Journal
ACS OMEGA
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 3758-3767Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c06600
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) [U1430117, U1230201]
- Science Challenge Project [TZ2016001]
- NSFC [11174201, 11572160]
- National Key Laboratory Fund for Shock Wave and Detonation Physics Research of the CAEP [2016-LSD-Z-06]
- Science and Technology Development Foundation of CAEP [2012A0201007, 2013B0101002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11802281]
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This study investigates the conformational change of oxytocin under different electric fields and finds that the direction of the electric field can transform the conformation from cis to trans. The trans conformation has a tighter secondary spatial structure, stronger hydrogen bonds, and a more stable disulfide bond compared to the cis conformation.
It is reported that the cis/trans conformation change of the peptide hormone oxytocin plays an important role in its receptors and activation and the cis conformation does not lead to antagonistic activity. Motivated by recent experiments and theories, the quasi-static amide-I 2D IR spectra of oxytocin are investigated using DFT/B3LYP (D3)/6-31G (d, p) in combination with the isotope labeling method under different electric fields. The theoretical amide-I IR spectra and bond length of the disulfide bond are consistent with the experimental values, which indicates that the theoretical modes are reasonable. Our theoretical results demonstrate that the oxytocin conformation is transformed from the cis conformation to the trans conformation with the change of the direction of the electric field, which is confirmed by the distance of the backbone carbonyl oxygen of Cys6 and Pro7, the Ramachandran plot of Cys6 and Pro7, the dihedral angle of C-beta-S-S-C-beta, and the rmsd of the oxytocin backbone. Moreover, the trans conformation as the result of the turn in the vicinity of Pro7 has a tighter secondary spatial structure than the cis conformation, including stronger hydrogen bonds, longer gamma-turn geometry involving five amino acids, and a more stable disulfide bond. Our work provides new insights into the relationship between the conformation, the activation of the peptide hormone oxytocin, and the electric fields.
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