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Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions
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Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions

Auteur : Rudolf K Allemann; Nigel S Scrutton
Éditeur : Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, ©2009.
Collection : RSC biomolecular sciences.
Édition/format :   Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
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Sitting at the interface between biology, chemistry and physics, this introduction to modern theories of enzyme catalysis presents the latest methods used to study quantum tunnelling in biological systems.
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Type d’ouvrage : Ressource Internet
Format : Livre, Ressource Internet
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Rudolf K Allemann; Nigel S Scrutton
ISBN : 9780854041220 0854041222
Numéro OCLC : 276224533
Description : xxv, 385 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contenu : Introduction. Preface: Beyond the Historical Perspective on Hydrogen and Electron Transfers. Chapter 1: The Transition State Theory Description of Enzyme Catalysis for Classically Activated Reactions: Introduction; Quantifying the Catalytic Activity of Enzymes; Free Energy Analysis of Enzyme Catalysis; Transition State Stabilisation or Ground State Destabilisation?; Selective Stabilisation of Transition Structures by Enzymes; Enzyme Flexibility and Dynamics. Chapter 2: Introduction to Quantum Behavior - A Primer: Introduction; Classical Mechanics; Quantum Mechanics; Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle; The Schrodinger Equation; Electronic Structure Calculations; Born-Oppenheimer Approximation; Hartree-Fock Theory; Basis sets; Zero-point Energy; Density Functional Theory; DFT Calculations of Free Energies of Activation of Enzyme Models; DFT Calculations of Kinetic Isotope Effects; Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Methods; Summary and Outlook. Chapter 3: Quantum Catalysis in Enzymes: Introduction; Theory; Variational Transition State Theory; The Transmission Coefficient; One-Dimensional Tunneling; Multidimensional Tunneling; Ensemble Averaging; Examples; Liver Alcohol Dehydrogenase; Dihydrofolate Reductase; Soybean-Lipoxygenase-1 and Methylmalonyl-CoA Mutase; Other Systems and Perspectives; Concluding Remarks. Chapter 4: Selected Theoretical Models and Computational Methods for Enzymatic Tunneling: Introduction; Vibronically Nonadiabatic Reactions: Proton-coupled Electron Transfer; Theory; Application to Lipoxygenase; Predominantly Adiabatic Reactions: Proton and Hydride Transfer; Theory; Application to Dihydrofolate Reductase; Emerging Concepts About Enzyme Catalysis. Chapter 5: Kinetic Isotope Effects from Hybrid Classical and Quantum Path Integral Computations: Introduction; Theoretical Background; Path Integral Quantum Transition State Theory; Centroid Path Integral Simulations; Kinetic Isotope Effects; Sequential Centroid Path Integral and Umbrella Sampling (PI/UM); The PI-FEP/UM Method; Kleinert's Variational Perturbation (KP) Theory; Potential Energy Surface; Combined QM/MM Potentials; The MOVB Potential; Computational Details; Illustrative Examples; Proton Transfer between Viscosity; Multiple Reactive Configurations and a Place for Single-Molecule Measurements. Chapter 10. Computational Simulations of Tunnelling Reactions in Enzymes; Introduction; Molecular Mechanical Methods; Quantum Mechanical Methods; Combined Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Methods; Improving Semiempirical QM Calculations; Calculation of Potential Energy Surfaces and Free Energy Surfaces; Simulation of the H-tunnelling Event; Calculation of H-tunnelling Rates and Kinetic Isotope Effects; Analysing Molecular Dynamics Trajectories; A Case Study: Aromatic Amine Dehydrogenase (AADH); Preparation of the System; Analysis of the H-tunnelling Step in AADH; Analysis of the Role of Promoting Motions in Driving Tunnelling; Comparison of Short-range Motions in AADH with Long Range Motions in Dihydrofolate Reductase; Summary. Chapter 11. Tunneling Does Not Contribute Significantly to Enzyme Catalysis, But Studying Temperature Dependence of Isotope Effects is Useful; Introduction; Methods; Simulating Temperature Dependence of KIEs in Enzymes; Concluding Remarks. Chapter 12: The Use of X-Ray Crystallography to Study Enzymic H-Tunnelling; Introduction; X-Ray Crystallography: A Brief Overview; Accuracy of X-Ray Diffraction Structures; Dynamic Information from X-Ray Crystallography; Examples of H-tunnelling Systems Studied by Crystallography; Crystallographic Studies of AADH Catalytic Mechanism; Crystallographic Studies of MR; Conclusions. Chapter 13: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Model Reactions for the Assessment of Tunneling in Enzymic Reactions; Model Reactions for Biochemical Processes; Model Reactions Relevant to Enzymic Tunneling; Isotope Effect Temperature Dependences and the Configurational-Search Framework (CSF) for their Interpretation; The Traditionally Dependent Category; The Underdependent Tunneling Category; The Overdependent Tunneling Category; Example 1. Hydride Transfer in a Thermophilic Alcohol Dehydrogenase; The Kirby-Walwyn Intramolecular Model Reaction; The Powell-Bruice Tunneling Model Reaction; Enzymic Tunneling in Alcohol Dehydrogenases; Model Reactions and the Catalytic Power of Alcohol Dehydrogenase; Example 2. Hydrogen-atom Transfer in Methylmalonyl Coenzyme A Mutase (MCM); Non-enzymic Tunneling in the Finke Model Reactions for MCM; Enzymic Tunneling in MCM; Model Reactions and MCM Catalytic Power; The Roles of Theory in the Comparison of Model and Enzymic Reactions; Model Reactions, Enzymic Accelerations, and Quantum Tunneling. Chapter 14: Long-Distance Electron Tunneling in Proteins: Introduction; Electronic Coupling and Tunneling Pathways; Direct Method; Avoided Crossing; Application of Koopmans' Theorem; Generalized Mulliken-Hush Method; The Propagator Method; Protein Pruning; Tunneling Pathways; The Method of Tunneling Currents; General Relations; Many-Electron Picture; Calculation of Current Density. Hartree-Fock Approximation; Interatomic Tunneling Currents; Many-Electron Aspects; One Tunneling Orbital (OTO) Approximation and Polarization Effects; The Limitation of the SCF Description of Many-Electron Tunneling; Correlation Effects. Polarization Cloud Dynamics. Beyond Hartree-Fock Methods; Quantum Interference Effects. Quantized Vertices; Electron Transfer or Hole Transfer? Exchange Effects; Dynamical Aspects.Chapter 15. Proton-coupled Electron Transfer: The Engine that Drives Radical Transport and Catalysis in Biology; Introduction; PCET Model Systems; Unidirectional PCET Networks; Bidirectional PCET Networks; PCET Biocatalysis; PCET in Enzymes: A Study of Ribonucleotide Reductase; The PCET Pathway in RNR; PCET in the ?2 Subunit of RNR; PCET in ?2 Subunit of RNR: PhotoRNRs; A Model for PCET in RNR; Concluding Remarks.
Titre de collection : RSC biomolecular sciences.
Responsabilité : edited by Rudolf K. Allemann, Nigel S. Scrutton.

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Quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions

Rudolf Allemann and Nigel Scrutton (Eds.)
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2009, 385pp, (HB) ISBN 9780854041220

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