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The Structure of the Protonated Serine Octamer

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Marianski,  Mateusz
Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Warnke,  Stephan
Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Baldauf,  Carsten
Theory, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Helden,  Gert von
Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Seo,  Jongcheol
Molecular Physics, Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society;

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Scutelnic, V., Perez, M. A. S., Marianski, M., Warnke, S., Gregor, A., Rothlisberger, U., et al. (2018). The Structure of the Protonated Serine Octamer. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(24), 7554-7560. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b02118.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-6ABE-3
Abstract
The amino acid serine has long been known to form a protonated “magic-number” cluster containing eight monomer units that shows an unusually high abundance in mass spectra and has a remarkable homochiral preference. Despite many experimental and theoretical studies, there is no consensus on a Ser8H+ structure that is in agreement with all experimental observations. Here, we present the structure of Ser8H+ determined by a combination of infrared spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The three-dimensional structure that we determine is ∼25 kcal mol-1 more stable than the previous most stable published structure and explains both the homochiral preference and the experimentally observed facile replacement of two serine units.