Atropisomerism of the Asn α Radicals Revealed by Ramachandran Surface Topology

Gerlei Z., Klára and Jákli, Imre and Szőri, Milán and Jensen, Svend J. Knak and Viskolcz, Béla and Csizmadia, G. Imre and Perczel, András (2013) Atropisomerism of the Asn α Radicals Revealed by Ramachandran Surface Topology. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B - CONDENSED MATTER MATERIALS SURFACES INTERFACES AND BIOPHYSICAL, 117. pp. 12402-12409. ISSN 1520-6106

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Abstract

C radicals are typically trigonal planar and thus achiral, regardless of whether they originate from a chiral or an achiral C-atom (e.g., C−H + •OH → C• + H2O). Oxidative stress could initiate radical formation in proteins when, for example, the H-atom is abstracted from the Cα-carbon of an amino acid residue. Electronic structure calculations show that such a radical remains achiral when formed from the achiral Gly,or the chiral but small Ala residues. However, when longer side-chain containing proteogenic amino acid residues are studied (e.g., Asn), they provide radicals of axis chirality, which in turn leads to atropisomerism observed for the first time for peptides. The two enantiomeric extended backbone structures, •βL and •βD, interconvert via a pair of enantiotopic reaction paths, monitored on a 4D Ramachandran surface, with two distinct transition states of very different Gibbs-free energies: 37.4 and 67.7 kJ/mol, respectively. This discovery requires the reassessment of our understanding on radical formation and their conformational and stereochemical behavior. Furthermore, the atropisomerism of proteogenic amino acid residues should affect our understanding on radicals in biological systems and, thus, reframes the role of the D-residues as markers of molecular aging.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia > QD02 Physical chemistry / fizikai kémia Q Science / természettudomány > QD Chemistry / kémia > QD04 Organic chemistry / szerves kémia
Depositing User:	Dóra K. Menyhárd
Date Deposited:	31 Jan 2014 15:27
Last Modified:	31 Jan 2014 15:27
URI:	http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/9526

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