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Quantum refinement with multiple conformations : Application to the P-cluster in nitrogenase
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- Cao, Lili (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Beräkningskemi,Enheten för fysikalisk och teoretisk kemi,Kemiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Computational Chemistry,Physical and theoretical chemistry,Department of Chemistry,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- Ryde, Ulf (författare)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Beräkningskemi,Enheten för fysikalisk och teoretisk kemi,Kemiska institutionen,Institutioner vid LTH,Lunds Tekniska Högskola,Computational Chemistry,Physical and theoretical chemistry,Department of Chemistry,Departments at LTH,Faculty of Engineering, LTH
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- 2020
- 2020
- Engelska 12 s.
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Ingår i: Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural Biology. - 2059-7983. ; 76, s. 1145-1156
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Abstract
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- X-ray crystallography is the main source of atomistic information on the structure of proteins. Normal crystal structures are obtained as a compromise between the X-ray scattering data and a set of empirical restraints that ensure chemically reasonable bond lengths and angles. However, such restraints are not always available or accurate for nonstandard parts of the structure, for example substrates, inhibitors and metal sites. The method of quantum refinement, in which these empirical restraints are replaced by quantum-mechanical (QM) calculations, has previously been suggested for small but interesting parts of the protein. Here, this approach is extended to allow for multiple conformations in the QM region by performing separate QM calculations for each conformation. This approach is shown to work properly and leads to improved structures in terms of electron-density maps and real-space difference density Z-scores. It is also shown that the quality of the structures can be gauged using QM strain energies. The approach, called ComQumX-2QM, is applied to the P-cluster in two different crystal structures of the enzyme nitrogenase, i.e. an Fe 8 S 7 Cys 6 cluster, used for electron transfer. One structure is at a very high resolution (1.0 Å) and shows a mixture of two different oxidation states, the fully reduced P N state (Fe 8 2+, 20%) and the doubly oxidized P 2+ state (80%). In the original crystal structure the coordinates differed for only two iron ions, but here it is shown that the two states also show differences in other atoms of up to 0.7 Å. The second structure is at a more modest resolution, 2.1 Å, and was originally suggested to show only the one-electron oxidized state, P 1+. Here, it is shown that it is rather a 50/50% mixture of the P 1+ and P 2+ states and that many of the Fe - Fe and Fe - S distances in the original structure were quite inaccurate (by up to 0.8 Å). This shows that the new ComQumX-2QM approach can be used to sort out what is actually seen in crystal structures with dual conformations and to give locally improved coordinates.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi -- Teoretisk kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences -- Theoretical Chemistry (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- crystallographic refinement
- multiple conformations
- nitrogenase
- P-cluster
- quantum refinement
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