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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2018

Computational Studies of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

Vy T Duong, Zihao Chen, Mahendra T Thapa, Ray Luo

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. B, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zihao Chen
Mahendra T ThapaDepartment of Physics , California State University , Chico, Chico , California 95929 , United States.

Funding

AMBER force field consortium: a coherent biomolecular simulation platformR01GM079383 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CIEPLAK, PIOTR, DUAN, YONG · 2007 to 2017
$4.7M
Mathematical, Computational and Systems BiologyT32EB009418 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LANDER, ARTHUR D, NIE, QING · 2009 to 2019
$2.4M
AMBER/PBSA: An Open-Source Computer Program for Accurate and Scalable Solvation Analysis ofBiomoleculesR01GM093040 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LUO, RAY · 2010 to 2018
$2.2M
NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB009418NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079383NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093040
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Frequently elusive to experimental characterizations, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) can be probed using molecular dynamics to provide detailed insight into their complex structure, dynamics, and function. However, previous computational studies were often found to disagree with experiment due to either force field biases or insufficient sampling. In this study, nine unstructured short peptides and the HIV-1 Rev protein were simulated and extended to microseconds to assess these limitations in IDP simulations. In short peptide simulations, a tested IDP-specific force field ff14IDPSFF outperforms its generic counterpart ff14SB as agreement of simulated NMR observables with experiment improves, though its advantages are not clear-cut in apo Rev simulations. It is worth noting that sampling is probably still not sufficient in the ff14SB simulations of apo Rev even if 10 ms have been collected. This indicates that enhanced sampling techniques would greatly benefit IDP simulations. Finally, detailed structural analyses of apo Rev conformations demonstrate different secondary structural preferences between ff14SB (helical) and ff14IDPSFF (random coil). A natural next step is to ask a more quantitative question: whether ff14SB is too ordered or ff14IDPSFF is too disordered in simulations of more complex IDPs such as Rev. This requires further quantitative analyses both experimentally and computationally.

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HIV-1Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsMolecular Dynamics SimulationPeptidesProtein Conformationrev Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsPeptidesrev Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virusrev protein, Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1

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PMID30372613
PMCPMC6249069

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