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Title: Neutron crystallography for the study of hydrogen bonds in macromolecules

Abstract

The hydrogen bond (H bond) is one of the most important interactions that form the foundation of secondary and tertiary protein structure. Beyond holding protein structures together, H bonds are also intimately involved in solvent coordination, ligand binding, and enzyme catalysis. The H bond by definition involves the light atom, H, and it is very difficult to study directly, especially with X-ray crystallographic techniques, due to the poor scattering power of H atoms. Neutron protein crystallography provides a powerful, complementary tool that can give unambiguous information to structural biologists on solvent organization and coordination, the electrostatics of ligand binding, the protonation states of amino acid side chains and catalytic water species. The method is complementary to X-ray crystallography and the dynamic data obtainable with NMR spectroscopy. Also, as it gives explicit H atom positions, it can be very valuable to computational chemistry where exact knowledge of protonation and solvent orientation can make a large difference in modeling. Finally, this article gives general information about neutron crystallography and shows specific examples of how the method has contributed to structural biology, structure-based drug design; and the understanding of fundamental questions of reaction mechanisms.

Authors:
 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]
  1. European Spallation Source (ESS), Lund (Sweden); Lund Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. European Spallation Source (ESS), Lund (Sweden); Lund Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Biology
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Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC). Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
OSTI Identifier:
1352431
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-22132
Journal ID: ISSN 1420-3049
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Molecules
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1420-3049
Publisher:
MDPI
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Biological Science; neutron crystallography, protein structure

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Oksanen, Esko, Chen, Julian C., and Fisher, Zoe. Neutron crystallography for the study of hydrogen bonds in macromolecules. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.3390/molecules22040596.
Oksanen, Esko, Chen, Julian C., & Fisher, Zoe. Neutron crystallography for the study of hydrogen bonds in macromolecules. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040596
Oksanen, Esko, Chen, Julian C., and Fisher, Zoe. Fri . "Neutron crystallography for the study of hydrogen bonds in macromolecules". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules22040596. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352431.
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abstractNote = {The hydrogen bond (H bond) is one of the most important interactions that form the foundation of secondary and tertiary protein structure. Beyond holding protein structures together, H bonds are also intimately involved in solvent coordination, ligand binding, and enzyme catalysis. The H bond by definition involves the light atom, H, and it is very difficult to study directly, especially with X-ray crystallographic techniques, due to the poor scattering power of H atoms. Neutron protein crystallography provides a powerful, complementary tool that can give unambiguous information to structural biologists on solvent organization and coordination, the electrostatics of ligand binding, the protonation states of amino acid side chains and catalytic water species. The method is complementary to X-ray crystallography and the dynamic data obtainable with NMR spectroscopy. Also, as it gives explicit H atom positions, it can be very valuable to computational chemistry where exact knowledge of protonation and solvent orientation can make a large difference in modeling. Finally, this article gives general information about neutron crystallography and shows specific examples of how the method has contributed to structural biology, structure-based drug design; and the understanding of fundamental questions of reaction mechanisms.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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