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Sklenář A, Růžičková L, Schrenková V, Bednárová L, Pazderková M, Chatziadi A, Zmeškalová Skořepová E, Šoóš M, Kaminský J. Solid-state vibrational circular dichroism for pharmaceutical applications: Polymorphs and cocrystal of sofosbuvir. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2024; 318:124478. [PMID: 38788502 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2023] [Revised: 05/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
Abstract
X-ray diffraction is a commonly used technique in the pharmaceutical industry for the determination of the atomic and molecular structure of crystals. However, it is costly, sometimes time-consuming, and it requires a considerable degree of expertise. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy resolves these limitations, while also exhibiting substantial sensitivity to subtle modifications in the conformation and molecular packaging in the solid state. This study showcases VCD's ability to differentiate between various crystal structures of the same molecule (polymorphs, cocrystals). We examined the most effective approach for producing high-quality spectra and unveiled the intricate link between structure and spectrum via quantum-chemical computations. We rigorously assessed, using alanine as a model compound, multiple experimental conditions on the resulting VCD spectra, with the aim of proposing an optimal and efficient procedure. The proposed approach, which yields reliable, reproducible, and artifact-free results with maximal signal-to-noise ratio, was then validated using a set comprising of three amino acids (serine, alanine, tyrosine), one hydroxy acid (tartaric acid), and a monosaccharide (ribose) to mimic active pharmaceutical components. Finally, the optimized approach was applied to distinguish three polymorphs of the antiviral drug sofosbuvir and its cocrystal with piperazine. Our results indicate that solid-state VCD is a prompt, cost-effective, and easy-to-use technique to identify crystal structures, demonstrating potential for application in pharmaceuticals. We also adapted the cluster and transfer approach to calculate the spectral properties of molecules in a periodic crystal environment. Our findings demonstrate that this approach reliably produces solid-state VCD spectra of model compounds. Although for large molecules with many atoms per unit cell, such as sofosbuvir, this approach has to be simplified and provides only a qualitative match, spectral calculations, and energy analysis helped us to decipher the observed differences in the experimental spectra of sofosbuvir.
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- Adam Sklenář
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic; University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic; Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic; Institute of Physics of the CAS, Na Slovance 1999/2, Prague 182 21, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, Prague 166 28, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám.2, Prague 166 10, Czech Republic.
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Taniguchi T, Agbo DO, Yang Q, Kapitán J, Wu T, Oyama S, Akai S, Sawama Y, Bouř P. Raman optical activity study of deuterated sugars: deuterium labelling as a tool for structural analysis. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:21568-21574. [PMID: 39082369 DOI: 10.1039/d4cp02406k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
Abstract
Structural analyses using Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopy conventionally rely on vibrational signals in the fingerprint region ranging from 100 to 1800 cm-1. Use of deuterium labelling to observe ROA signals in the C-D stretching region provides additional information about a local structure of large molecular systems. So far, the potential of C-D stretching ROA signals for structural analysis has rarely been explored. In the present work, we synthesized model deuterated glucose monosaccharides and studied their ROA properties by employing molecular dynamics and density functional theory to interpret the spectra. A good agreement between the simulated and experimental spectra is achieved when the proper conformer ratios are considered. This shows the usefulness of ROA spectroscopy assisted by deuterium labelling for stereochemical and conformational analysis.
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- Tohru Taniguchi
- Frontier Research Center for Advanced Material and Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, North 21 West 11, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
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- Frontier Research Center for Advanced Material and Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University, North 21 West 11, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan.
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic
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Chaloupecká E, Kurfiřt M, Červenková Šťastná L, Karban J, Dračínský M. Exploring long-range fluorine-carbon J-coupling for conformational analysis of deoxyfluorinated disaccharides: A combined computational and NMR study. Bioorg Chem 2024; 147:107388. [PMID: 38678775 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2024.107388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Revised: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/18/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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In this study, we investigated the potential of long-range fluorine-carbon J-coupling for determining the structures of deoxyfluorinated disaccharides. Three disaccharides, previously synthesized as potential galectin inhibitors, exhibited through-space fluorine-carbon J-couplings. In our independent conformational analysis of these disaccharide derivatives, we employed a combination of density functional theory (DFT) calculations and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments. By comparing the calculated nuclear shieldings with the experimental carbon chemical shifts, we were able to identify the most probable conformers for each compound. A model comprising fluoromethane and methane molecules was used to study the relationship between molecular arrangements and intermolecular through-space J-coupling. Our study demonstrates the important effect of internuclear distance and molecular orientation on the magnitude of fluorine-carbon coupling. The experimental values for the fluorine-carbon through-space couplings (TSCs) of the disaccharides corresponded with values calculated for the most probable conformers identified by the conformational analysis. These results unlock the broader application of fluorine-carbon TSCs as powerful tools for conformational analysis of flexible molecules, offering valuable insights for future structural investigations.
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- Ema Chaloupecká
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, 128 40 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 1/135, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic; University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 3, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 1/135, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 1/135, 165 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160 00 Prague, Czech Republic.
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Le DPN, Hastings G, Gozem S. How Aqueous Solvation Impacts the Frequencies and Intensities of Infrared Absorption Bands in Flavin: The Quest for a Suitable Solvent Model. Molecules 2024; 29:520. [PMID: 38276598 PMCID: PMC10818357 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29020520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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FTIR spectroscopy accompanied by quantum chemical simulations can reveal important information about molecular structure and intermolecular interactions in the condensed phase. Simulations typically account for the solvent either through cluster quantum mechanical (QM) models, polarizable continuum models (PCM), or hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) models. Recently, we studied the effect of aqueous solvent interactions on the vibrational frequencies of lumiflavin, a minimal flavin model, using cluster QM and PCM models. Those models successfully reproduced the relative frequencies of four prominent stretching modes of flavin's isoalloxazine ring in the diagnostic 1450-1750 cm-1 range but poorly reproduced the relative band intensities. Here, we extend our studies on this system and account for solvation through a series of increasingly sophisticated models. Only by combining elements of QM clusters, QM/MM, and PCM approaches do we obtain an improved agreement with the experiment. The study sheds light more generally on factors that can impact the computed frequencies and intensities of IR bands in solution.
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- D. P. Ngan Le
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; (D.P.N.L.); (G.H.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; (D.P.N.L.); (G.H.)
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA; (D.P.N.L.); (G.H.)
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Choutka J, Parkan K, Pohl R, Kaminský J. On the origin of the electronic and magnetic circular dichroism of naphthyl C-glycosides: Anomeric configuration. Carbohydr Res 2024; 535:109021. [PMID: 38171193 DOI: 10.1016/j.carres.2023.109021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Aryl C-glycosides, in which the glycosidic bond is changed to a carbon-carbon bond, are an important family of biologically-active compounds. They often serve as secondary metabolites or exhibit antibiotic and cytostatic activities. Their stability to hydrolysis has made them attractive targets for new drugs. Their conformational behavior often strongly influences the resulting function. Their detailed structural and conformational description is thus highly desirable. This work studies the structure of three different naphthyl C-glycosides using UV-vis absorption as well as electronic and magnetic circular dichroism. It also describes their conformational preferences using a combination of molecular dynamics and DFT calculations. The reliability of these preferences has been verified by simulations of spectral properties and a comparison with their measured spectra. In particular, ECD spectroscopy has been shown to distinguish easily between α- and β-pseudoanomers of aryl C-glycosides. Computer simulations and spectral decomposition have revealed how the resulting ECD patterns of the naphthyl glycosides studied are influenced by different conformer populations. In conclusion, reliable ECD patterns cannot be calculated by separating the naphthyl rotation from other conformational motions. MCD patterns have been similar for all the naphthyl C-glycosides studied. No clear diagnostic features have been found for either the pseudoanomeric configuration or the preferred hydroxymethyl rotamer. Nevertheless, the work has demonstrated the potential of MCD for the study of aryl glycosides interacting with proteins.
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- Jan Choutka
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry AS CR, Flemingovo nám. 2, 160 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Das M, Gangopadhyay D, Hudecová J, Kessler J, Kapitán J, Bouř P. Monitoring Conformation and Protonation States of Glutathione by Raman Optical Activity and Molecular Dynamics. Chempluschem 2023; 88:e202300219. [PMID: 37283530 DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202300219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 06/07/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Glutathione (GSH) is a common antioxidant and its biological activity depends on the conformation and protonation state. We used molecular dynamics, Raman and Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopies to investigate GSH structural changes in a broad pH range. Factor analysis of the spectra provided protonation constants (2.05, 3.45, 8.62, 9.41) in good agreement with previously published values. Following the analysis, spectra of differently protonated forms were obtained by extrapolation. The complete deprotonation of the thiol group above pH 11 was clearly visible in the spectra; however, many spectral features did not change much with pH. Experimental spectra at various pH values were decomposed into the simulated ones, which allowed us to study the conformer populations and quality of molecular dynamics (MD). According to this combined ROA/MD analysis conformation of the GSH backbone is affected by the pH changes only in a limited way. The combination of ROA with the computations thus has the potential to improve the MD force field and obtain more accurate populations of the conformer species. The methodology can be used for any molecule, but for a more detailed insight better computational techniques are needed in the future.
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- Moumita Das
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, 16628, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 12, 77146, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17. listopadu 12, 77146, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610, Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Analytical Chemistry Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, 16628, Prague 6, Czech Republic
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Perera AS, Carlson CD, Cheramy J, Xu Y. Infrared and vibrational circular dichroism spectra of methyl β-D-glucopyranose in water: The application of the quantum cluster growth and clusters-in-a-liquid solvation models. Chirality 2023; 35:718-731. [PMID: 37162747 DOI: 10.1002/chir.23576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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The infrared (IR) and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of methyl β-D-glucopyranose in water were measured. Both implicit and explicit solvation models were utilized to explain the observed spectra. The vast body of existing experimental and theoretical data suggested that about eight explicit water molecules are needed to account for the solvent effects, supported by the current Quantum Cluster Growth (QCG) analysis. Extensive manual and systematic conformational searches of the molecular target and its water clusters were carried out by using a recently developed conformational searching tool, conformer-rotamer ensemble sampling tool (CREST), and the microsolvation model in the associated QCG code. The Boltzmann averaged IR and VCD spectra of the methyl β-D-glucopyranose-(water)n (n = 8) conformers in the PCM of water provide better agreement with the experimental ones than those with n = 0, 1, and 2. The explicit solvation with eight water molecules was shown to greatly modify the conformational preference of methyl β-D-glucopyranose from its monomeric form. Further analyses show that the result is consistent with the existence of long-lived methyl β-D-glucopyranose monohydrates with the additional explicit water effects being accounted for with the quantum mechanical treatment of the other seven close-by water molecules in the PCM of water.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Alshalalfeh M, Sun N, Moraes AH, Utani APA, Xu Y. Conformational Distributions of Phenyl β-D-Glucopyranoside and Gastrodin in Solution by Vibrational Optical Activity and Theoretical Calculations. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28104013. [PMID: 37241754 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28104013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023] Open
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The conformational landscapes of two highly flexible monosaccharide derivatives, namely phenyl β-D-glucopyranoside (ph-β-glu) and 4-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl β-D-glucopyranoside, also commonly known as gastrodin, were explored using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. For the infrared, Raman, and the associated vibrational optical activity (VOA), i.e., vibrational circular dichroism and Raman optical activity, experiments of these two compounds in DMSO and in water were carried out. Extensive and systematic conformational searches were performed using a recently developed conformational searching tool called CREST (conformer-rotamer ensemble sampling tool) in the two solvents. Fourteen and twenty-four low-energy conformers were identified at the DFT level for ph-β-glu and gastrodin, respectively. The spectral simulations of individual conformers were done at the B3LYP-D3BJ/def2-TZVPD level with the polarizable continuum model of the solvents. The VOA spectral features exhibit much higher specificity to conformational differences than their parent infrared and Raman. The excellent agreements achieved between the experimental and simulated VOA spectra allow for the extraction of experimental conformational distributions of these two carbohydrates in solution directly. The experimental percentage abundances based on the hydroxymethyl (at the pyranose ring) conformations G+, G-, and T for ph-β-glu were obtained to be 15%, 75%, and 10% in DMSO and 53%, 40%, and 7% in water, respectively, in comparison to the previously reported gas phase values of 68%, 25%, and 7%, highlighting the important role of solvents in conformational preferences. The corresponding experimental distributions for gastrodin are 56%, 22%, and 22% in DMSO and 70%, 21%, and 9% in water.
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- Mutasem Alshalalfeh
- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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Schrenková V, Para Kkadan MS, Kessler J, Kapitán J, Bouř P. Molecular dynamics and Raman optical activity spectra reveal nucleotide conformation ratios in solution. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:8198-8208. [PMID: 36880812 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp05756e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/11/2023]
Abstract
Nucleotide conformational flexibility affects their biological functions. Although the spectroscopy of Raman optical activity (ROA) is well suited to structural analyses in aqueous solutions, the link between the spectral shape and the nucleotide geometry is not fully understood. We recorded the Raman and ROA spectra of model nucleotides (rAMP, rGMP, rCMP, and dTMP) and interpreted them on the basis of molecular dynamics (MD) combined with density functional theory (DFT). The relation between the sugar puckering, base conformation and spectral intensities is discussed. Hydrogen bonds between the sugar's C3' hydroxyl and the phosphate groups were found to be important for the sugar puckering. The simulated spectra correlated well with the experimental data and provided an understanding of the dependence of the spectral shapes on conformational dynamics. Most of the strongest spectral bands could be assigned to vibrational molecular motions. Decomposition of the experimental spectra into calculated subspectra based on arbitrary maps of free energies provided experimental conformer populations, which could be used to verify and improve the MD predictions. The analyses indicate some flaws of common MD force fields, such as being unable to describe the fine conformer distribution. Also the accuracy of conformer populations obtained from the spectroscopic data depends on the simulations, improvement of which is desirable for gaining a more detailed insight in the future. Improvement of the spectroscopic and computational methodology for nucleotides also provides opportunities for its application to larger nucleic acids.
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- Věra Schrenková
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic. .,Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, 16628 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic. .,Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 121 16, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, 77146, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, 16610 Prague, Czech Republic. .,Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, 16628 Prague, Czech Republic
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Wang S, Huang Q. A spectroscopic approach to identifying the out-of-plane conformations of Ni(II) meso-tetraphenylporphyrin in solution. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.133778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hudecová J, Kapitán J, Dračínský M, Michal P, Profant V, Bouř P. Structure of Zinc and Nickel Histidine Complexes in Solution Revealed by Molecular Dynamics and Raman Optical Activity. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202202045. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202202045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Jana Hudecová
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16000 Prague Czech Republic
- Department of Optics Palacký University 17. listopadu 12 771 46 Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics Palacký University 17. listopadu 12 771 46 Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16000 Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics Palacký University 17. listopadu 12 771 46 Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Ke Karlovu 5 121 16 Prague Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16000 Prague Czech Republic
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Choutka J, Kratochvíl M, Císařová I, Pohl R, Kaminský J, Parkan K. Silicon-bridged (1→1)-disaccharides: an umpoled glycomimetic scaffold. Org Biomol Chem 2022; 20:7613-7621. [PMID: 35861668 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob01161a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Modification of the carbohydrate scaffold is an important theme in drug and vaccine discovery. Therefore, the preparation of novel types of glycomimetics is of interest in synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. In this manuscript, we present an early investigation of the synthesis, structure, and conformational behaviour of (1→1)-Si-disaccharides as a novel type of glycomimetics arising from the replacement of interglycosidic oxygen with a dimethyl-, methylpropyl-, or diisopropylsilyl linkage. We accomplished the preparation of this unusual group of umpoled compounds by the reaction of lithiated glycal or 2-oxyglycal units with dialkyldichlorosilanes. We demonstrated the good stability of the "Si-glycosidic" linkage under acidic conditions even at elevated temperatures. Next, we described the conformational landscape of these compounds by the combination of in silico modelling with spectroscopic and crystallographic methods. Finally, we explained the observed conformational flexibility of these compounds by the absence of gauche stabilizing effects that are typically at play in natural carbohydrates.
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- Jan Choutka
- Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Hlavova 2030, 128 40, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 166 28, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Palivec V, Pohl R, Kaminský J, Martinez-Seara H. Efficiently Computing NMR 1H and 13C Chemical Shifts of Saccharides in Aqueous Environment. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4373-4386. [PMID: 35687789 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Determining the structure of saccharides in their native environment is crucial to understanding their function and more accurately targeting their utilization. Nuclear magnetic resonance observables such as the nuclear Overhauser effect or spin-spin coupling constants are routinely utilized to study saccharides in their native water environment. However, while highly sensitive to the local environment, chemical shifts are mostly overlooked, despite being commonly measured for compounds identification. Although chemical shifts carry considerable structural information, their direct association with structure is notoriously difficult. This is mostly due to the similarity in the chemical nature of most saccharides causing similar physicochemical environments close to sugar C and H atoms, resulting in comparable chemical shifts. The rise of computational power allows one to compute reliable chemical shifts and use them to determine atomistic details of these sugars in solution. However, any prediction is severely limited by the computational protocol used and its accuracy. In this work, we studied a set of 31 saccharides on which we evaluated various computational protocols to calculate the total number of 375 1H and 327 13C chemical shifts of sugars in an aqueous environment. Our study proposes two cost-effective protocols for simulating 1H and 13C chemical shifts that we recommend for further use. These protocols can help with the interpretation of experimental spectra, but we also show that they are also capable of structure prediction independently. This is possible because of the low mean absolute deviations of calculated shifts from the experiment (0.06 ppm for 1H and 1.09 ppm for 13C). We explore different solvation methods, basis sets, and optimization schemes to reach such accuracy. A correct sampling of the conformation phase space of flexible sugar molecules is also key to obtaining accurately converged theoretical chemical shifts. The linear regression method was applied to convert the calculated isotropic nuclear magnetic shielding constants to simulated chemical shifts comparable with the experiment. The achieved level of accuracy can help in utilizing chemical shifts for elucidating the 3D atomistic structure of saccharides in aqueous solutions. All linear regression parameters obtained on our extensive set of sugars for all the tested protocols can be reutilized in future works.
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- Vladimír Palivec
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo námĕstí 542/2, Prague 6 CZ166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo námĕstí 542/2, Prague 6 CZ166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo námĕstí 542/2, Prague 6 CZ166 10, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo námĕstí 542/2, Prague 6 CZ166 10, Czech Republic
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Antila HS, Kav B, Miettinen MS, Martinez-Seara H, Jungwirth P, Ollila OHS. Emerging Era of Biomolecular Membrane Simulations: Automated Physically-Justified Force Field Development and Quality-Evaluated Databanks. J Phys Chem B 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Hanne S. Antila
- Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, 14424 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute of Biological Information Processing, Structural Biochemistry (IBI-7), Forschungszentrum
Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Str., 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, 5008 Bergen, Norway
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nam. 2, 16000 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biotechonology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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Morgante P, Ludowieg HD, Autschbach J. Comparative Study of Vibrational Raman Optical Activity with Different Time-Dependent Density Functional Approximations: The VROA36 Database. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:2909-2927. [PMID: 35512708 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c00951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A new database, VROA36, is introduced to investigate the performance of computational approaches for vibrational Raman optical activity (VROA) calculations. The database is composed of 36 molecules with known experimental VROA spectra. It includes 93 conformers. Normal modes calculated with B3LYP-D3(BJ)/def2-TZVP are used to compute the VROA spectra with four functionals, B3LYP-D3(BJ), ωB97X-D, M11, and optimally tuned LC-PBE, as well as several basis sets. SimROA indices and frequency scaling factors are used to compare calculated spectra with each other and with experimental data. The four functionals perform equally well independently of the basis set and usually achieve good agreement with the experimental data. For molecules in near- or at-resonance conditions, the inclusion of a complex (damped) linear response approach is important to obtain physically meaningful VROA intensities. The use of any of the tested functional approximations with the def2-SVPD Gaussian-type basis set, or a basis of similar flexibility, can be recommended for efficient and reliable theoretical VROA studies.
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- Pierpaolo Morgante
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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Aerts R, Bogaerts J, Herrebout W, Johannessen C. Insights in the vibrational optical activity spectra of the antibiotic vancomycin in DMSO. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:9619-9625. [PMID: 35403645 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00746k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and Raman optical activity (ROA) are two spectroscopic techniques that are sensitive towards the conformational behaviour of molecules, and are often complementary herein. In this work we pursue the determination of the conformational ensemble of the antibiotic glycopeptide vancomycin in DMSO through comparison of experimental and computational spectra, both for VCD and ROA. ROA is found to be highly suitable for the task, identifying an ensemble that strongly resembles the NMR conformation. In the case of VCD, however, a too high sensitivity of the intensities with respect to minor conformational changes hampers a reliable conformational analysis. Whence attempting to improve the match between the VCD experiment and calculations by any means - e.g., by inducing minor conformational changes or including solvent effects in the calculations - we show that there is the risk of going down the rabbit hole. In conclusion, this work contributes to the broader understanding of where, when and how VCD and ROA can be deployed as techniques for conformational analysis.
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- Roy Aerts
- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
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Palivec V, Johannessen C, Kaminský J, Martinez-Seara H. Use of Raman and Raman optical activity to extract atomistic details of saccharides in aqueous solution. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1009678. [PMID: 35051172 PMCID: PMC8806073 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Sugars are crucial components in biosystems and industrial applications. In aqueous environments, the natural state of short saccharides or charged glycosaminoglycans is floating and wiggling in solution. Therefore, tools to characterize their structure in a native aqueous environment are crucial but not always available. Here, we show that a combination of Raman/ROA and, on occasions, NMR experiments with Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) is a viable method to gain insights into structural features of sugars in solutions. Combining these methods provides information about accessible ring puckering conformers and their proportions. It also provides information about the conformation of the linkage between the sugar monomers, i.e., glycosidic bonds, allowing for identifying significantly accessible conformers and their relative abundance. For mixtures of sugar moieties, this method enables the deconvolution of the Raman/ROA spectra to find the actual amounts of its molecular constituents, serving as an effective analytical technique. For example, it allows calculating anomeric ratios for reducing sugars and analyzing more complex sugar mixtures to elucidate their real content. Altogether, we show that combining Raman/ROA spectroscopies with simulations is a versatile method applicable to saccharides. It allows for accessing many features with precision comparable to other methods routinely used for this task, making it a viable alternative. Furthermore, we prove that the proposed technique can scale up by studying the complicated raffinose trisaccharide, and therefore, we expect its wide adoption to characterize sugar structural features in solution.
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- Vladimír Palivec
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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Kaminský J, Horáčková F, Biačková N, Hubáčková T, Socha O, Kubelka J. Double Hydrogen Bonding Dimerization Propensity of Aqueous Hydroxy Acids Investigated Using Vibrational Optical Activity. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:11350-11363. [PMID: 34612644 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Lactic and malic acids are key substances in a number of biochemical processes in living cells and are also utilized in industry. Vibrational spectroscopy represents an efficient and sensitive way to study their structure and interactions. Since water is the natural environment, proper understanding of their molecular dynamics in aqueous solutions is of critical importance. To this end, we employed Raman spectroscopy and Raman optical activity (ROA) to study the conformation of l-lactic and l-malic acids in water (while varying pH, temperature, and concentration), with special emphasis on their double hydrogen bonding dimerization propensity. Raman and ROA experimental data were supported by extensive theoretical calculations of the vibrational properties and by additional experiments (IR absorption, vibrational circular dichroism, and NMR). Conformational behavior of the acids in water was described by molecular dynamics simulations. Reliability of the results was verified by calculating the vibrational properties of populated conformers and by comparing thus obtained spectral features with the experimental data. Calculations estimated the incidence of H-bonded dimers in water to be low in lactic acid and comparable to monomers in malic acid. The "hybrid" approach presented here reveals limitations of relying on the experimental spectra alone to study dimer formation.
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- Jakub Kaminský
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 10 Prague, Czech Republic
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- University of Wyoming, 651 N. 19th Street, Laramie, Wyoming 82072, United States
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Guo YT, Xiao YH, Zhang JG, Bian SD, Zhou JZ, Wu DY, Tian ZQ. Inspecting the structural characteristics of chiral drug penicillamine under different pH conditions using Raman optical activity spectroscopy and DFT calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:22119-22132. [PMID: 34580687 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02219a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The investigation of the structural characteristics of chiral drugs in physiological environments is a challenging research topic, which may lead to a better understanding of how the drugs work. Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopy in combination with density functional theory (DFT) calculations was exploited to inspect the structural changes in penicillamine under different acid-base states in aqueous solutions. The B3LYP/aug-cc-PVDZ method was employed and the implicit solvation model density (SMD) was considered for describing the solvation effect in H2O. The conformations of penicillamine varied with pH, but penicillamine was liable to stabilize in the form of the PC conformation (the sulfur atom is in a trans orientation with respect to carboxylate) in most cases for both D- and L-isomers. The relationship between the conformations of penicillamine and the ROA peaks, as well as peak assignments, were comprehensively studied and elucidated. In the fingerprint region, two ROA couplets and one ROA triplet with different patterns were recognized. The intensity, sign and frequency of the corresponding peaks also changed with varying pH. Deuteration was carried out to identify the vibrational modes, and the ROA peaks of the deuterated amino group in particular are sensitive to change in the ambient environment. The results are expected not only to serve as a reference for the interpretation of the ROA spectra of penicillamine and other chiral drugs with analogous structures but also to evaluate the structural changes of chiral molecules in physiological environments, which will form the basis of further exploration of the effects of structural characteristics on the pharmacological and toxicological properties of chiral drugs.
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- Yu-Ting Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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Das M, Gangopadhyay D, Šebestík J, Habartová L, Michal P, Kapitán J, Bouř P. Chiral detection by induced surface-enhanced Raman optical activity. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:6388-6391. [PMID: 34085068 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc01504d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Combination of optical activity with surface-enhanced Raman scattering has been a dream of physical chemists for a long time. We report a measurement protocol based on silver colloids and aromatic linkers where chiral acids could be detected in concentrations of about 10-5 M. We explain the mechanism by binding and self-assembly of the linkers into chiral aggregates on the silver surface. Following the "sergeants-and-soldiers" principle, the chirality is determined by the relatively minor acidic component. Such detection of biologically relevant molecules may be useful when other methods, such as electronic circular dichroism, are not sensitive enough. In the future, variations of the chemical structure of the linker or other conditions are needed to provide a more specific signal allowing one to better discriminate among the optically active molecules.
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- Moumita Das
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, Prague 16610, Czech Republic. and Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, Prague 16628, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, Prague 16610, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, Prague 16610, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, Prague 16628, Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, Olomouc, 77146, Czech Republic
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- Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, 17. listopadu 12, Olomouc, 77146, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo náměstí 2, Prague 16610, Czech Republic. and Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Technická 5, Prague 16628, Czech Republic
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Aerts R, Vanhove J, Herrebout W, Johannessen C. Paving the way to conformationally unravel complex glycopeptide antibiotics by means of Raman optical activity. Chem Sci 2021; 12:5952-5964. [PMID: 35342545 PMCID: PMC8867523 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01446c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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It is crucial for fundamental physical chemistry techniques to find their application in tackling real-world challenges. Hitherto, Raman optical activity (ROA) spectroscopy is one of the examples where a promising future within the pharmaceutical sector is foreseen, but has not yet been established. Namely, the technique is believed to be able to contribute in investigating the conformational behaviour of drug candidates. We, herein, strive towards the alignment of the ROA analysis outcome and the pharmaceutical expectations by proposing a fresh strategy that ensures a more complete, reliable, and transferable ROA study. The strategy consists of the treatment of the conformational space by means of a principal component analysis (PCA) and a clustering algorithm, succeeded by a thorough ROA spectral analysis and a novel way of estimating the contributions of the different chemical fragments to the total ROA spectral intensities. Here, vancomycin, an antibiotic glycopeptide, has been treated; it is the first antibiotic glycopeptide studied by means of ROA and is a challenging compound in ROA terms. By applying our approach we discover that ROA is capable of independently identifying the correct conformation of vancomycin in aqueous solution. In addition, we have a clear idea of what ROA can and cannot tell us regarding glycopeptides. Finally, the glycopeptide class turns out to be a spectroscopically curious case, as its spectral responses are unlike the typical ROA spectral responses of peptides and carbohydrates. This preludes future ROA studies of this intriguing molecular class.
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- Roy Aerts
- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerp Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerp Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerp Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerp Belgium
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Kaminský J, Andrushchenko V, Bouř P. Natural and magnetic circular dichroism spectra of nucleosides: effect of the dynamics and environment. RSC Adv 2021; 11:8411-8419. [PMID: 35423314 PMCID: PMC8695171 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra00076d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Chiroptical spectroscopic methods are excellent tools to study structure and interactions of biomolecules. However, their sensitivity to different structural aspects varies. To understand the dependence of absorption, electronic and magnetic circular dichroism (ECD, MCD) intensities on the structure, dynamics and environment, we measured and simulated spectra of nucleosides and other nucleic acid model components. The conformation space was explored by molecular dynamics (MD), the electronic spectra were generated using time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The sum over state (SOS) method was employed for MCD. The results show that accounting for the dynamics is crucial for reproduction of the experiment. While unpolarized absorption spectroscopy is relatively indifferent, ECD reflects the conformation and geometry dispersion more. MCD spectra provide variable response dependent on the wavelength and structural change. In general, MCD samples the structure more locally than ECD. Simple computational tests suggest that the optical spectroscopies coupled with the computational tools provide useful information about nucleic acid components, including base pairing and stacking.
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- Jakub Kaminský
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16610 Prague Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16610 Prague Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16610 Prague Czech Republic
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Kazachenko AS, Tomilin FN, Pozdnyakova AA, Vasilyeva NY, Malyar YN, Kuznetsova SA, Avramov PV. Theoretical DFT interpretation of infrared spectra of biologically active arabinogalactan sulphated derivatives. CHEMICAL PAPERS 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11696-020-01220-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Ghidinelli S, Abbate S, Koshoubu J, Araki Y, Wada T, Longhi G. Solvent Effects and Aggregation Phenomena Studied by Vibrational Optical Activity and Molecular Dynamics: The Case of Pantolactone. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:4512-4526. [PMID: 32396357 PMCID: PMC8007093 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Raman and Raman optical activity (ROA), IR, and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of (R)- and (S)-pantolactone have been recorded in three solvents. ROA has been employed on water and DMSO solutions, VCD on DMSO and CCl4 solutions. In the last solvent, monomer-dimer equilibrium is present. Due to the low conformational flexibility of the isolated molecule and to the possibility of aggregation, this compound has been used here to test different protocols for computation of the spectroscopic responses taking into account solvent effects. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been carried out together with statistical clustering methods based on collective variables to extract the structures needed to calculate the spectra. Quantum mechanical DFT calculations based on PCM are compared with approaches based on different representations of the solvent shell (MM or QM level). Appropriate treatment of the solvent permits obtaining of good band-shapes, with the added advantage that the MD analysis allows one to take into account flexibility of dimeric structures justifying the broadness of observed bands and the absence of intense VCD couplets in the carbonyl and OH stretching regions.
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- Simone Ghidinelli
- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Traslazionale, Università di Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Traslazionale, Università di Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy.,Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), CNR, Research Unit of Brescia, c/o CSMT, Via Branze 45, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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- JASCO Corporation, 2967-5 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8537, Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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- Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan
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- Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Traslazionale, Università di Brescia, Viale Europa 11, 25123 Brescia, Italy.,Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO), CNR, Research Unit of Brescia, c/o CSMT, Via Branze 45, 25123 Brescia, Italy
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Palivec V, Michal P, Kapitán J, Martinez‐Seara H, Bouř P. Raman Optical Activity of Glucose and Sorbose in Extended Wavenumber Range. Chemphyschem 2020; 21:1272-1279. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Vladimír Palivec
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and BiochemistryAcademy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16610 Prague Czech Republic
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- Department of OpticsPalacký University Olomouc 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Department of OpticsPalacký University Olomouc 17. listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and BiochemistryAcademy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16610 Prague Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and BiochemistryAcademy of Sciences Flemingovo náměstí 2 16610 Prague Czech Republic
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Mendes de Oliveira D, Zukowski SR, Palivec V, Hénin J, Martinez-Seara H, Ben-Amotz D, Jungwirth P, Duboué-Dijon E. Binding of divalent cations to acetate: molecular simulations guided by Raman spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:24014-24027. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02987d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We combine Raman-MCR vibrational spectroscopy experiments with ab initio and classical MD simulations to gain molecular insights into carboxylate–cation binding.
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Flemingovo nám. 2
- 16610 Prague 6
- Czech Republic
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- CNRS, Université de Paris
- UPR 9080
- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique
- 13 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie
- Paris
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Flemingovo nám. 2
- 16610 Prague 6
- Czech Republic
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- Department of Chemistry
- Purdue University
- West Lafayette
- USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Flemingovo nám. 2
- 16610 Prague 6
- Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
- Flemingovo nám. 2
- 16610 Prague 6
- Czech Republic
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