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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 959-965Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct200675g
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- European Research Council [ERC-2009-Adg 25027-PELE]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Atomistic molecular simulation methods are now able to explore complex protein or protein ligand dynamical space in a tractable way with methods such as meta-dynamics or adaptive biasing force. However, many of these methods either require a careful selection of reaction coordinates or the knowledge of an initial pathway of some kind. Thus, it is important that effective methods are developed to produce, this pathway data in an efficient fashion. PELE, a proven protein ligand sampling code, has been developed to provide rapid protein sampling in highly flexible cases, using a reduced network model eigen problem approach. The resulting method is able to rapidly sample configuration space with very general driving information. When applied to ubiquitin, PELE was able to reproduce RMSD and average force data found in molecular dynamics simulations. PELE was also applied to explore the opening/closing transition of T4 lysozyme. A meta-dynamics exploration using a low energy pathway validated that the configurations explored by PELE represent the most populated regions of phase space. PELE and meta-dynamics explorations also discovered a low free energy region where a large cross-domain helix of T4 lysozyme is broken in two. There is previous NMR evidence for the validity of this unfolded helix region.
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