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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2015

Problems of robustness in Poisson-Boltzmann binding free energies.

Robert C Harris, Travis Mackoy, Marcia O Fenley

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Computational Design of PDZ-Peptide Binding.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  9. Reconciling the understanding of 'hydrophobicity' with physics-based models of proteins.Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal · 2016
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  10. Examining the assumptions underlying continuum-solvent models.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2015
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3 authors.

Robert C HarrisSealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0304, United States
Travis Mackoy
Marcia O Fenley

Funding

Theory of Proteins and Peptides in SolutionR01GM037657 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI PETTITT, BERNARD MONTGOMERY · 1988 to 2023
$5.5M
Advanced Electrostatic Computation in Molecular DynamicsR44GM073391 · NIGMS · CONTINUUM DYNAMICS, INC. · PI BOSCHITSCH, ALEXANDER H · 2010 to 2011
$739k
NIGMS NIH HHS 5R44GM073391-03NIGMS NIH HHS GM-037657NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM037657NIGMS NIH HHS R44 GM073391
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although models based on the Poisson–Boltzmann (PB) equation have been fairly successful at predicting some experimental quantities, such as solvation free energies (ΔG), these models have not been consistently successful at predicting binding free energies (ΔΔG). Here we found that ranking a set of protein–protein complexes by the electrostatic component (ΔΔGel) of ΔΔG was more difficult than ranking the same molecules by the electrostatic component (ΔGel) of ΔG. This finding was unexpected because ΔΔGel can be calculated by combining estimates of ΔGel for the complex and its components with estimates of the ΔΔGel in vacuum. One might therefore expect that if a theory gave reliable estimates of ΔGel, then its estimates of ΔΔGel would be reliable. However, ΔΔGel for these complexes were orders of magnitude smaller than ΔGel, so although estimates of ΔGel obtained with different force fields and surface definitions were highly correlated, similar estimates of ΔΔGel were often not correlated.

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ThermodynamicsPoisson DistributionStatic ElectricitySurface Properties

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PMID26528091
PMCPMC4610304

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