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Constant pH Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics in Explicit Solvent Using Discrete Protonation States: Implementation, Testing, and Validation

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Swails, Jason M., York, Darrin M., Roitberg, Adrian E.·2014·Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

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Abstract By utilizing Graphics Processing Units, we show that constant pH molecular dynamics simulations (CpHMD) run in Generalized Born (GB) implicit solvent for long time scales can yield poor pKa predictions as a result of sampling unrealistic conformations. To address this shortcoming, we present a method for performing constant pH molecular dynamics simulations (CpHMD) in explicit solvent using a discrete protonation state model. The method involves standard molecular dynamics (MD) being propagated in explicit solvent followed by protonation state changes being attempted in GB implicit solvent at fixed intervals. Replica exchange along the pH-dimension (pH-REMD) helps to obtain acceptable titration behavior with the proposed method. We analyzed the effects of various parameters and settings on the titration behavior of CpHMD and pH-REMD in explicit solvent, including the size of the simulation unit cell and the length of the relaxation dynamics following protonation state changes. We tested the method with the amino acid model compounds, a small pentapeptide with two titratable sites, and hen egg white lysozyme (HEWL). The proposed method yields superior predicted pKa values for HEWL over hundreds of nanoseconds of simulation relative to corresponding predicted values from simulations run in implicit solvent.

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Authors
Swails, J. M., York, D. M., & Roitberg, A. E.
Venue
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Published
2014-02-25
Volume
10
Issue
3
Pages
1341-1352
ISSN
  • 1549-9618 (ISSN-L)
  • 1549-9626
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W2032427406
Cited by
268
References
40
FWCI
5.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Swails, J. M., York, D. M., & Roitberg, A. E. (2014). Constant pH Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics in Explicit Solvent Using Discrete Protonation States: Implementation, Testing, and Validation. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. https://doi.org/10.1021/ct401042b

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