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An Improved Diabatization Scheme for Computing the Electronic Circular Dichroism of Proteins

Rogers, David M.; Do, Hainam; Hirst, Jonathan D.

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Hainam Do



Abstract

We advance the quality of first-principles calculations of protein electronic circular dichroism (CD) through an amelioration of a key deficiency of a previous procedure that involved diabatization of electronic states on the amide chromophore (to obtain interamide couplings) in a β-strand conformation of a diamide. This yields substantially improved calculated far-ultraviolet (far-UV) electronic circular dichroism (CD) spectra for β-sheet conformations. The interamide couplings from the diabatization procedure for 13 secondary structural elements (13 diamide structures) are applied to compute the CD spectra for seven example proteins: myoglobin (α helix), jacalin (β strand), concanavalin A (β type I), elastase (β type II), papain (α + β), 310-helix bundle (310-helix) and snow flea antifreeze protein (polyproline). In all cases, except concanavalin A and papain, the CD spectra computed using the interamide couplings from the diabatization procedure yield improved agreement with experiment with respect to previous first-principles calculations.

Citation

Rogers, D. M., Do, H., & Hirst, J. D. (2024). An Improved Diabatization Scheme for Computing the Electronic Circular Dichroism of Proteins. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 128(30), 7350-7361. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02582

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 9, 2024
Online Publication Date Jul 22, 2024
Publication Date Aug 1, 2024
Deposit Date Jul 23, 2024
Publicly Available Date Jul 24, 2024
Journal Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Print ISSN 1520-6106
Electronic ISSN 1520-5207
Publisher American Chemical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 128
Issue 30
Pages 7350-7361
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02582
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/37536571
Publisher URL https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02582

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