Impacts of QM region sizes and conformation numbers on modelling enzyme reactions: a case study of polyethylene terephthalate hydrolase
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Mingna Zheng, Yanwei Li, Qingzhu Zhang, Wenxing Wang
A quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach is a broadly used tool in computational enzymology. Treating the QM region with a high-level DFT method is one of the important branches. Here, taking leaf-branch compost cutinase-catalyzed polyethylene terephthalate depolymerization as an example, the convergence behavior of energy barriers as well as key structural and charge features with respect to the size of the QM region (up to 1000 atoms) is systematically investigated. BP86/6-31G(d)//CHARMM and M06-2X/6-311G(d,p)//CHARMM level of theories were applied for geometry optimizations and single-point energy calculations, respectively. Six independent enzyme conformations for all the four catalytic steps (steps (i)–(iv)) were considered. Most of the twenty-four cases show that at least 500 QM atoms are needed while only two rare cases show that ∼100 QM atoms are sufficient for convergence when only a single conformation was considered. This explains why most previous studies showed that 500 or more QM atoms are required while a few others showed that ∼100 QM atoms are sufficient for DFT/MM calculations. More importantly, average energy barriers and key structural/charge features from six conformations show an accelerated convergence than that in a single conformation. For instance, to reach energy barrier convergence (within 2.0 kcal mol−1) for step (ii), only ∼100 QM atoms are required if six conformations are considered while 500 or more QM atoms are needed with a single conformation. The convergence is accelerated to be more rapid if hundreds and thousands of conformations were considered, which aligns with previous findings that only several dozens of QM atoms are required for convergence with semi-empirical QM/MM MD simulations.
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