title: Conformational effects on the circular dichroism of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II: a multilevel computational study.
abstract: Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a powerful method for investigating conformational changes in proteins and therefore has numerous applications in structural and molecular biology. Here a computational investigation of the CD spectrum of the Human Carbonic Anhydrase II (HCAII), with main focus on the near-UV CD spectra of the wild-type enzyme and it seven tryptophan mutant forms, is presented and compared to experimental studies. Multilevel computational methods (Molecular Dynamics, Semiempirical Quantum Mechanics, Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory) were applied in order to gain insight into the mechanisms of interaction between the aromatic chromophores within the protein environment and understand how the conformational flexibility of the protein influences these mechanisms. The analysis suggests that combining CD semi empirical calculations, crystal structures and molecular dynamics (MD) could help in achieving a better agreement between the computed and experimental protein spectra and provide some unique insight into the dynamic nature of the mechanisms of chromophore interactions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. christo.christov@northumbria.ac.uk
authors.forename: Tatyana G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Karabencheva-Christova
authors.forename: Uno
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Carlsson
authors.forename: Kia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Balali-Mood
authors.forename: Gary W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Christo Z
authors.initials: CZ
authors.lastname: Christov
mesh_terms: D024402:Carbonic Anhydrase II / Q000737:chemistry*; D002942:Circular Dichroism / Q000379:methods*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003460:Crystallization; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes; D024402:Carbonic Anhydrase II