How neocarcerand Octacid4 self-assembles with guests into irreversible noncovalent complexes and what accelerates the assembly

Author:

Pang Yuan-PingORCID

Abstract

AbstractCram’s supramolecular capsule Octacid4 can irreversibly and noncovalently self-assemble with small-molecule guests at room temperature, but how they self-assemble and what accelerates their assembly remain poorly understood. This article reports 81 distinct Octacid4•guest self-assembly pathways captured in unrestricted, unbiased molecular dynamics simulations. These pathways reveal that the self-assembly was initiated by the guest interaction with the cavity portal exterior of Octacid4 to increase the portal collisions that led to the portal expansion for guest ingress, and completed by the portal contraction caused by the guest docking inside the cavity to impede guest egress. The pathways also reveal that the self-assembly was accelerated by engaging populated host and guest conformations for the exterior interaction to increase the portal collision frequency. These revelations may help explain why the presence of an exterior binding site at the rim of the enzyme active site is a fundamental feature of fast enzymes such as acetylcholinesterase and why small molecules adopt local minimum conformations when binding to proteins. Further, these revelations suggest that irreversible noncovalent complexes with fast assembly rates could be developed—by engaging populated host and guest conformations for the exterior interactions—for materials technology, data storage and processing, molecular sensing and tagging, and drug therapy.

Funder

United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Materials Chemistry,Biochemistry,Environmental Chemistry,General Chemistry

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