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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 6, 期 7, 页码 2242-2251出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct1001686
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- National Institutes of Health [GM46736]
- Thailand Research Fund [PHD/0211/2547]
The effective Hamiltonian molecular orbital and valence bond (EH-MOVB) method based on nonorthogonal block-localized fragment orbitals has been implemented in the program CHARMM for molecular dynamics simulations of chemical and enzymatic reactions, making use of semiempirical quantum mechanical models. Building upon ab initio MOVB theory, we make use of two parameters in the EH-MOVB method to fit the barrier height and the relative. energy between the reactant and product state for a given chemical reaction to be in agreement with experimental or high-level ab initio or density functional results. Consequently, the EH-MOVB method provides a highly accurate and computationally efficient QM/MM model for dynamics simulation of chemical reactions in solution. The EH-MOVB method is illustrated by examination of the potential energy surface of the hydride transfer reaction from trimethylamine to a flavin cofactor model in the gas phase. In the present study, we employed the semiempirical AM1 model, which yields a reaction barrier that is more than 5 kcal/mol too high. We use a parameter calibration procedure for the EH-MOVB method similar to that employed to adjust the results of semiempirical and empirical models. Thus, the relative energy of these two diabatic states can be shifted to reproduce the experimental energy of the reaction, and the barrier height is optimized to reproduce the desired (accurate) value by adding a constant to the off-diagonal matrix element. The present EH-MOVB method offers a viable approach to characterizing solvent and protein-reorganization effects in the realm of combined QM/MM simulations.
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