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ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2020

A fast and high-quality charge model for the next generation general AMBER force field.

Xibing He, Viet H Man, Wei Yang, Tai-Sung Lee, Junmei Wang

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Article in The Journal of chemical physics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 367 papers.

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5 authors.

Xibing HeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.ORCID 0000000174317893
Viet H ManDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.ORCID 0000000289076479
Wei YangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA.ORCID 0000000245203253
Tai-Sung LeeLaboratory for Biomolecular Simulation Research, Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, and Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.ORCID 0000000321102279
Junmei WangDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.ORCID 0000000296078229

Funding

NIDA Center of Excellence OF Computational Drug Abuse Research (CDAR)P30DA035778 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET, XIE, XIANG-QUN · 2014 to 2018
$5.4M
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
Next-generation integrated quantum force fields for biomedical applicationsR01GM107485 · NIGMS · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI Darrin M York · 2015 to 2026
$3.8M
Understanding Protein-Ligand RecogntionR01GM111886 · NIGMS · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, WEI · 2014 to 2018
$1.5M
Free Energy Sampling of Long-Timescale Biomolecular DynamicsR01GM124621 · NIGMS · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, WEI · 2020 to 2023
$1.4M
NIDA NIH HHS P30 DA035778NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079383NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM107485NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM111886NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124621
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The General AMBER Force Field (GAFF) has been broadly used by researchers all over the world to perform in silico simulations and modelings on diverse scientific topics, especially in the field of computer-aided drug design whose primary task is to accurately predict the affinity and selectivity of receptor-ligand binding. The atomic partial charges in GAFF and the second generation of GAFF (GAFF2) were originally developed with the quantum mechanics derived restrained electrostatic potential charge, but in practice, users usually adopt an efficient charge method, Austin Model 1-bond charge corrections (AM1-BCC), based on which, without expensive ab initio calculations, the atomic charges could be efficiently and conveniently obtained with the ANTECHAMBER module implemented in the AMBER software package. In this work, we developed a new set of BCC parameters specifically for GAFF2 using 442 neutral organic solutes covering diverse functional groups in aqueous solution. Compared to the original BCC parameter set, the new parameter set significantly reduced the mean unsigned error (MUE) of hydration free energies from 1.03 kcal/mol to 0.37 kcal/mol. More excitingly, this new AM1-BCC model also showed excellent performance in the solvation free energy (SFE) calculation on diverse solutes in various organic solvents across a range of different dielectric constants. In this large-scale test with totally 895 neutral organic solvent-solute systems, the new parameter set led to accurate SFE predictions with the MUE and the root-mean-square-error of 0.51 kcal/mol and 0.65 kcal/mol, respectively. This newly developed charge model, ABCG2, paved a promising path for the next generation GAFF development.

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PMID32962378
PMCPMC7728379

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