Sodium Binding Interactions with Aliphatic Amino Acids: A Guided Ion Beam and Computational Study.

Metal binding affinities play a vital role in medicinal, biological, and industrial applications. In particular, metal cation-amino acid (AA) interactions contribute to protein stability such that analyzing analogous prototypical interactions is important. Here, we present a full description of the interactions of sodium cations (Na+) and six aliphatic amino acids (AA), where AA = glycine (Gly), alanine (Ala), homoalanine (hAla), valine (Val), leucine (Leu), and isoleucine (Ile). Experimentally, these interactions are evaluated using threshold collision-induced dissociation carried out in a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer, allowing for the determination of the kinetic-energy-dependent behavior of Na+-AA dissociation. Analysis of these dissociation cross sections, after accounting for multiple ion-molecule collisions, internal energy of reactant ions, and unimolecular decay rates, allows the determination of absolute Na+-AA bond dissociation energies (BDEs) in kJ/mol of Gly (164.0), Ala (166.9), hAla (167.9), Val (172.7), Leu (173.7), and Ile (174.6). These are favorably compared to quantum chemical calculations conducted at the B3LYP, B3P86, MP2(full), B3LYP-GD3BJ, and M06-2X levels of theory. Our combination of structural and energetic analyses provides information regarding the specific factors responsible for Na+ interactions with amino acids. Specifically, we find that the BDEs increase linearly with increasing polarizability of the amino acid.

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