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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 21, Issue 23, Pages 8554-8560Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406466
Keywords
amino acids; bioorganic chemistry; density functional calculations; enzyme models; iodine
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- Universita della Calabria
- Commissione Europea, Fondo Sociale Europeo, Regione Calabria
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This paper deals with a systematic density functional theory (DFT) study aiming to unravel the mechanism of the thyroxine (T4) conversion into 3,3,5-triiodothyronine (rT3) by using different bio-inspired naphthyl-based models, which are able to reproduce the catalytic functions of the type-3 deiodinase ID-3. Such naphthalenes, having two selenols, two thiols, and a selenol-thiol pair in peri positions, which were previously synthesized and tested in their deiodinase activity, are able to remove iodine selectively from the inner ring of T4 to produce rT3. Calculations were performed including also an imidazole ring that, mimicking the role of the His residue, plays an essential role deprotonating the selenol/thiol moiety. For all the used complexes, the calculated potential energy surfaces show that the reaction proceeds via an intermediate, characterized by the presence of a XIC (X=Se, S) halogen bond, whose transformation into a subsequent intermediate in which the CI bond is definitively cleaved and the incipient XI bond is formed represents the rate-determining step of the whole process. The calculated trend in the barrier heights of the corresponding transition states allows us to rationalize the experimentally observed superior deiodinase activity of the naphthyl-based compound with two selenol groups. The role of the peri interactions between chalcogen atoms appears to be less prominent in determining the deiodination activity.
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