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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 2, 期 1, 页码 175-186出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct050218h
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This paper introduces a self-consistent computational protocol for modeling protein electrostatic potentials according to static point-charge model distributions. The protocol involves a simple space-domain decomposition scheme where individual molecular domains are modeled as Quantum-Mechanical (QM) layers embedded in the otherwise classical Molecular-Mechanics (MM) protein environment. ElectroStatic-Potential (ESP) atomic charges of the constituent molecular domains are computed, to account for mutual polarization effects, and iterated until obtaining a self-consistent point-charge model of the protein electrostatic potential. The novel protocol achieves quantitative agreement with full QM calculations in the description of electrostatic potentials of small polypeptides where polarization effects are significant, showing a remarkable improvement relative to the corresponding electrostatic potentials obtained with popular MM force fields. The capabilities of the method are demonstrated in several applications, including calculations of the electrostatic potential in the potassium channel protein and the description of protein-protein electrostatic interactions.
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