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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-23783-8
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21703206, 11547164]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong [ZR2016BB13]
- Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang [LY17B030008]
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An efficient computational approach for modeling protein electrostatic is developed according to static point-charge model distributions based on the linear-scaling EE-GMFCC (electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation with conjugate caps) quantum mechanical (QM) method. In this approach, the Electrostatic-Potential atomic charges are obtained from ab initio calculation of protein, both polarization and charge transfer effect are taken into consideration. This approach shows a significant improvement in the description of electrostatic potential and solvation energy of proteins comparing with current popular molecular mechanics (MM) force fields. Therefore, it has gorgeous prospect in many applications, including accurate calculations of electric field or vibrational Stark spectroscopy in proteins and predicting protein-ligand binding affinity. It can also be applied in QM/MM calculations or electronic embedding method of ONIOM to provide a better electrostatic environment.
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