Two Dimensional Window Exchange Umbrella Sampling for Transmembrane Helix Assembly

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2013Author
Park, Soohyung
Im, Wonpil
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American Chemical Society
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://doi.org/10.1021/ct3008556.
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The method of window exchange umbrella sampling molecular dynamics (WEUSMD) with a pre-optimized parameter set was recently used to obtain the most probable conformations and the energetics of transmembrane (TM) helix assembly of a generic TM sequence. When applied to glycophorin A TM domain (GpA-TM) using the restraint potentials along the helix-helix distance, however, tight interfacial packing of GpA-TM resulted in insufficient conformational sampling at short helix-helix separation. This sampling issue is addressed by extending the WEUSMD into two dimensions with the restraint potentials along the helix-helix distance and crossing angle. The two-dimensional WEUSMD results demonstrate that the incomplete sampling in the one-dimensional WEUSMD arises from high barriers along the crossing angle between the GpA-TM helices. Together with the faster convergence in both the assembled conformations and the potential of mean force, the 2D-WEUSMD can be a general and efficient approach in computational studies of TM helix assembly.
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Park, S., & Im, W. (2013). Two Dimensional Window Exchange Umbrella Sampling for Transmembrane Helix Assembly. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 9(1), 13–17. http://doi.org/10.1021/ct3008556
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