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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2017

Validating the Water Flooding Approach by Comparing It to Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations.

Hanwool Yoon, Vesselin Kolev, Arieh Warshel

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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 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hanwool YoonDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California , 418 SGM Building, 3620 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90089-1062, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7761-4321
Vesselin KolevDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California , 418 SGM Building, 3620 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90089-1062, United States.
Arieh WarshelDepartment of Chemistry, University of Southern California , 418 SGM Building, 3620 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90089-1062, United States.
University of Southern California · US

Funding

Mechanistic Analysis of Pol Beta and Cancer-Associated MutantsU19CA105010 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI GOODMAN, MYRON · 2004 to 2012
$9.8M
THEORETICAL STUDIES OF ENZYMATIC REACTIONSR01GM024492 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI WARSHEL, ARIEH · 1985 to 2017
$5.0M
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF ELECTRON TRANSFER REACTIONSR01GM040283 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI WARSHEL, ARIEH · 1988 to 2016
$4.2M
NCI NIH HHS U19 CA105010NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM024492NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM040283
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study of the function of proteins on a quantitative level requires consideration of the water molecules in and around the protein. This requirement presents a major computational challenge due to the fact that the insertion of water molecules can have a very high activation barrier and would require a long simulation time. Recently, we developed a water flooding (WF) approach which is based on a postprocessing Monte Carlo ranking of possible water configurations. This approach appears to provide a very effective way for assessing the insertion free energies and determining the most likely configurations of the internal water molecules. Although the WF approach was used effectively in modeling challenging systems that have not been addressed reliably by other microscopic approaches, it was not validated by a comparison to the more rigorous grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) method. Here we validate the WF approach by comparing its performance to that of the GCMC method. It is found that the WF approach reproduces the GCMC results in well-defined test cases but does so much faster. This established the WF approach as a useful strategy for finding correct water configurations in proteins and thus to provide a powerful way for studies of the functions of proteins.

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Monte Carlo MethodAnimalsAprotininCattleMicrococcal NucleaseModels, ChemicalStaphylococcusWaterAprotininMicrococcal NucleaseWater

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PMID28911225
PMCPMC5954165
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