Quantum mechanical tunneling in methylamine dehydrogenase

We report a calculation for a trideuteration kinetic isotope effect (KIE) for the proton transfer step in the oxidation of methylamine by the quinoprotein methylamine dehydrogenase (MADH). The potential field includes 11 025 atoms, and the dynamics are based on a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) direct dynamics simulation and canonical variational transition state theory with small-curvature multidimensional tunneling contributions. About 1% of the reaction occurs by overbarrier processes, with the rest due to tunneling, and the calculated KIE is reduced to 5.9 when we omit tunneling. This provides the most striking evidence yet for the contribution of tunneling processes to enzymatic reactions at physiological temperatures.

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