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Isotopic Effect in Double Proton Transfer Process of Porphycene Investigated by Enhanced QM/MM Method
Published on: July 19, 2019
QM/MM analysis of effect of divalent metal ions on OPRT action
N N Subrahmanyeswara Rao1, Parag A Deshpande1
1Quantum and Molecular Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India.
Abstract:
The role of Mg2+ cofactor in orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRT) catalyzed synthesis of orotidine monophosphate (OMP) from phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) and orotate (OA) in substrate binding and the influence of the identity of the divalent metal ion on the reaction mechanism were addressed in this study using quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics framework. Energetics of migration and binding of different substrate complexes in the active site cavity was established. A quantitative analysis of various processes indicated the reaction pathway to consist of complexation of Mg2+ with PRPP, migration of Mg2+-PRPP and OA towards the active site, binding of OA to OPRT, and binding of Mg2+-PRPP complex to OA-OPRT complex. The mechanism of the reaction was unaltered by the change in the identity of divalent metal ion. Experimentally reported inhibiting character of Co2+ was explained on the basis of large Co2+-PRPP binding and migration energies. Mg2+, Ca2+, Mn2+, Co2+ and Zn2+ ions were screened computationally to assess their inhibiting/activating characteristics. Trends obtained by our computational investigations were in correspondence with experimentally reported trends.
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