Title
Automatic determination of reaction mappings and reaction center information. 1. The imaginary transition state energy approach.
Abstract
Chemical reactions transform the reactant molecules by deleting existing and forming new bonds. The identification of these so-called reacting bonds is important for studying the reaction mechanism and for applications in metabolomics, e.g. for interpreting substrate labeling experiments. Here, we introduce an approach which suggests the simplest possible reaction center at the heavy atom level, with high accuracy. In contrast to current methods the approach is motivated by a simple theoretical model based on a crude approximation of the reaction energetics, and takes the complete reacting system into account. Finally, it recovers all optimal solutions to the problem while removing all symmetry-related, redundant solutions. We apply the method on the complete KEGG database of biochemical reactions, and compare our approach with previous methods. The resulting reaction centers are represented as imaginary transition states, which are molecule-like representations of reaction mechanisms. We provide the statistics of the calculations on the KEGG database and discuss some examples for the different types of alternative solutions found.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1021/ci7004324
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Keywords
Field
DocType
transition state,reaction center
Statistical physics,Molecule,Combinatorial chemistry,Atom,Theoretical physics,Transition state,Photosynthetic reaction centre,Biochemical reactions,Chemical reaction,Mathematics,Reaction mechanism
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
6
1549-9596
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.76
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Körner1554.83
Joannis Apostolakis21129.64