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A Density Functional Theory and Information-Theoretic Approach Study of Interaction Energy and Polarizability for Base Pairs and Peptides

Version 1 : Received: 27 June 2022 / Approved: 6 July 2022 / Online: 6 July 2022 (03:04:51 CEST)

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Zhao, D.; Liu, S.; Chen, D. A Density Functional Theory and Information-Theoretic Approach Study of Interaction Energy and Polarizability for Base Pairs and Peptides. Pharmaceuticals 2022, 15, 938. Zhao, D.; Liu, S.; Chen, D. A Density Functional Theory and Information-Theoretic Approach Study of Interaction Energy and Polarizability for Base Pairs and Peptides. Pharmaceuticals 2022, 15, 938.

Abstract

Using density functional theory (DFT) and the information-theoretic approach (ITA) quantities to appreciate the energetics and properties of biopolymers is still an unaccomplished and ongoing task. To this end, we studied the building blocks of nucleic acid base pairs and small peptides. For base pairs, we have dissected the relative importance of energetic components by using two energy partition schemes in DFT. Our results convincingly show that the exchange-correlation effect predominantly governs the molecular stability of base pairs while the electrostatic potential plays a minor but indispensable role, and the steric effect is trivial. Furthermore, we have revealed that simple density-based ITA functions are in good relationships with molecular polarizabilities for a series of 30 hydrogen-bonded base pairs and all 20 natural α-amino acids, 400 dipeptides, and 8000 tripeptides. Based on these lines, one can easily predict the molecular polarizabilities of larger peptides, even proteins as long as the total molecular wavefunction is available, rather than solving the computationally demanding coupled-perturbed Hartree-Fock (CPHF) equation or its DFT counterpart coupled-perturbed Kohn-Sham (CPKS) equation.

Keywords

density functional theory (DFT); information-theoretic approach (ITA); base pairs; peptides; molecular polarizability

Subject

Chemistry and Materials Science, Theoretical Chemistry

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