Abstract:
:Trying to answer the question posed in the title, we have carried out a detailed theoretical investigation of the biologically important mechanism of the tautomerization of the A·T Watson-Crick DNA base pair, information that is hard to establish experimentally. By combining theoretical investigations at the MP2 and density functional theory levels of QM theory with quantum theory of atoms in molecules analysis, the tautomerization of the A·T Watson-Crick base pair by the double proton transfer (DPT) was comprehensively studied in vacuo and in the continuum with a low dielectric constant (ϵ = 4) corresponding to a hydrophobic interfaces of protein-nucleic acid interactions. Based on the sweeps of the electron-topological, geometric, and energetic parameters, which describe the course of the tautomerization along its intrinsic reaction coordinate (IRC), it was proved that the A·T → A(∗)·T(∗) tautomerization through the DPT is a concerted (i.e. the pathway without an intermediate) and asynchronous (i.e. protons move with a time gap) process. The limiting stage of this phenomenon is the final PT along the N6H⋯O4 hydrogen bond (H-bond). The continuum with ϵ = 4 does not affect qualitatively the course of the tautomerization reaction: similar to that observed in vacuo, it proceeds via a concerted asynchronous process with the same structure of the transition state (TS). For the first time, the nine key points along the IRC of the A·T base pair tautomerization, which could be considered as electron-topological "fingerprints" of a concerted asynchronous process of the tautomerization via the DPT, have been identified and fully characterized. These nine key points have been used to define the reactant, TS, and product regions of the DPT in the A·T base pair. Considering the energy dependence of each of the three H-bonds, which stabilize the Watson-Crick and Löwdin's base pairs, along the IRC of the tautomerization, it was found that all these H-bonds in the А·Т base pair are cooperative, reinforcing each other, whereas the C2H⋯O2 H-bond in the А(∗)·Т(∗) base pair behaves anticooperatively, in other words it gets weakened while two others get strengthened. From a quantum-mechanical point of view, the A(∗)·T(∗) Löwdin's base pair appeared to be dynamically unstable because the electronic energy of the back-reaction barrier of the A·T → A(∗)·T(∗) tautomerization does not exceed zero-point vibrational energy associated with the mode for which vibrational frequency becomes imaginary in the TS of tautomerization. Additionally, it was demonstrated using the conductor-like polarizable continuum model that the effects of biomolecular environment (ϵ = 4) cannot ensure dynamic stabilization of the A(∗)·T(∗) Löwdin's base pair. These findings, together with data available from the literature, indicate that the tautomerization of the A·T Watson-Crick base pair to the A(∗)·T(∗) Löwdin's base pair through the DPT cannot be a source of spontaneous point errors that occur during DNA replication.
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J Biomol Struct Dynjournal_title
Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamicsauthors
Brovarets OO,Hovorun DMdoi
10.1080/07391102.2012.755795subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-01-01 00:00:00pages
127-54issue
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0739-1102issn
1538-0254journal_volume
32pub_type
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