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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2012

Discrete molecular dynamics: an efficient and versatile simulation method for fine protein characterization.

David Shirvanyants, Feng Ding, Douglas Tsao, Srinivas Ramachandran, Nikolay V Dokholyan

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David ShirvanyantsDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Feng Ding
Douglas Tsao
Srinivas Ramachandran
Nikolay V Dokholyan

Funding

Protein Misfolding and AggregationR01GM080742 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOKHOLYAN, NIKOLAY · 2007 to 2015
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080742NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM080742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Until now it has been impractical to observe protein folding in silico for proteins larger than 50 residues. Limitations of both force field accuracy and computational efficiency make the folding problem very challenging. Here we employ discrete molecular dynamics (DMD) simulations with an all-atom force field to fold fast-folding proteins. We extend the DMD force field by introducing long-range electrostatic interactions to model salt-bridges and a sequence-dependent semiempirical potential accounting for natural tendencies of certain amino acid sequences to form specific secondary structures. We enhance the computational performance by parallelizing the DMD algorithm. Using a small number of commodity computers, we achieve sampling quality and folding accuracy comparable to the explicit-solvent simulations performed on high-end hardware. We demonstrate that DMD can be used to observe equilibrium folding of villin headpiece and WW domain, study two-state folding kinetics, and sample near-native states in ab initio folding of proteins of ∼100 residues.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProtein FoldingAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBacteriophage lambdaCattleChickensHumansMicrofilament ProteinsProteinsProtein Structure, SecondaryRepressor Proteinssrc Homology DomainsUbiquitinAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingMicrofilament Proteinsphage repressor proteinsProteinsRepressor ProteinsUbiquitinvillinViral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins

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PMID22280505
PMCPMC3406226

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