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La quiralidad inherente domina el espectro de CD visible / casi ultravioleta de la rodopsina
Gennaro Pescitelli1, Narasimha Sreerama, Piero Salvadori
1Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Via Risorgimento 35, I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|April 19, 2008
Resumen
Las bandas de dicroísmo circular (CD) visibles y cercanas al UV en la rodopsina surgen principalmente de la quiralidad inherente de la base de Schiff protonada del cromóforo retinal (retPSB). Las contribuciones de las interacciones con grupos de proteínas son menores, especialmente para la banda beta.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La biofísica es la biofísica.
- Química computacional es la química computacional.
- La espectroscopia es una técnica de espectroscopia.
Sus antecedentes:
- Los orígenes de las bandas de dicroísmo circular (CD) visibles (alfa) y cercanas al UV (beta) en la rodopsina siguen siendo objeto de debate.
- Específicamente, no está claro si estas bandas resultan de la quiralidad intrínseca de la base de Schiff protonada del cromóforo retinal (retPSB) o de las interacciones entre el cromóforo y los residuos de proteínas circundantes.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Determinar computacionalmente las contribuciones de la quiralidad intrínseca de los cromóforos y el acoplamiento de proteínas a los espectros de CD de la rodopsina.
- Para dilucidar la fuente primaria de las bandas alfa- y beta-CD observadas en la rodopsina.
Principales métodos:
- Calculó el CD intrínseco del cromóforo retPSB utilizando la teoría funcional de densidad dependiente del tiempo (TDDFT) y el método ZINDO.
- Empleó la teoría de la perturbación de primer orden para evaluar la influencia del acoplamiento entre las transiciones retPSB y las transiciones cromóforas de proteínas (pi-pi* y n-pi*).
- Realizó cálculos en ocho estructuras derivadas de cuatro estructuras cristalinas de rodopsina, con TDDFT en el Okada et al. (1U19) estructura que da los resultados más confiables.
Principales resultados:
- Las fuerzas de rotación intrínsecas para las bandas alfa y beta se calcularon como 0,62 +/- 0,00 DBM y 0,90 +/- 0,03 DBM, respectivamente.
- Se encontró que las contribuciones del acoplamiento con grupos de proteínas eran de -0.32 +/- 0.05 DBM para la banda alfa y -0.01 +/- 0.03 DBM para la banda beta.
- Los resultados indican que la quiralidad intrínseca del cromóforo retPSB es el factor dominante para ambas bandas de CD.
Conclusiones:
- Las bandas de CD visibles y cercanas al UV de la rodopsina están predominantemente determinadas por la quiralidad intrínseca del cromóforo retPSB.
- La contribución de los efectos de acoplamiento entre el cromóforo retPSB y los grupos de proteínas es significativamente menor para la banda alfa y insignificante para la banda beta.
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