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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2017

Extension of the Highly Mobile Membrane Mimetic to Transmembrane Systems through Customized in Silico Solvents.

Josh V Vermaas, Taras V Pogorelov, Emad Tajkhorshid

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Josh V VermaasCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Taras V PogorelovCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Emad TajkhorshidCenter for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USNational Center for Supercomputing Applications · US

Funding

Synthetic Antigen Binder CoreU54GM087519 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI BEZANILLA, FRANCISCO J · 2010 to 2017
$31.9M
WHOLE CELL SIMULATIONP41RR005969 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI STONE, JOHN H · 1990 to 2011
$19.8M
WHOLE CELL SIMULATIONP41GM104601 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI TAJKHORSHID, EMAD · 2012 to 2021
$19.0M
System-Level Simulation of a Bioenergetic MembraneR01GM067887 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI TAJKHORSHID, EMAD · 2003 to 2018
$4.0M
Molecular Mechanisms of Active Transport Across Cellular MembranesR01GM086749 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI TAJKHORSHID, EMAD · 2009 to 2013
$1.5M
NCRR NIH HHS P41 RR005969NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM104601NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM067887NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM086749NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM087519
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mechanics of the protein-lipid interactions of transmembrane proteins are difficult to capture with conventional atomic molecular dynamics, due to the slow lateral diffusion of lipids restricting sampling to states near the initial membrane configuration. The highly mobile membrane mimetic (HMMM) model accelerates lipid dynamics by modeling the acyl tails nearest to the membrane center as a fluid organic solvent while maintaining an atomic description of the lipid headgroups and short acyl tails. The HMMM has been applied to many peripheral protein systems; however, the organic solvent used to date caused deformations in transmembrane proteins by intercalating into the protein and disrupting interactions between individual side chains. We ameliorate the effect of the solvent on transmembrane protein structure through the development of two new in silico Lennard-Jones solvents. The parameters for the new solvents were determined through an extensive parameter search in order to match the bulk properties of alkanes in a highly simplified model. Using these new solvents, we substantially improve the insertion free energy profiles of 10 protein side chain analogues across the entire bilayer. In addition, we reduce the intercalation of solvent into transmembrane systems, resulting in native-like transmembrane protein structures from five different topological classes within a HMMM bilayer. The parametrization of the solvents, in addition to their computed physical properties, is discussed. By combining high lipid lateral diffusion with intact transmembrane proteins, we foresee the developed solvents being useful to efficiently identify membrane composition inhomogeneities and lipid binding caused by the presence of membrane proteins.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationComputer SimulationLipidsMembrane ProteinsSolventsThermodynamicsLipidsMembrane ProteinsSolvents

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PMID28241729
PMCPMC5558153
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