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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 8, 期 2, 页码 618-628出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct200417p
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- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) [RGPIN-315019, RGPIN-238357]
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [MCB-0546768, MCB-1052477]
- AHFMR
- Killam Trust
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Teragrid [MCB-050006N]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1052477] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In spite of extensive research and use in medical practice, the precise molecular mechanism of volatile anesthetic action remains unknown. The distribution of anesthetics within lipid bilayers and potential targeting to membrane proteins is thought to be central to therapeutic function. Therefore, obtaining a molecular level understanding of volatile anesthetic partitioning into lipid bilayers is of vital importance to modern pharmacology. In this study we investigate the partitioning of the prototypical anesthetic, chloroform, into lipid bilayers and different organic solvents using molecular dynamics simulations with potential models ranging from simplified coarse-grained MARTINI to additive and polarizable CHARMM all-atom force fields. Many volatile anesthetics display significant inducible dipole moments, which correlate with their potency, yet the exact role of molecular polarizability in their stabilization within lipid bilayers remains unknown. We observe that explicit treatment of atomic polarizability makes it possible to accurately reproduce solvation free energies in solvents with different polarities, allowing for quantitative studies in heterogeneous molecular distributions, such as lipid bilayers. We calculate the free energy profiles for chloroform crossing lipid bilayers to reveal a role of polarizability in modulating chloroform partitioning thermodynamics via the chloroform-induced dipole moment and highlight competitive binding to the membrane core and toward the glycerol backbone that may have significant implications for understanding anesthetic action.
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