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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 127, Issue 48, Pages 10282-10294Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c05560
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This study investigates the adsorption process of peptides, nucleobases, and ligands on gold using computational methods. The results show that the choice of force fields strongly affects the adsorption free energies and trends. Noncovalent interactions play a crucial role in the adsorption process. This research is important for understanding adsorption processes and designing biosensors.
We study the adsorption process of model peptides, nucleobases, and selected standard ligands on gold through the development of a computational protocol based on fully atomistic classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations combined with umbrella sampling techniques. The specific features of the interface components, namely, the molecule, the metallic substrate, and the solvent, are taken into account through different combinations of force fields (FFs), which are found to strongly affect the results, especially changing absolute and relative adsorption free energies and trends. Overall, noncovalent interactions drive the process along the adsorption pathways. Our findings also show that a suitable choice of the FF combinations can shed light on the affinity, position, orientation, and dynamic fluctuations of the target molecule with respect to the surface. The proposed protocol may help the understanding of the adsorption process at the microscopic level and may drive the in-silico design of biosensors for detection purposes.
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