Abstract:
:Combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations are carried out to analyze factors that dictate the proton transfer in carbonic anhydrase II (CAII), an enzyme that has been used as a prototypical example of long-range proton transfers in biomolecules. In contrast to the long-held conjecture in the experimental literature, the computed potentials of mean force (PMF) suggest that the proton transfer in CAII is not very sensitive to the orientation of the acceptor group (His 64) and, therefore, the number of water molecules that bridge the donor (zinc-water) and acceptor groups. Perturbative analysis indicates that a series of polar and charged residues close to the transfer pathways make the dominant contribution to the barrier and exothermicity of the proton transfer reaction, thus supporting the proposal from previous studies of Warshel and co-workers using a somewhat simpler QM/MM model that electrostatic interactions play a major role in the proton transfer in CAII. The PMF results are in striking contrast to previous analysis using the same QM/MM method but an ensemble of minimum energy path (MEP) calculations, which found a steep dependence of the barrier height on the number of bridging water molecules. Analysis of the configurations sampled in the PMF and MEP simulations suggests that this difference arises because the PMF simulations sample a largely stepwise mechanism while the local MEP calculations artificially favored concerted transfers due to the specific protocol used to generate the initial configurations. Therefore, this study presents a compelling argument for carrying out proper conformational sampling in the study of long-range proton transfers. Finally, we illustrate that Phi analysis, which has been widely used in protein folding studies, can potentially generate new mechanistic information for long-range proton transfers regarding the sequence of events. The results of the perturbation analysis and the Phi analysis provide opportunities for experimentally testing the mechanistic proposals from this study and our recent work in which a stepwise "proton hole" transfer pathway has been proposed.
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Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Riccardi D,König P,Guo H,Cui Qdoi
10.1021/bi701950jsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-02-26 00:00:00pages
2369-78issue
8eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
47pub_type
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