Contributors

Maciej Szalenieci
Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 8 Niezapominajek Street, 30-239 Krakow
Marcel Swart
ICREA, Barcelona, and Universitat de Girona, Spain

References

Electronic Structure Investigation and Parametrization of Biologically Relevant Iron-Sulfur Clusters
Alexandra T. P. Carvalho, Marcel Swart , J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2014, 54, 613.

The application of classical molecular dynamics simulations to the study of metalloenzymes has been hampered by the lack of suitable molecular mechanics force field parameters to treat the metal centers within standard biomolecular simulation packages. These parameters cannot be generalized, nor be easily automated, and hence should be obtained for each system separately. Here we present density functional theory calculations on [Fe2S2(SCH3)4]2+/+, [Fe3S4(SCH3)3]+/0 and [Fe4S4(SCH3)4]2+/+ and the derivation of parameters that are compatible with the AMBER force field. Molecular dynamics simulations performed using these parameters on respiratory Complex II of the electron transport chain showed that the reduced clusters are more stabilized by the protein environment, which leads to smaller changes in bond lengths and angles upon reduction. This effect is larger in the smaller ironsulfur cluster, [Fe2S2(SCH3)4]2+/+.

Comments

Parameters were collated by Maciej Szalenic for use in modelling nitrate reducatase, NapA, the remaining Mo-pterin parameters of which are also available on the Amber parameter database.
The [Fe4S4]2+(Cys)4 cluster was taken from Carvahlo et al. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2014, 54, 2, 613620 https://doi.org/10.1021/ci400718m [doi.org] with corrections provided in 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00390 [pubs.acs.org]; and the remaining nonbonded parameters were taken from Rappe, A.K., et al. JACS 1992, 114, 10024

The parameters work provided the following scheme is used:

Names

Types

The corresponding cysteines CyA-D connect with Fe1-4, respectively.
Here is a final PDB so one can get an orientation on how the various parts link together.


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