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Comparison of protein solution structures refined by molecular dynamics simulation in vacuum, with a generalized born model, and with explicit water

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  • Tsui, Vickie, Ph.D. in Biology, Scripps Research 1996 - 2001

authors

  • Xia, B.
  • Tsui, Vickie
  • Case, David A.
  • Dyson, Jane
  • Wright, Peter

publication date

  • April 2002

journal

  • Journal of Biomolecular NMR  Journal

abstract

  • The inclusion of explicit solvent water in molecular dynamics refinement of NMR structures ought to provide the most physically meaningful accounting for the effects of solvent on structure, but is computationally expensive. In order to evaluate the validity of commonly used vacuum refinements and of recently developed continuum solvent model methods, we have used three different methods to refine a set of NMR solution structures of a medium sized protein, Escherichia coli glutaredoxin 2, from starting structures calculated using the program DYANA. The three different refinement protocols used molecular dynamics simulated annealing with the program AMBER in vacuum (VAC), including a generalized Born (GB) solvent model, and a full calculation including explicit solvent water (WAT). The structures obtained using the three methods of refinements were very similar, a reflection of their generally well-determined nature. However, the structures refined with the generalized Born model were more similar to those from explicit water refinement than those refined in vacuum. Significant improvement was seen in the percentage of backbone dihedral angles in the most favored regions of phi, psi space and in hydrogen bond pattern for structures refined with the GB and WAT models, compared with the structures refined in vacuum. The explicit water calculation took an average of 200 h of CPU time per structure on an SGI cluster, compared to 15-90 h for the GB calculation (depending on the parameters used) and 2 h for the vacuum calculation. The generalized Born solvent model proved to be an excellent compromise between the vacuum and explicit water refinements, giving results comparable to those of the explicit water calculation. Some improvement for phi and psi angle distribution and hydrogen bond pattern can also be achieved by energy minimizing the vacuum structures with the GB model, which takes a much shorter time than MD simulations with the GB model.

subject areas

  • Computer Simulation
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • Glutaredoxins
  • Hydrogen Bonding
  • Models, Molecular
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Oxidoreductases
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Proteins
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Solvents
  • Vacuum
  • Water
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keywords

  • hydrogen bond
  • solvent refinement
  • structure determination method
  • structure refinement
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0925-2738

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1023/a:1014929925008

PubMed ID

  • 12018480
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 317

end page

  • 331

volume

  • 22

issue

  • 4

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