The multiple dissociation constants of glutathione disulfide: interpreting experimental pH-titration curves with ab initio MD simulations. 2019

Vaishali Arunachalam, and Anil Kumar Tummanapelli, and Sukumaran Vasudevan
Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Bangalore, India. svipc@iisc.ac.in.

The hexapeptide glutathione disulfide (GSSG) has six ionizable groups with six associated dissociation constants. The experimentally measured pH-titration curve, however, does not exhibit the six corresponding equivalence points and bears little resemblance to standard textbook examples of acid-base pH-titration curves. The curve highlights the difficulties in determining multiple pKa values of polyprotic acids - typically proteins and peptides - from experiment. The six pKa values of GSSG can, however, be estimated using Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) simulations in conjunction with metadynamics sampling of the underlying free energy landscape of the dissociation reactions. Ab initio MD simulations were performed on a GSSG molecule solvated by 200 water molecules. Using the estimated pKa values the theoretical titration curve was calculated and found to be in good agreement with experiment. The results clearly highlight how dissociation constants estimated from ab initio MD simulations can facilitate the interpretation of the pH-titration curves of complex chemical and biological systems.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002623 Chemistry Techniques, Analytical Methodologies used for the isolation, identification, detection, and quantitation of chemical substances. Analytical Chemistry Techniques,Analytical Chemistry Methods,Analytical Chemistry Method,Analytical Chemistry Technique,Chemistry Method, Analytical,Chemistry Methods, Analytical,Chemistry Technique, Analytical,Method, Analytical Chemistry,Methods, Analytical Chemistry,Technique, Analytical Chemistry,Techniques, Analytical Chemistry
D003198 Computer Simulation Computer-based representation of physical systems and phenomena such as chemical processes. Computational Modeling,Computational Modelling,Computer Models,In silico Modeling,In silico Models,In silico Simulation,Models, Computer,Computerized Models,Computer Model,Computer Simulations,Computerized Model,In silico Model,Model, Computer,Model, Computerized,Model, In silico,Modeling, Computational,Modeling, In silico,Modelling, Computational,Simulation, Computer,Simulation, In silico,Simulations, Computer
D006863 Hydrogen-Ion Concentration The normality of a solution with respect to HYDROGEN ions; H+. It is related to acidity measurements in most cases by pH pH,Concentration, Hydrogen-Ion,Concentrations, Hydrogen-Ion,Hydrogen Ion Concentration,Hydrogen-Ion Concentrations
D019803 Glutathione Disulfide A GLUTATHIONE dimer formed by a disulfide bond between the cysteine sulfhydryl side chains during the course of being oxidized. GSSG,Glutathione Disulfide, Ion(1-),Glutathione, Oxidized,Disulfide, Glutathione,Oxidized Glutathione

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