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Man VH, He X, Nguyen PH, Sagui C, Roland C, Xie XQ, Wang J. Unpolarized laser method for infrared spectrum calculation of amide I CO bonds in proteins using molecular dynamics simulation. Comput Biol Med 2023; 159:106902. [PMID: 37086661 PMCID: PMC10186340 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 03/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/09/2023] [Indexed: 04/24/2023]
Abstract
The investigation of the strong infrared (IR)-active amide I modes of peptides and proteins has received considerable attention because a wealth of detailed information on hydrogen bonding, dipole-dipole interactions, and the conformations of the peptide backbone can be derived from the amide I bands. The interpretation of experimental spectra typically requires substantial theoretical support, such as direct ab-initio molecular dynamics simulation or mixed quantum-classical description. However, considering the difficulties associated with these theoretical methods and their applications are limited in small peptides, it is highly desirable to develop a simple yet efficient approach for simulating the amide I modes of any large proteins in solution. In this work, we proposed a comprehensive computational method that extends the well-established molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method to include an unpolarized IR laser for exciting the CO bonds of proteins. We showed the amide I frequency corresponding to the frequency of the laser pulse which resonated with the CO bond vibration. At this frequency, the protein energy and the CO bond length fluctuation were maximized. Overall, the amide I bands of various single proteins and amyloids agreed well with experimental data. The method has been implemented into the AMBER simulation package, making it widely available to the scientific community. Additionally, the application of the method to simulate the transient amide I bands of amyloid fibrils during the IR laser-induced disassembly process was discussed in details.
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- Viet Hoang Man
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- CNRS, Université Paris Cité, UPR9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, 13 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8202, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8202, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261, USA.
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Man VH, Wang J, Derreumaux P, Nguyen PH. Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of infrared laser-induced dissociation of a tetrameric Aβ42 β-barrel in a neuronal membrane model. Chem Phys Lipids 2020; 234:105030. [PMID: 33347835 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2020.105030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Experimental studies have reported that the amyloid-β proteins can form pores in cell membranes, and this could be one possible source of toxicity in Alzheimer's disease. Dissociation of these pores could therefore be a potential therapeutic approach. It is known that high photon density free-electron laser experiments and laser-induced nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations (NEMD) can dissociate amyloid fibrils at specific frequencies in vitro. Our question is whether NEMD simulations can dissociate amyloid pores in a bilayer mimicking a neuronal membrane, and as an example, we select a tetrameric Aβ42 β-barrel. Our simulations shows that the resonance between the laser field and the amide I vibrational mode of the barrel destabilises all intramolecular and intermolecular hydrogen bonds of Aβ42 and converts the β-barrel to a random/coil disordered oligomer. Starting from this disordered oligomer, extensive standard MD simulations shows sampling of disordered Aβ42 states without any increase of β-sheet and reports that the orientational order of lipids is minimally disturbed. Interestingly, the frequency to be employed to dissociate this beta-barrel is specific to the amino acid sequence. Taken together with our previous simulation results, this study indicates that infrared laser irradiation can dissociate amyloid fibrils and oligomers in bulk solution and in a membrane environment without affecting the surrounding molecules, offering therefore a promising way to retard the progression of AD.
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- Viet Hoang Man
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; Faculty of Pharmacy, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
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- CNRS, Université de Paris, UPR9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Paris, France; Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, PSL Research University, Paris, France.
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Kawasaki T, Man VH, Sugimoto Y, Sugiyama N, Yamamoto H, Tsukiyama K, Wang J, Derreumaux P, Nguyen PH. Infrared Laser-Induced Amyloid Fibril Dissociation: A Joint Experimental/Theoretical Study on the GNNQQNY Peptide. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:6266-6277. [PMID: 32560588 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c05385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Neurodegenerative diseases are usually characterized by plaques made of well-ordered aggregates of distinct amyloid proteins. Dissociating these very stable amyloid plaques is a critical clinical issue. In this study, we present a joint mid-infrared free electron laser experiment/nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation to understand the dissociation process of a representative example GNNQQNY fibril. By tuning the laser frequency to the amide I band of the fibril, the resonance takes place and dissociation is occurred. With the calculated and observed wide-angle X-ray scattering profiles and secondary structures before and after laser irradiation being identical, we can propose a dissociation mechanism with high confidence from our simulations. We find that dissociation starts in the core of the fibrils by fragmenting the intermolecular hydrogen bonds and separating the peptides and then propagates to the fibril extremities leading to the formation of unstructured expanded oligomers. We suggest that this should be a generic mechanism of the laser-induced dissociation of amyloid fibrils.
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- Takayasu Kawasaki
- IR-FEL Research Center, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Organization for Research Advancement, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan
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- Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center, 250-3 minamiyamaguchi-cho, Seto-shi, 489-0965, Japan
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- Aichi Synchrotron Radiation Center, 250-3 minamiyamaguchi-cho, Seto-shi, 489-0965, Japan
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- IR-FEL Research Center, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Organization for Research Advancement, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.,Faculty of Pharmacy, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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- Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS, Université de Paris, UPR9080, Paris, France.,Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Dharuman G, Verboncoeur J, Christlieb A, Murillo MS. Atomic bound state and scattering properties of effective momentum-dependent potentials. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:043205. [PMID: 27841554 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.043205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Effective classical dynamics provide a potentially powerful avenue for modeling large-scale dynamical quantum systems. We have examined the accuracy of a Hamiltonian-based approach that employs effective momentum-dependent potentials (MDPs) within a molecular-dynamics framework through studies of atomic ground states, excited states, ionization energies, and scattering properties of continuum states. Working exclusively with the Kirschbaum-Wilets (KW) formulation with empirical MDPs [C. L. Kirschbaum and L. Wilets, Phys. Rev. A 21, 834 (1980)0556-279110.1103/PhysRevA.21.834], optimization leads to very accurate ground-state energies for several elements (e.g., N, F, Ne, Al, S, Ar, and Ca) relative to Hartree-Fock values. The KW MDP parameters obtained are found to be correlated, thereby revealing some degree of transferability in the empirically determined parameters. We have studied excited-state orbits of electron-ion pair to analyze the consequences of the MDP on the classical Coulomb catastrophe. From the optimized ground-state energies, we find that the experimental first- and second-ionization energies are fairly well predicted. Finally, electron-ion scattering was examined by comparing the predicted momentum transfer cross section to a semiclassical phase-shift calculation; optimizing the MDP parameters for the scattering process yielded rather poor results, suggesting a limitation of the use of the KW MDPs for plasmas.
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- Gautham Dharuman
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
- Computational Physics and Methods Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544, USA
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Man VH, Pan F, Sagui C, Roland C. Comparative melting and healing of B-DNA and Z-DNA by an infrared laser pulse. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:145101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4945340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Viet Hoang Man
- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA
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- Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8202, USA
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