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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 143, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4935176
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21303057, 21433004]
- Shanghai Putuo District Grant [2014-A-02]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20130076120019]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Recent advance in biophysics has made it possible to directly measure site-specific electric field at internal sites of proteins using molecular probes with C=O or C N groups in the context of vibrational Stark effect. These measurements directly probe changes of electric field at specific protein sites due to, e.g., mutation and are very useful in protein design. Computational simulation of the Stark effect based on force fields such as AMBER and OPLS, while providing good insight, shows large errors in comparison to experimental measurement due to inherent difficulties associated with point charge based representation of force fields. In this study, quantum mechanical calculation of protein's internal electrostatic properties and vibrational Stark shifts was carried out by using electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation with conjugate caps method. Quantum calculated change of mutation-induced electric field and vibrational Stark shift is reported at the internal probing site of enzyme human aldose reductase. The quantum result is in much better agreement with experimental data than those predicted by force fields, underscoring the deficiency of traditional point charge models describing intra-protein electrostatic properties. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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