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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 125, Issue 31, Pages 9523-9530Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja029833a
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM30580] Funding Source: Medline
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Implicit solvent hydration free energy models are an important component of most modern computational methods aimed at protein structure prediction, binding affinity prediction, and modeling of conformational equilibria. The nonpolar component of the hydration free energy, consisting of a repulsive cavity term and an attractive van der Waals solute-solvent interaction term, is often modeled using estimators based on the solvent exposed solute surface area. In this paper, we analyze the accuracy of linear surface area models for predicting the van der Waals solute-solvent interaction energies of native and non-native protein conformations, peptides and small molecules, and the clesolvation penalty of protein-protein and protein-ligand binding complexes. The target values are obtained from explicit solvent simulations and from a continuum solvent van der Waals interaction energy model. The results indicate that the standard surface area model, while useful on a coarse-grained scale, may not be accurate or transferable enough for high resolution modeling studies of protein folding and binding. The continuum model constructed in the course of this study provides one path for the development of a computationally efficient implicit solvent nonpolar hydration free energy estimator suitable for high-resolution structural and thermodynamic modeling of biological macromolecules.
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