Probabilistic Interpretation of NMR -Couplings Determines BI-BII State Equilibria in DNA.

Interpretation of NMR scalar spin-spin coupling constants in DNA becomes more reliable by including distinct structural states such as BI and BII, using the weighted-static or, better still, the recently implemented adiabatic-MD (Ad-MD) method. The calculation method employs an adiabatic ("Ad") dependence of coupling on NMR-assigned torsion angle, ε, weighted by (ε) probability distribution calculated by molecular dynamics (MD). Ad-MD calculations enable cross-validation of the bsc1, OL15, and OL21 force fields and various parametrizations of the Karplus equation describing the dependence of coupling on ε torsion (KE).

The Ad-MD method to calculate NMR shift including effects due to conformational dynamics: The P NMR shift in DNA.

A method for averaging of NMR parameters by molecular dynamics (MD) has been derived from the method of statistical averaging in MD snapshots, benchmarked and applied to structurally dynamic interpretation of the P NMR shift (δ ) in DNA phosphates. The method employs adiabatic dependence of an NMR parameter on selected geometric parameter(s) that is weighted by MD-calculated probability distribution(s) for the geometric parameter(s) (Ad-MD method). The usage of Ad-MD for polymers is computationally convenient when one pre-calculated structural dependence of an NMR parameter is employed for all chemically equivalent units differing only in dynamic behavior.

Structural interpretation of the P NMR chemical shifts in thiophosphate and phosphate: key effects due to spin-orbit and explicit solvent.

Structural interpretation of the 31P NMR shifts measured in O,O-diethyl thiophosphate (PT), 5,5-dimethyl-2-mercapto-1,3,2-dioxaphosphorinane 2-oxide (cPT), diethylphosphate (P) and 5,5-dimethyl-2-hydroxy-1,3,2-dioxaphosphinane 2-oxide (cP) was obtained by means of theoretical calculations including the effects of geometry, molecular dynamics, and solvent, relativistic effects and the effect of NMR reference. NMR calculations employed the B3LYP, BP86, BPW91, M06-2X, PBE0, MP2, and HF methods, the Iglo-n (n = II, III), cc-pVnZ (n = D, T, Q, 5), and pcS-n (n = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4) Gaussian-type basis sets and the Slater-type QZ4P atomic basis. Water solvent was described explicitly and/or implicitly.

The benchmark of P NMR parameters in phosphate: a case study on structurally constrained and flexible phosphate.

A benchmark for structural interpretation of the P NMR shift and the J NMR spin-spin coupling in the phosphate group was obtained by means of theoretical calculations and NMR measurements in diethylphosphate (DEP) and 5,5-dimethyl-2-hydroxy-1,3,2-dioxaphosphinane 2-oxide (cDEP). The NMR parameters were calculated employing the B3LYP, BP86, BPW91, M06-2X, PBE0, KT2, KT3, MP2, and HF methods, and the 6-31+G(d), Iglo-n (n = II, III), cc-pVnZ (n = D, T, Q, 5), aug-cc-pVnZ (n = D, T and Q), and pcS-n and pcJ-n (n = 1, 2, 3, 4) bases, including the solvent effects described with explicit water molecules and/or the implicit Polarizable Continuum Model (PCM). The effect of molecular dynamics (MD) on NMR parameters was MD-calculated using the GAFF force field inclusive of explicit hydration with TIP3P water molecules.

Benchmark Theoretical and Experimental Study on (15)N NMR Shifts of Oxidatively Damaged Guanine.

The (15)N NMR shifts of 9-ethyl-8-oxoguanine (OG) were calculated and measured in liquid DMSO and in crystal. The OG molecule is a model for oxidatively damaged 2'-deoxyguanosine that occurs owing to oxidative stress in cell. The DNA lesion is repaired with human 8-oxoguanine glycosylase 1 (hOGG1) base-excision repair enzyme, however, the exact mechanism of excision of damaged nucleobase with hOGG1 is currently unknown.