Cooperativity in bimetallic glutathione complexes

Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling
Sadhana KumbharMark P Waller

Abstract

Glutathione interacting with Au(+), Ag(+), and [HgMe](+) metal ions is investigated using density functional theory. An extensive conformational search shows that the sulfhydryl group of cysteine is the predominant binding motif for Au(+), Ag(+), and [HgMe](+). The order of binding affinities and binding free energies for the metal:ligand complexes are calculated at the B3LYP-D3(BJ)/def2-TZVP level of theory. Analysis of the gas-phase optimized structures has shown that the increase in the number of metal ions (1:1 → 2:1) during the complex formation with a single glutathione leads to a strong cooperative behavior. Conversely, anti-cooperativity is demonstrated in implicit solvation corrections as well as in explicit solvent corrections to the energies in the explicitly solvated-phase structures optimized using a density-based adaptive QM/MM methodology.

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