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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 124, Issue 46, Pages 10326-10336Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c06399
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- Polish National Science Centre [UMO-2013/10/E/ST4/00755]
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [BMN 539-T120-B468-20]
- National Centre for Research and Development [WND-POWR.03.02.00-00-I059/16]
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Hydrophobicity is a phenomenon of great importance in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. It is defined as the interaction between nonpolar molecules or groups in water and their low solubility. Hydrophobic interactions affect many processes in water, for example, complexation, surfactant aggregation, and coagulation. These interactions play a pivotal role in the formation and stability of proteins or biological membranes. In the present study, we assessed the effect of ionic strength, solute size, and shape on hydrophobic interactions between pairs of nonpolar particles. Pairs of methane, neopentane, adamantane, fullerene, ethane, propane, butane, hexane, octane, and decane were simulated by molecular dynamics in AMBER 16.0 force field. As a solvent, TIP3P and TIP4PEW water models were used. Potential of mean force (PMF) plots of these dimers were determined at four values of ionic strength, 0, 0.04, 0.08, and 0.40 mol/dm(3), to observe its impact on hydrophobic interactions. The characteristic shape of PMFs with three extrema (contact minimum, solvent-separated minimum, and desolvation maximum) was observed for most of the compounds for hydrophobic interactions. Ionic strength affected hydrophobic interactions. We observed a tendency to deepen contact minima with an increase in ionic strength value in the case of spherical and spheroidal molecules. Additionally, two-dimensional distribution functions describing water density and average number of hydrogen bonds between water molecules were calculated in both water models for adamantane and hexane. It was observed that the density of water did not significantly change with the increase in ionic strength, but the average number of hydrogen bonds changed. The latter tendency strongly depends on the water model used for simulations.
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