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The free energy landscape for β hairpin folding in explicit water

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Zhou, Ruhong, Berne, Bruce J., Germain, Robert·2001·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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The folding free energy landscape of the C-terminal β hairpin of protein G has been explored in this study with explicit solvent under periodic boundary condition and oplsaa force field. A highly parallel replica exchange method that combines molecular dynamics trajectories with a temperature exchange Monte Carlo process is used for sampling with the help of a new efficient algorithm P3ME/RESPA. The simulation results show that the hydrophobic core and the β strand hydrogen bond form at roughly the same time. The free energy landscape with respect to various reaction coordinates is found to be rugged at low temperatures and becomes a smooth funnel-like landscape at about 360 K. In contrast to some very recent studies, no significant helical content has been found in our simulation at all temperatures studied. The β hairpin population and hydrogen-bond probability are in reasonable agreement with the experiment at biological temperature, but both decay more slowly than the experiment with temperature.

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Authors
Zhou, R., Berne, B. J., & Germain, R.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2001-12-18
Volume
98
Issue
26
Pages
14931-14936
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
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W2104414143
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478
References
1
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journal article
Language
en
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