Computational Studies on Water-Catalyzed Mechanisms for Stereoinversion of Glutarimide Intermediates Formed from Glutamic Acid Residues in Aqueous Phase
2019
Tomoki Nakayoshi | Shuichi Fukuyoshi | Koichi Kato | Eiji Kurimoto | Akifumi Oda
Aspartic acid (Asp) residues are prone to non-enzymatic stereoinversion, and Asp-residue stereoinversion is believed to be mediated via a succinimide (SI) intermediate. The stereoinverted Asp residues are believed to cause several age-related diseases. However, in peptides and proteins, few studies have reported the stereoinversion of glutamic acid (Glu) residues whose structures are similar to that of Asp. We previously presumed that Glu-residue stereoinversion proceeds via a glutarimide (GI) intermediate and showed that the calculated activation barriers of SI- and GI-intermediate stereoinversion are almost equivalent in the gas phase. In this study, we investigated the stereoinversion pathways of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">l</span>-GI intermediate in the aqueous phase using B3LYP density functional methods. The calculated activation barrier of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">l</span>-GI-intermediate stereoinversion in the aqueous phase was approximately 36 kcal·mol<sup>−1</sup>, which was much higher than that in the gas phase. Additionally, as this activation barrier exceeded that of Asp-residue stereoinversion, it is presumed that Glu-residue stereoinversion has a lower probability of proceeding under physiological conditions than Asp-residue stereoinversion.
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