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In silico simulation of silver and copper ions interacting with fungal cell wall.

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In vitro antifungal activity of copper ions and silver ions.

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Annotation

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The interaction of silver and copper ions with chitin dimers was modelled using quantum chemistry within the DFT framework.

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A variation of parameters of hydrogen bonds depending on the presence of different metal atoms was obtained.

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This variation was compared with the results of in vitro study of antifungal activity of corresponding metal ions.

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Introduction

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Silver has long been known to serve as antibacterial and antifungal agent.

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Out of all the metals with similar antimicrobial properties, silver has the least toxicity to human cells.

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Prior to the introduction of modern antibiotics, silver was commonly used in medical treatments.

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The exact mechanism of antifungal activity is still unknown, and is currently the subject of many research.

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There is three suggested qualitative concepts: DNA association, cell wall damage and deactivation of enzymes.

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On the molecular level it is known that silver is capable to form a bond with S, N, and O atoms, and also to catalyze the formation of disulfide bonds.

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The new computational quantum chemistry methods make it possible to directly simulate biochemical processes which involve large molecules.

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In this work the interaction of silver and copper ions with chitin dimers was modelled using the DFT theory.

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Methods

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Fungal cell wall simulated as two chitin dimers.

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To obtain the optimized geometry of ground state, several DFT codes were used, including PC GAMESS, SIESTA and ABINIT.

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Pic. 1. Conceptual map of DFT method.

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To find the most probable area of metal adsorption on a molecule, Fukui functions scheme was used.

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Pic. 2. Visualisation of a scalar electrophilic Fukui function, mapped onto the isosurface of electron density field for detection of probable adsorption site.

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Electron density of ground state chitin system with adsorbed metal atoms was projected on atomic sites, responsible for hydrogen bond formation, using Hirshfeld method.

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Calculations were performed on Linux-cluster using parallel MPI (MPICH2) и SMP (OpenMP) parallel paradigms.

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In silico calculations were complemented by in vitro assay, in which we compared antifungal activity of silver and copper ions in the same concentrations against Alternaria alternata.

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Results

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Chitin dimers form the hydrogen bonds with each other, and there is a variability of parameters of that bond depending on type of adsorbed atom near bond.

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Adsorbed silver atom increases the symmetry of H-bond, measured by the difference of projected charges on oxygen atoms, involved in H-bond, whereas copper atom decreases that symmetry, comparing to the original system without any metal.

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Pic. 3. Ground state geometry of chitin dimers with silver atoms adsorded. Hydrogen bonds are shown by dash lines.

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Projected atomic charge is shown near atom.

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Pic. 4. Difference between the effects of adsorbed copper and silver on hydrogen bonds between chitin dimers.

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Arrow depicts the polarity of Me-O bond.

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Tab. 1. Calculated values of hydrogen bond parameters for original system and system witth metal atoms.

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System

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Total charge

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Length

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H-bond

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Charge of farthest oxygen atom

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Charge of nearest oxygen atom

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Charge of metal atom

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Charge on hydrogen atom

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Chitin

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Chitin + Ag

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Chitin + Cu

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In vitro study shows increased antifungal activity of silver comparing with copper in the same concentration.

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Fig. 1. Growth dynamic of Alternaria alternata under two different silver and copper ions concentrations. С1 = 25 microg/ml (by metal mass) и С2 = 2.5 microg/ml (by metal mass).

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Conclusion

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The interaction with cell wall and the effect on the mechanical properties of its chitin skeleton could take part in antifungal mechanism of silver ions.

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It correlates with observed low toxicity of silver for animal cells.

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