of a prototypical DNA spin label. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:10466-71. [PMID: 23685812 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp51129d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The character and value of spin labels for probing environments like double-stranded DNA depend on the degree of change in the spin Hamiltonian parameters of the spin label induced by the environment. Herein we provide a systematic theoretical investigation of this issue, based on a density functional theory method applied to a spin labeled DNA model system, focusing on the dependence of the EPR properties of the spin label on the π stacking and hydrogen bonding that occur upon incorporating the spin label into the selected base pair inside DNA. It is found that the EPR spin Hamiltonian parameters of the spin label are only negligibly affected by its incorporation into DNA, when compared to its free form. This result gives a theoretical ground for the common empirical assumption regarding the behaviour of spin Hamiltonian parameters made in EPR based measurements of the distance between spin labels incorporated into DNA.
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- Bogdan Frecus
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Biotechnology, Division of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Frecus B, Rinkevicius Z, Murugan NA, Vahtras O, Kongsted J, Ågren H. EPR spin Hamiltonian parameters of encapsulated spin-labels: impact of the hydrogen bonding topology. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:2427-34. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp43951d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Houriez C, Ferré N, Siri D, Tordo P, Masella M. Assessing the accuracy of a QM/MM//MD combined protocol to compute spectromagnetic properties of polyfunctional nitroxides in solution. Theor Chem Acc 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-012-1240-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Popova AM, Hatmal MM, Frushicheva M, Price EA, Qin PZ, Haworth IS. Nitroxide sensing of a DNA microenvironment: mechanistic insights from EPR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:6387-96. [PMID: 22574834 PMCID: PMC3382087 DOI: 10.1021/jp303303v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The behavior of the nitroxide spin labels 1-oxyl-4-bromo-2,2,5,5-tetramethylpyrroline (R5a) and 1-oxyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethylpyrroline (R5) attached at a phosphorothioate-substituted site in a DNA duplex is modulated by the DNA in a site- and stereospecific manner. A better understanding of the mechanisms of R5a/R5 sensing of the DNA microenvironment will enhance our capability to relate information from nitroxide spectra to sequence-dependent properties of DNA. Toward this goal, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to investigate R5 and R5a attached as R(p) and S(p) diastereomers at phosphorothioate (pS)C(7) of d(CTACTG(pS)C(7)Y(8)TTAG). d(CTAAAGCAGTAG) (Y = T or U). X-band continuous-wave EPR spectra revealed that the dT(8) to dU(8) change alters nanosecond rotational motions of R(p)-R5a but produces no detectable differences for S(p)-R5a, R(p)-R5, and S(p)-R5. MD simulations were able to qualitatively account for these spectral variations and provide a plausible physical basis for the R5/R5a behavior. The simulations also revealed a correlation between DNA backbone B(I)/B(II) conformations and R5/R5a rotational diffusion, thus suggesting a direct connection between DNA local backbone dynamics and EPR-detectable R5/R5a motion. These results advance our understanding of how a DNA microenvironment influences nitroxide motion and the observed EPR spectra. This may enable use of R5/R5a for a quantitative description of the sequence-dependent properties of large biologically relevant DNA molecules.
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- Anna M. Popova
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0744
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033-1039
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0744
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0744
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0744
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033-1039
- Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-9121
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Rinkevicius Z, Frecuş B, Murugan NA, Vahtras O, Kongsted J, Ågren H. Encapsulation Influence on EPR Parameters of Spin-Labels: 2,2,6,6-Tetramethyl-4-methoxypiperidine-1-oxyl in Cucurbit[8]uril. J Chem Theory Comput 2011; 8:257-63. [DOI: 10.1021/ct200816z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Zilvinas Rinkevicius
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Rinkevicius Z, Murugan NA, Kongsted J, Frecuş B, Steindal AH, Ågren H. Density Functional Restricted–Unrestricted/Molecular Mechanics Theory for Hyperfine Coupling Constants of Molecules in Solution. J Chem Theory Comput 2011; 7:3261-71. [DOI: 10.1021/ct2003572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Zilvinas Rinkevicius
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Dumont É, Ferré N. Geometrical Embedding Governs a Dramatic Variation of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Hyperfine Coupling Constants of Disulfide Radical Anions. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:6776-83. [DOI: 10.1021/jp2021566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Élise Dumont
- Institut de Chimie de Lyon, Université de Lyon, UMR 5182 CNRS LCh École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46, allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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- Universite de Provence, UMR 6264 Laboratoire Chimie Provence, Équipe Chimie Théorique, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérôme Case 521, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France
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Rinkevicius Z, Murugan NA, Kongsted J, Aidas K, Steindal AH, Ågren H. Density Functional Theory/Molecular Mechanics Approach for Electronic g-Tensors of Solvated Molecules. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:4350-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp1108653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Zilvinas Rinkevicius
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), Royal Institute of Technology, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Barone V, Cimino P, Pedone A. An integrated computational protocol for the accurate prediction of EPR and PNMR parameters of aminoxyl radicals in solution. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2010; 48 Suppl 1:S11-S22. [PMID: 20625984 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.2640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
Magnetic spectroscopic techniques such as electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and paramagnetic NMR (PNMR) are valuable tools for understanding the structure and dynamics of complex systems such as, for example, biomolecules or nanomaterials labeled with suitable free radicals. Unfortunately, such spectra do not give direct access to the radical structure because of the subtle interplay between several different effects not easily separable and evaluable by experimentalists alone. In this respect, computational spectroscopy is becoming an essential and versatile tool for the assignment and interpretation of experimental spectra. In this article, the new integrated computational approaches developed in the recent years in our research group are reviewed. Such approaches have been applied to two widely used spin probes showing that proper account of stereo-electronic, environmental and dynamical effects leads to magnetic properties in remarkable agreement with experimental results.
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Houriez C, Masella M, Ferré N. Structural and atoms-in-molecules analysis of hydrogen-bond network around nitroxides in liquid water. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:124508. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3478999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Houriez C, Ferré N, Siri D, Tordo P, Masella M. Structure and Spectromagnetic Properties of the Superoxide Radical Adduct of DMPO in Water: Elucidation by Theoretical Investigations. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:11793-803. [DOI: 10.1021/jp1033307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Céline Houriez
- UMR 6264 Laboratoire Chimie Provence, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérome Case 521, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France, and Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d’ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, Commissariat a l’énergie atomique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- UMR 6264 Laboratoire Chimie Provence, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérome Case 521, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France, and Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d’ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, Commissariat a l’énergie atomique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- UMR 6264 Laboratoire Chimie Provence, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérome Case 521, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France, and Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d’ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, Commissariat a l’énergie atomique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- UMR 6264 Laboratoire Chimie Provence, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérome Case 521, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France, and Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d’ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, Commissariat a l’énergie atomique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- UMR 6264 Laboratoire Chimie Provence, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérome Case 521, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France, and Laboratoire de Chimie du Vivant, Service d’ingénierie moléculaire des protéines, Institut de biologie et de technologies de Saclay, Commissariat a l’énergie atomique, Centre de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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Stendardo E, Pedone A, Cimino P, Cristina Menziani M, Crescenzi O, Barone V. Extension of the AMBER force-field for the study of large nitroxides in condensed phases: an ab initio parameterization. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:11697-709. [DOI: 10.1039/c001481h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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