Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Toward a predictive understanding of slow methyl group dynamics in proteins.


ABSTRACT: The development of the most recent generation of molecular mechanics force fields promises an increasingly predictive understanding of the protein dynamics-function relationship. Based on extensive validation against various types of experimental data, the AMBER force field ff99SB was benchmarked in recent years as a favorable force field for protein simulations. Recent improvements of the side chain and backbone potentials, made by different groups, led to the ff99SB-ILDN and ff99SBnmr1 force fields, respectively. The combination of these potentials into a unified force field, termed ff99SBnmr1-ILDN, was used in this study to perform a microsecond time scale molecular dynamics simulation of free ubiquitin in explicit solvent for validation against an extensive set of experimental NMR methyl group residual dipolar couplings. Our results show a high level of consistency between the experimental data and the values predicted from the molecular dynamics trajectory reflecting a systematically improved performance of ff99SBnmr1-ILDN over the original ff99SB force field. Moreover, the unconstrained ff99SBnmr1-ILDN MD ensemble achieves a similar level of agreement as the recently introduced EROS ensemble, which was constructed based on a large body of NMR data as constraints, including the methyl residual dipolar couplings. This suggests that ff99SBnmr1-ILDN provides a high-quality representation of the motions of methyl-bearing protein side chains, which are sensitive probes of protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions.

SUBMITTER: Long D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3175054 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Toward a predictive understanding of slow methyl group dynamics in proteins.

Long Dong D   Li Da-Wei DW   Walter Korvin F A KF   Griesinger Christian C   Brüschweiler Rafael R  

Biophysical journal 20110801 4


The development of the most recent generation of molecular mechanics force fields promises an increasingly predictive understanding of the protein dynamics-function relationship. Based on extensive validation against various types of experimental data, the AMBER force field ff99SB was benchmarked in recent years as a favorable force field for protein simulations. Recent improvements of the side chain and backbone potentials, made by different groups, led to the ff99SB-ILDN and ff99SBnmr1 force f  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC4623037 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC2651658 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5771866 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4852640 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3229088 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6882142 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3986090 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC7258173 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5055379 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC5708843 | biostudies-literature