Gas-Phase Chemical Dynamics Simulations on the Bifurcating Pathway of the Pimaradienyl Cation Rearrangement: Role of Enzymatic Steering in Abietic Acid Biosynthesis

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1212-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Siebert ◽  
Paranjothy Manikandan ◽  
Rui Sun ◽  
Dean J. Tantillo ◽  
William L. Hase





2016 ◽  
Vol 407 ◽  
pp. 40-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giae Lee ◽  
Eunkyung Park ◽  
Heesun Chung ◽  
Yannick Jeanvoine ◽  
Kihyung Song ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 869-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Jeanvoine ◽  
Antonio Largo ◽  
William L. Hase ◽  
Riccardo Spezia


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Weber ◽  
Martin McCullagh

<p>pH-switchable, self-assembling materials are of interest in biological imaging and sensing applications. Here we propose that combining the pH-switchability of RXDX (X=Ala, Val, Leu, Ile, Phe) peptides and the optical properties of coumarin creates an ideal candidate for these materials. This suggestion is tested with a thorough set of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. We first investigate the dependence of pH-switchabiliy on the identity of the hydrophobic residue, X, in the bare (RXDX)<sub>4</sub> systems. Increasing the hydrophobicity stabilizes the fiber which, in turn, reduces the pH-switchabilty of the system. This behavior is found to be somewhat transferable to systems in which a single hydrophobic residue is replaced with a coumarin containing amino acid. In this case, conjugates with X=Ala are found to be unstable and both pHs while conjugates with X=Val, Leu, Ile and Phe are found to form stable β-sheets at least at neutral pH. The (RFDF)<sub>4</sub>-coumarin conjugate is found to have the largest relative entropy value of 0.884 +/- 0.001 between neutral and acidic coumarin ordering distributions. Thus, we posit that coumarin-(RFDF)<sub>4</sub> containing peptide sequences are ideal candidates for pH-sensing bioelectronic materials.</p>



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