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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 348-354Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23804
Keywords
free energy calculations; molecular dynamics; alchemy; thermostability; mutations
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Computational protein design requires methods to accurately estimate free energy changes in protein stability or binding upon an amino acid mutation. From the different approaches available, molecular dynamics-based alchemical free energy calculations are unique in their accuracy and solid theoretical basis. The challenge in using these methods lies in the need to generate hybrid structures and topologies representing two physical states of a system. A custom made hybrid topology may prove useful for a particular mutation of interest, however, a high throughput mutation analysis calls for a more general approach. In this work, we present an automated procedure to generate hybrid structures and topologies for the amino acid mutations in all commonly used force fields. The described software is compatible with the Gromacs simulation package. The mutation libraries are readily supported for five force fields, namely Amber99SB, Amber99SB*-ILDN, OPLS-AA/L, Charmm22*, and Charmm36. (c) 2014 The Authors Journal of Computational Chemistry Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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