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Large-scale QM/MM free energy simulations of enzyme catalysis reveal the influence of charge transfer

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
dc.contributor Kulik, Heather Janine
dc.creator Kulik, Heather Janine
dc.date 2018-08-24T14:24:36Z
dc.date 2018-08-24T14:24:36Z
dc.date 2018-06
dc.date 2018-07
dc.date 2018-08-22T15:04:38Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:06:08Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:06:08Z
dc.identifier 1463-9076
dc.identifier 1463-9084
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117500
dc.identifier Kulik, Heather J. “Large-Scale QM/MM Free Energy Simulations of Enzyme Catalysis Reveal the Influence of Charge Transfer.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 20, 31 (2018): 20650–20660
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9342-0191
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278752
dc.description Hybrid quantum mechanical-molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations provide key insights into enzyme structure-function relationships. Numerous studies have demonstrated that large QM regions are needed to systematically converge ground state, zero temperature properties with electrostatic embedding QM/MM. However, it is not well known if ab initio QM/MM free energy simulations have this same dependence, in part due to the hundreds of thousands of energy evaluations required for free energy estimations that in turn limit QM region size. Here, we leverage recent advances in electronic structure efficiency and accuracy to carry out range-separated hybrid density functional theory free energy simulations in a representative methyltransferase. By studying 200 ps of ab initio QM/MM dynamics for each of five QM regions from minimal (64 atoms) to one-sixth of the protein (544 atoms), we identify critical differences between large and small QM region QM/MM in charge transfer between substrates and active site residues as well as in geometric structure and dynamics that coincide with differences in predicted free energy barriers. Distinct geometric and electronic structure features in the largest QM region indicate that important aspects of enzymatic rate enhancement in methyltransferases are identified with large-scale electronic structure.
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dc.publisher Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8cp03871f
dc.relation Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
dc.source Royal Society of Chemistry
dc.title Large-scale QM/MM free energy simulations of enzyme catalysis reveal the influence of charge transfer
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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