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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 107, Issue 35, Pages 9424-9433Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp0348981
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Methodological issues in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, such as the treatment of long-range electrostatic interactions or the type of pressure coupling, have important consequences for the equilibrium properties observed. We report a series of long (up to 150 ns) MD simulations of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers in which the methodology of simulation is systematically varied. Comparisons of simulations with truncation schemes, Ewald summations, and modified Coulomb interactions, either by shift functions or reaction field models, to describe long-range electrostatics point out the artifacts inherent in each of these methods and above all those of straight cutoff methods. We further show that bilayer properties are less sensitive to the details of the pressure-coupling algorithm and that an increased integration time step of 5 fs can be safely used in simulations of phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers.
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