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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2025

NMR-Derived Salt Bridges in Insulin Analogue: Resolving Artifactual Overbinding in Molecular Dynamics via Charge Scaling.

Ngoc Lan Le Nguyen, Jiří Žák, Pavel Jungwirth, Martin Lepšík

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Ngoc Lan Le NguyenInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic.ORCID 0009-0009-8639-1244
Jiří ŽákInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
Pavel JungwirthInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-6892-3288
Martin LepšíkInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo nám. 542, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-2607-8132

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Abstract

Salt bridges are ionic interactions that are of great importance in protein recognition. However, their structural description using X-ray crystallography or NMR may be inconclusive. Classical molecular dynamics (MD) used for the interpretation neglects electronic polarization, which results in artifactual overbinding. Here, we resolve the problem via charge scaling, which accounts for electronic polarization in a mean-field way. We study three salt bridges in insulin analogue. New NMR ensembles are generated via NOE-restrained MD using ff19SB and CHARMM36m force fields and the scaled-charge prosECCo75. Tens of μs of unrestrained MD show in a statistically converged manner that ff19SB induces a non-native salt bridge. This behavior is quantified via umbrella sampling of salt bridge dissociation, which indicates a rather high strength of up to 4 and 5 kcal mol

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