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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 111, Issue 26, Pages 5720-5728Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp0714217
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
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A new first-order procedure for locating transition structures (TS) that employs hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) potentials has been developed. This new technique (RPATh+RESD) combines the replica path method (RPATh) and standard reaction coordinate driving (RCD) techniques in an approach that both efficiently determines reaction barriers and successfully eliminates two key weaknesses of RCD calculations (i.e., hysteresis/discontinuities in the path and the sequential nature of the RCD procedure). In addition, we have extended CHARMM's QM/MM reaction pathway methods, the RPATh and nudged elastic band (NEB) methods, to incorporate SCC-DFTB wave functions. This newly added functionality has been applied to the chorismate mutase-catalyzed interconversion of chorismate to prephenate, which is a key step in the shikimate pathway of bacteria, fungi, and other higher plants. The RPATh+RESD barrier height (Delta E = 5.7 kcal/mol) is in good agreement with previous results from full-energy surface mapping studies (Zhang, X.; Zhang, X.; Bruice, T. C. Biochemistry 2005, 44, 10443-10448). Full reaction paths were independently mapped with RPATh and NEB methods and showed good agreement with the final transition state from the RPATh+RESD gold standard and previous high-level QM/MM transition states (Woodcock, H. L.; Hodoscek, M.; Gilbert, T. B.; Gill, P. M. W.; Schaefer, H. F.; Brooks, B. R. J. Comput. Chem. 2007, 28, 1485-1502). The SCC-DFTB TS geometry most closely approximates the MP2/6-31+G(d) QM/MM result. However, the barrier height is underestimated and possibly points to an area for improvement in SCC-DFTB parametrization. In addition, the steepest descents (SD) minimizer for the NEB method was modified to uncouple the in-path and off-path degrees of freedom during the minimization, which significantly improved performance. The convergence behavior of the RPATh and NEB was examined for SCC-DFTB wave functions, and it was determined that, in general, both methods converge at about the same rate, although the techniques used for convergence may be different. For instance, RPATh can effectively use the adopted basis Newton-Raphson (ABNR) minimizer, where NEB seems to require a combination of SD and ABNR.
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