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Exploring the parameter space of the coarse-grained UNRES force field by random search: selecting a transferable medium-resolution force field.


ABSTRACT: We explored the energy-parameter space of our coarse-grained UNRES force field for large-scale ab initio simulations of protein folding, to obtain good initial approximations for hierarchical optimization of the force field with new virtual-bond-angle bending and side-chain-rotamer potentials which we recently introduced to replace the statistical potentials. 100 sets of energy-term weights were generated randomly, and good sets were selected by carrying out replica-exchange molecular dynamics simulations of two peptides with a minimal alpha-helical and a minimal beta-hairpin fold, respectively: the tryptophan cage (PDB code: 1L2Y) and tryptophan zipper (PDB code: 1LE1). Eight sets of parameters produced native-like structures of these two peptides. These eight sets were tested on two larger proteins: the engrailed homeodomain (PDB code: 1ENH) and FBP WW domain (PDB code: 1E0L); two sets were found to produce native-like conformations of these proteins. These two sets were tested further on a larger set of nine proteins with alpha or alpha + beta structure and found to locate native-like structures of most of them. These results demonstrate that, in addition to finding reasonable initial starting points for optimization, an extensive search of parameter space is a powerful method to produce a transferable force field.

SUBMITTER: He Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2760447 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Exploring the parameter space of the coarse-grained UNRES force field by random search: selecting a transferable medium-resolution force field.

He Yi Y   Xiao Yi Y   Liwo Adam A   Scheraga Harold A HA  

Journal of computational chemistry 20091001 13


We explored the energy-parameter space of our coarse-grained UNRES force field for large-scale ab initio simulations of protein folding, to obtain good initial approximations for hierarchical optimization of the force field with new virtual-bond-angle bending and side-chain-rotamer potentials which we recently introduced to replace the statistical potentials. 100 sets of energy-term weights were generated randomly, and good sets were selected by carrying out replica-exchange molecular dynamics s  ...[more]

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