Abstract
AbstractElectrostatic calculations have been carried out on a number of structural conformers of tuna cytochrome c Conformers were generated using molecular dynamics simulations with a range of solvent simulating, macroscopic dielectric formalisms, and one solvent model that explicitly included solvent water molecules. Structures generated using the lowest dielectric models were relatively tight, with‐side chains collapsed on the surface, while those from the higher dielectric modelshad more internal and external fluidity, with surface side chains exploring a fuller range of conformational space. The average structure generated with the explicitly solvated model corresponded most closely with the crystal structure. Individual pK values, overall titration curves, and electrostatic potential surfaces were calculated for average structures and along each simulation. Differences between structural conformers within each simulation give rise to substantial changes in calculated local electrostatic interactions, resulting in pK value fluctuations for individual sites in the protein that very by 0.3–2.0 pK units from the calculated time average. These variations are due to the thermal side chain reorientations that produce fluctuations in charge site separations. Properties like overall titration curves and pH dependent stability are not as sensitive to side chain fluctuations within a simulation, but there are substantial effects between simulation due to markeddifferences in average side chain behavior. These findings underscore the importance of proper dielectric formalism in molecular dynamics simulations when used to generate alternate solution structures from a crystal structure, and suggest that conformers significantly removed from the averagestructure have altered electrostatic properties that may prove important inepisodic protein properties such as catalysis.
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Created | 20 years, 2 months ago (May 28, 2005, 9:02 p.m.) |
Deposited | 1 year, 10 months ago (Oct. 22, 2023, 3:22 p.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year, 9 months ago (Oct. 31, 2023, 4 p.m.) |
Issued | 36 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1989) |
Published | 36 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1989) |
Published Online | 21 years, 6 months ago (Feb. 3, 2004) |
Published Print | 36 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 1, 1989) |
@article{Wendoloski_1989, title={Molecular dynamics effects on protein electrostatics}, volume={5}, ISSN={1097-0134}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.340050407}, DOI={10.1002/prot.340050407}, number={4}, journal={Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Wendoloski, John J. and Matthew, James B.}, year={1989}, month=jan, pages={313–321} }