Vibrational Analysis of Amino Acids and Short Peptides in Hydrated Media. IV. Amino Acids with Hydrophobic Side Chains: l-Alanine, l-Valin

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• 作者：Beln Hernndez^† ; ; Fernando Pflger^† ; ; Mama Nsangou^‡ ; ; Mahmoud Ghomi*^† ;
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：March 12, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：113
• 期：10
• 页码：3169-3178
• 全文大小：280K
• 年卷期：v.113,no.10(March 12, 2009)
• ISSN：1520-5207

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In the framework of our investigations on the analysis of vibrational spectra of amino acids (AAs) in hydrated media, Raman scattering and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) attenuated transmission reflectance (ATR) spectra of three α-amino acids with hydrophobic hydrocarbon side chains, i.e., alanine, valine, and isoleucine, were measured in H₂O and D₂O solutions. The present data complete those recently published by our group on glycine and leucine. This series of observed vibrational data gave us the opportunity to analyze the vibrational features of these amino acids in hydrated media by means of the density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP/6-31++G* level. Harmonic vibrational modes calculated after geometry optimization on the clusters containing five water molecules interacting with H-donor and H-acceptor sites of amino acids are performed and allowed the observed main Raman and infrared bands to be assigned. Additional calculations on a cluster formed by leucine (L) and five water (W) molecules and the comparison of the obtained data with those recently published by our group on L+12W, allowed us to justify the number of hydration considered in the present report.