title: Proton transfer function of carbonic anhydrase: Insights from QM/MM simulations.
abstract: Recent QM/MM analyses of proton transfer function of human carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) are briefly reviewed. The topics include a preliminary analysis of nuclear quadrupole coupling constant calculations for the zinc ion and more detailed analyses of microscopic pK(a) of the zinc-bound water and free energy profile for the proton transfer. From a methodological perspective, our results emphasize that performing sufficient sampling is essential to the calculation of all these quantities, which reflects the well solvated nature of CAII active site. From a mechanistic perspective, our analyses highlight the importance of electrostatics in shaping the energetics and kinetics of proton transfer in CAII for its function. We argue that once the pK(a) for the zinc-bound water is modulated to be in the proper range (approximately 7.0), proton transfer through a relatively well solvated cavity towards/from the protein surface (His64) does not require any major acceleration. Therefore, although structural details like the length of the water wire between the donor and acceptor groups still may make a non-negligible contribution, our computational results and the framework of analysis suggest that the significance of such "fine-tuning" is likely secondary to the modulation of pK(a) of the zinc-bound water. We encourage further experimental analysis with mutation of (charged) residues not in the immediate neighborhood of the zinc ion to quantitatively test this electrostatics based framework; in particular, Phi analysis based on these mutations may shed further light into the relative importance of the classical Grotthus mechanism and the "proton hole" pathway that we have proposed recently for CAII.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Demian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Riccardi
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Qiang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Cui
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D017136:Ion Transport; D011522:Protons; D045663:Quantum Dots; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D011522:Protons; D014867:Water; D002256:Carbonic Anhydrases
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