* How the disulfide conformation determines the disulfide/thiol redox potential.
- Protein disulfides can adopt a wide variety of conformations, each having different energies. Limited experimental data suggest that disulfides adopting a high energy have an enhanced likelihood for reduction, but the exact nature of this relation is not clear. Using a computational approach, we give insight on the conformational dependence of the redox behavior of the disulfide bond, which relates structure to reactivity. The relative energy of different conformations of the diethyl disulfide model system correlates with the disulfide/thiol redox potential E°. Insight in the calculated redox potentials is obtained via quantitative molecular orbital theory, and via the decomposition of E° into a vertical electron affinity and a subsequent reorganization term. We have identified the determinants of the disulfide conformational energies and characterized the barrier to rotation around the disulfide bond. Our findings on the diethyl disulfide model system can be transferred to examples from the Protein Data Base. In conclusion, strained disulfide conformations with a high conformational energy have a large tendency to be reduced. Upon reduction, unfavorable interactions are released. This explains why reorganization effects and not a higher tendency to accept electrons account for the high reduction potential of high-energy disulfides.
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Overview of verb identify
The verb identify has 6 senses (first 6 from tagged texts)
1. (32) identify, place -- (recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She
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2. (7) name, identify -- (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some
other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the
scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months")
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refugees")
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biology, for example)
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Overview of adj identified
The adj identified has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) identified -- (having the identity known or established; "the identified bodies were released
for burial")
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