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Computing osmotic permeabilities of aquaporins AQP4, AQP5, and GlpF from near-equilibrium simulations.

ABSTRACT: Measuring or computing the single-channel permeability of aquaporins/aquaglyceroporins (AQPs) has long been a challenge. The measured values scatter over an order of magnitude but the corresponding Arrhenius activation energies converge in the current literature. Osmotic flux through an AQP was simulated as water current forced through the channel by kilobar hydraulic pressure or theoretically approximated as single-file diffusion. In this paper, we report large scale simulations of osmotic current under sub M gradient through three AQPs (water channels AQP4 and AQP5 and glycerol-water channel GlpF) using the mature particle mesh Ewald technique (PME) for which the established force fields have been optimized with known accuracy. These simulations were implemented with hybrid periodic boundary conditions devised to avoid the artifactitious mixing across the membrane in a regular PME simulation. The computed single-channel permeabilities at 5°C and 25°C are in agreement with recently refined experiments on GlpF. The Arrhenius activation energies extracted from our simulations for all the three AQPs agree with the in vitro measurements. The single-file diffusion approximations from our large-scale simulations are consistent with the current literature on smaller systems. From these unambiguous agreements among the in vitro and in silico studies, we observe the quantitative accuracy of the all-atom force fields of the current literature for water-channel biology. We also observe that AQP4, that is particularly rich in the central nervous system, is more efficient in water conduction and more temperature-sensitive than other water-only channels (excluding glycerol channels that also conduct water when not inhibited by glycerol).

SUBMITTER: Wambo TO

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5493307 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Computing osmotic permeabilities of aquaporins AQP4, AQP5, and GlpF from near-equilibrium simulations.

Wambo Thierry O TO Rodriguez Roberto A RA Chen Liao Y LY

Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes 20170425 8

Measuring or computing the single-channel permeability of aquaporins/aquaglyceroporins (AQPs) has long been a challenge. The measured values scatter over an order of magnitude but the corresponding Arrhenius activation energies converge in the current literature. Osmotic flux through an AQP was simulated as water current forced through the channel by kilobar hydraulic pressure or theoretically approximated as single-file diffusion. In this paper, we report large scale simulations of osmotic curr ...[more]

PMID: 28455098

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Computing osmotic permeabilities of aquaporins AQP4, AQP5, and GlpF from near-equilibrium simulations.

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Computing osmotic permeabilities of aquaporins AQP4, AQP5, and GlpF from near-equilibrium simulations.

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