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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2025

Development of Coarse-Grained Lipid Force Fields Based on a Graph Neural Network.

Zhenyu Liao, Ting Si, Tairan Wang, Ji-Jung Kai, Christophe Chipot, Jun Fan

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Zhenyu LiaoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong China.ORCID 0000-0001-9500-3420
Ting SiDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong China.ORCID 0000-0002-4291-9205
Tairan WangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong China.ORCID 0000-0002-0220-6059
Ji-Jung KaiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong China.ORCID 0000-0001-7848-8753
Christophe ChipotLaboratoire International Associé Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7019, Université de Lorraine, BP 70239, F-54506 Lorraine, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9122-1698
Jun FanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong China.ORCID 0000-0001-8227-9671

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Abstract

Coarse-grained (CG) lipid models enable efficient simulations of large-scale membrane events. However, achieving both speed and atomic-level accuracy remains challenging. Graph neural networks (GNNs) trained on all-atom (AA) simulations can serve as CG force fields, which have demonstrated success in CG simulations of proteins. Herein, we built data sets of AA simulations of DOPC, DOPS, and mixed DOPC/DOPS lipid bilayers and developed the first GNN-based CG lipid models based on the TorchMD-GN architecture. The CG lipid models reproduce the structural correlations of the AA simulations, accelerate the lipid dynamics by 9.4 times, and exhibit some degree of temperature transferability. Moreover, we demonstrate that training CG models on lipid bicelles enhances the performance of models in the lipid self-assembly and vesicle simulations. Our findings indicate that GNN-based CG lipid force fields show promise as a powerful approach for large-scale membrane simulations.

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Lipid BilayersLipidsMolecular Dynamics SimulationNeural Networks, ComputerGraph Neural NetworksLipid BilayersLipids

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