Linking Well-Tempered Metadynamics Simulations with Experiments |
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Authors: | Alessandro Barducci Massimiliano Bonomi Michele Parrinello |
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Affiliation: | Computational Science, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, USI Campus, Lugano, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | Linking experiments with the atomistic resolution provided by molecular dynamics simulations can shed light on the structure and dynamics of protein-disordered states. The sampling limitations of classical molecular dynamics can be overcome using metadynamics, which is based on the introduction of a history-dependent bias on a small number of suitably chosen collective variables. Even if such bias distorts the probability distribution of the other degrees of freedom, the equilibrium Boltzmann distribution can be reconstructed using a recently developed reweighting algorithm. Quantitative comparison with experimental data is thus possible. Here we show the potential of this combined approach by characterizing the conformational ensemble explored by a 13-residue helix-forming peptide by means of a well-tempered metadynamics/parallel tempering approach and comparing the reconstructed nuclear magnetic resonance scalar couplings with experimental data. |
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