Conformations of the iduronate ring in short heparin fragments described by time-averaged distance restrained molecular dynamics (tar-MD)

Munoz Garcia, Juan, Corzana, Francisco, de Paz, José L., Angulo, Jesus ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7250-5639 and Nieto, Pedro M. (2013) Conformations of the iduronate ring in short heparin fragments described by time-averaged distance restrained molecular dynamics (tar-MD). Glycobiology, 23 (11). pp. 1220-1229. ISSN 1460-2423

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Abstract

The polyconformational behavior of l-iduronic acid (L-IdoA2S) in heparin derivatives has been previously analyzed in terms of intra-ring proton-proton vicinal coupling constants ((3)JHH) through mathematical fit of experimental and theoretical values (Ferro DR, Provasoli A, Ragazzi M, Casu B, Torri G, Bossennec V, Perly B, Sinay P, Petitou M, Choay J. 1990. Conformer Populations of l-Iduronic Acid Residues in Glycosaminoglycan Sequences. Carbohydr Res. 195:157-167; Muñoz-García JC, López-Prados J, Angulo J, Díaz-Contreras I, Reichardt N, de Paz JL, Martín-Lomas M, Nieto PM. 2012. Effect of the substituents of the neighboring ring in the conformational equilibrium of iduronate in heparin-like trisaccharides. Chemistry. 18:16319-16331.). However, this methodology is subjected to the experimental uncertainties of the J-coupling measurements, the force field deviations and the goodness of the least-squares fit. In the present work, we have used time-averaged distance restrained molecular dynamics (tar-MD) to largely reduce these errors, which enables accurate quantification of the population of conformers, or puckers, of the L-IdoA2S residue, in a set of eight heparin-like trisaccharides following the general sequence d-glucosamine (GlcN)-IdoA-GlcN, directly from the time evolution of the puckering coordinates ? and . Thus, by carrying out tar-MD simulations in explicit water, with the exclusive nuclear overhauser enhancement (NOE)-derived distance H2-H5 of the L-IdoA2S (2)SO conformer as the unique imposed constraint, we have been able to accurately and easily determine the different extents to which the iduronate ring populates the polar ((1)C4 chair) and equatorial ((2)SO skew-boat) areas of the puckering sphere depending on the sulfation pattern of the flanking GlcN residues, under low temperature conditions (278 K). The results indicate that 6-O-sulfation at the reducing-end GlcN residue facilitates the (1)C4 to (2)SO transitions of the iduronate ring by augmenting the flexibility of the C2-C3 torsion, driving the conformational equilibrium toward a majority of equatorial conformers.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	heparin,iduronate,puckering,tar-md,conformational analysis
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Pharmacy
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Pharmaceutical Materials and Soft Matter
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	21 Oct 2013 15:52
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2023 01:01
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/43773
DOI:	10.1093/glycob/cwt058

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