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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 13, 期 6, 页码 2987-3004出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00126
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Superoxide reductase is a mononuclear iron enzyme involved in superoxide radical detoxification in some bacteria. Its catalytic mechanism is associated with the remarkable formation of a ferric hydroperoxide Fe3+ -OOH intermediate, which is specifically protonated on its proximal oxygen to generate the reaction product H2O2. Here, we present a computational study of the protonation mechanism of the Fe3+ -OOH intermediate, at different levels of theory. This was performed on the whole system (solvated protein) using well tempered metadynamics at the QM/MM (B3LYP/AmberFF99SB) level. Enabled by the development of a new set of force field parameters for the active site, a conformational MM study of the Fe3+ -OOH species gave insights into its solvation pattern, in addition to generating,the two starting conformations for the ab initio metadynamics setup. Two different protonation mechanisms for the Fe3+ -OOH intermediate.have been found depending on the starting structure. Whereas a possible mechanism involves at first the protonation of the hydroperoxide ligand and then dissociation of H2O2, the most probable one starts with an unexpected dissociation of the HOO- ligand from the iron, followed by its protonation. This favored reactivity was specifically linked to the influence of both the nearby conserved lysine 48 residue and the microsolvatation on-the charge distribution of the oxygens of the HOO- ligand. These data highlight the crucial role of the whole environment, solvent, and protein, to describe accurately this second protonation step in superoxide reductase. This is clearly not possible with smaller models unable to reproduce correctly the mechanistically determinant charge distribution.
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