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ArticlePloS one2015

Constrained Unfolding of a Helical Peptide: Implicit versus Explicit Solvents.

Hailey R Bureau, Dale R Merz, Eli Hershkovits, Stephen Quirk, Rigoberto Hernandez

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Article in PloS one, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hailey R BureauCenter for Computational and Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States of America.
Dale R MerzCenter for Computational and Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States of America.
Eli HershkovitsCenter for Computational and Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States of America.
Stephen QuirkKimberly-Clark Corporation, Atlanta, GA 30076-2199, United States of America.
Rigoberto HernandezCenter for Computational and Molecular Science and Technology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States of America.

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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Steered Molecular Dynamics (SMD) has been seen to provide the potential of mean force (PMF) along a peptide unfolding pathway effectively but at significant computational cost, particularly in all-atom solvents. Adaptive steered molecular dynamics (ASMD) has been seen to provide a significant computational advantage by limiting the spread of the trajectories in a staged approach. The contraction of the trajectories at the end of each stage can be performed by taking a structure whose nonequilibrium work is closest to the Jarzynski average (in naive ASMD) or by relaxing the trajectories under a no-work condition (in full-relaxation ASMD--namely, FR-ASMD). Both approaches have been used to determine the energetics and hydrogen-bonding structure along the pathway for unfolding of a benchmark peptide initially constrained as an α-helix in a water environment. The energetics are quite different to those in vacuum, but are found to be similar between implicit and explicit solvents. Surprisingly, the hydrogen-bonding pathways are also similar in the implicit and explicit solvents despite the fact that the solvent contact plays an important role in opening the helix.

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Amino Acid SequenceHydrogen BondingMolecular Dynamics SimulationPeptidesProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein UnfoldingSolventsThermodynamicsWaterPeptidesSolventsWater

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PMID25970521
PMCPMC4430545

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