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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Volume 60, Issue 1, Pages 279-288Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.9b01034
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Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins depend critically on the underlying force field, which may be parameterized against experimental data or high-quality quantum calculations. Here, we develop search algorithms based on Monte Carlo and steepest descent calculations to optimize the backbone dihedral angle parameters from a single reference simulation. We apply these tools to improve the agreement between simulations of single, capped amino acids and experimentally determined J values and secondary structure propensities of these molecules. The parameters are further refined based on simulations of a set of seven proteins and finally validated in simulations on a large set of 52 protein structures. Improvements in the dihedral angle distributions are observed, and structural propensities of the proteins are reproduced very well. Overall, the GROMOS 54A8_bb parameter set forms an improvement to previous parameter sets, both for small molecules and for protein simulations.
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