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Analyzing Protein Architectures and Protein-Ligand Complexes by Integrative Structural Mass Spectrometry
Published on: October 15, 2018
A fragment molecular-orbital-multicomponent molecular-orbital method for analyzing HD isotope effects in large
Takayoshi Ishimoto1, Masanori Tachikawa, Umpei Nagashima
1Research Institute for Computational Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8561, Japan. t.ishimoto@aist.go.jp
Abstract:
We have developed a fragment molecular orbital (FMO)-multi-component MO (MC_MO) method to analyze isotope effect due to differences between the quantum effects of protons and deuterons for large molecules such as proteins and DNA. The FMO-MC_MO method enables the determination of both the electronic and the protonic (deuteronic) wave functions simultaneously, and can directly express isotope effects, including coupling effects between nuclei and electrons. In our calculations of two polyglycines, which serve as prototypes for biological molecules, by this method, we clearly observed the geometrical relaxation induced by the HD isotope effect in the intramolecular hydrogen bonding portions of the molecules. The HD isotope effect on the interfragment interaction energy, including that of the hydrogen bonding parts, was also demonstrated: the hydrogen bond was weakened by replacement of hydrogen with deuterium. We also developed electrostatic potential approximations for use in the FMO-MC_MO calculations, and the accuracy of the energy differences induced by the isotope effect was independent of the approximation level of the FMO-MC_MO. Our results confirmed that the FMO-MC_MO method is a powerful tool for the detailed analysis of changes in hydrogen bonding and interaction energies induced by the HD isotope effect for large biological molecules.
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