QM/MM Study of the Conversion of Oxophlorin into Verdoheme by Heme Oxygenase
Alavi, Fatemeh Sadat ; Zahedi, Mansour ; Safari, Nasser and Ryde, Ulf LU
(2017)
In Journal of Physical Chemistry B
121(51).
p.11427-11436
- Abstract
Heme oxygenase is an enzyme that degrades heme, thereby recycling iron in most organisms, including humans. Pervious density functional theory (DFT) calculations have suggested that iron(III) hydroxyheme, an intermediate generated in the first step of heme degradation by heme oxygenase, is converted to iron(III) superoxo oxophlorin in the presence of dioxygen. In this article, we have studied the detailed mechanism of conversion of iron(III) superoxo oxophlorin to verdoheme by using combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations. The calculations employed the B3LYP method and the def2-QZVP basis set, considering dispersion effects with the DFT-D3 approach, obtaining accurate energies with large QM regions of... (More)
Heme oxygenase is an enzyme that degrades heme, thereby recycling iron in most organisms, including humans. Pervious density functional theory (DFT) calculations have suggested that iron(III) hydroxyheme, an intermediate generated in the first step of heme degradation by heme oxygenase, is converted to iron(III) superoxo oxophlorin in the presence of dioxygen. In this article, we have studied the detailed mechanism of conversion of iron(III) superoxo oxophlorin to verdoheme by using combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations. The calculations employed the B3LYP method and the def2-QZVP basis set, considering dispersion effects with the DFT-D3 approach, obtaining accurate energies with large QM regions of almost 1000 atoms. The reaction was found to be exothermic by -35 kcal/mol, with a rate-determining barrier of 19 kcal/mol in the doublet state. The protein environment and especially water in the enzyme pocket significantly affects the reaction by decreasing the reaction activation energies and changing the structures by providing strategic hydrogen bonds.
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- author
- Alavi, Fatemeh Sadat
; Zahedi, Mansour
; Safari, Nasser
and Ryde, Ulf
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-12-28
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Journal of Physical Chemistry B
- volume
- 121
- issue
- 51
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- The American Chemical Society (ACS)
- external identifiers
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- pmid:29090581
- scopus:85040107215
- ISSN
- 1520-6106
- DOI
- 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b08332
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 20ef0f74-1b98-482f-b0eb-53cb441dfa31
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abstract = {{<p>Heme oxygenase is an enzyme that degrades heme, thereby recycling iron in most organisms, including humans. Pervious density functional theory (DFT) calculations have suggested that iron(III) hydroxyheme, an intermediate generated in the first step of heme degradation by heme oxygenase, is converted to iron(III) superoxo oxophlorin in the presence of dioxygen. In this article, we have studied the detailed mechanism of conversion of iron(III) superoxo oxophlorin to verdoheme by using combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations. The calculations employed the B3LYP method and the def2-QZVP basis set, considering dispersion effects with the DFT-D3 approach, obtaining accurate energies with large QM regions of almost 1000 atoms. The reaction was found to be exothermic by -35 kcal/mol, with a rate-determining barrier of 19 kcal/mol in the doublet state. The protein environment and especially water in the enzyme pocket significantly affects the reaction by decreasing the reaction activation energies and changing the structures by providing strategic hydrogen bonds.</p>}},
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title = {{QM/MM Study of the Conversion of Oxophlorin into Verdoheme by Heme Oxygenase}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/42439779/226_fatima2.pdf}},
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