The effect of local substrate motion on quantum hydrogen transfer in soybean lipoxygenase-1 modeled with QTES-DFTB dynamics

James W. Mazzuca, Sophya Garashchuk, Jacek Jakowski

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Abstract

The motion of local substrate nuclei is incorporated into the quantum hydrogen transfer reaction which occurs in the active site of soybean lipoxygenase-1, modeled within a quantum trajectory (QT) framework. Interactions within the active site are obtained from on-the-fly electronic structure (ES) calculations at the density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) level. By selectively constraining substrate nuclei, changes in the rate constants and kinetic isotope effect are computed over a 100 K temperature range. Substrate motion, occurring on the time-scale of the hydrogen transfer, enhances both the rate constants and isotope effect, but does not change trends captured in a constrained substrate environment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)104-109
Number of pages6
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume613
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 3 2014
Externally publishedYes

Funding

This material is based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. CHE-1056188 and CHE-1048629 , as well as EPSCoR GEAR:CI (J.M. and S.G.). Additional support was provided by the National Science Foundation Grant No. APRA-NSF-EPS-0919436 (J.J.). The XSEDE allocation TG-DMR110037 for time on Kraken at the National Institute for Computational Sciences is also acknowledged.

FundersFunder number
EPSCoR GEARAPRA-NSF-EPS-0919436
National Science FoundationCHE-1056188, CHE-1048629, 1048629, 1056188

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