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Titration behavior of residues at the entrance of the D-pathway of cytochrome c oxidase from paracoccus denitrificans investigated by continuum electrostatic calculations.

ABSTRACT: Continuum electrostatic calculations were employed to investigate the titration curves of the fully oxidized state of wild type and several variants of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans (N131D, N131C, N131V, and D124N) for different values of the dielectric constant of the protein. The effects of the mutations at the entrance of the D-proton transfer pathway were found to be quite localized to their immediate surroundings. The results can be well interpreted in the light of the available biochemical and structural data and help understanding the effects of mutations on proton conductivity. The mutations of aspartic acid Asp-I-124 to a neutral residue resulted in a decreased pK(a) value of His-I-28 suggesting that the mutation of His-I-28 may have a significant influence on the coupling of electron and proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase. We also investigated the effect of the mutations N131D, N131C, and N131V on the residue Glu-I-278 in terms of its pK(a) value and electrostatic interaction energies.

SUBMITTER: Olkhova E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1366733 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Titration behavior of residues at the entrance of the D-pathway of cytochrome c oxidase from paracoccus denitrificans investigated by continuum electrostatic calculations.

Olkhova Elena E Helms Volkhard V Michel Hartmut H

Biophysical journal 20051001 4

Continuum electrostatic calculations were employed to investigate the titration curves of the fully oxidized state of wild type and several variants of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans (N131D, N131C, N131V, and D124N) for different values of the dielectric constant of the protein. The effects of the mutations at the entrance of the D-proton transfer pathway were found to be quite localized to their immediate surroundings. The results can be well interpreted in the light of the ...[more]

PMID: 16192282

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Project description:We investigate the influence of three common definitions of the solute/solvent dielectric boundary (DB) on the accuracy of the electrostatic solvation energy ?Gel computed within the Poisson Boltzmann and the generalized Born models of implicit solvation. The test structures include small molecules, peptides and small proteins; explicit solvent ?Gel are used as accuracy reference. For common atomic radii sets BONDI, PARSE (and ZAP9 for small molecules) the use of van der Waals (vdW) DB results, on average, in considerably larger errors in ?Gel than the molecular surface (MS) DB. The optimal probe radius ?w for which the MS DB yields the most accurate ?Gel varies considerably between structure types. The solvent accessible surface (SAS) DB becomes optimal at ?w ~ 0.2 Å (exact value is sensitive to the structure and atomic radii), at which point the average accuracy of ?Gel is comparable to that of the MS-based boundary. The geometric equivalence of SAS to vdW surface based on the same atomic radii uniformly increased by ?w gives the corresponding optimal vdW DB. For small molecules, the optimal vdW DB based on BONDI + 0.2 Å radii can yield ?Gel estimates at least as accurate as those based on the optimal MS DB. Also, in small molecules, pairwise charge-charge interactions computed with the optimal vdW DB are virtually equal to those computed with the MS DB, suggesting that in this case the two boundaries are practically equivalent by the electrostatic energy criteria. In structures other than small molecules, the optimal vdW and MS dielectric boundaries are not equivalent: the respective pairwise electrostatic interactions in the presence of solvent can differ by up to 5 kcal/mol for individual atomic pairs in small proteins, even when the total ?Gel are equal. For small proteins, the average decrease in pairwise electrostatic interactions resulting from the switch from optimal MS to optimal vdW DB definition can be mimicked within the MS DB definition by doubling of the solute dielectric constant. However, the use of the higher interior dielectric does not eliminate the large individual deviations between pairwise interactions computed within the two DB definitions. It is argued that while the MS based definition of the dielectric boundary is more physically correct in some types of practical calculations, the choice is not so clear in some other common scenarios.

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Titration behavior of residues at the entrance of the D-pathway of cytochrome c oxidase from paracoccus denitrificans investigated by continuum electrostatic calculations.

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Titration behavior of residues at the entrance of the D-pathway of cytochrome c oxidase from paracoccus denitrificans investigated by continuum electrostatic calculations.

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