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Validation of all-atom phosphatidylcholine lipid force fields in the tensionless NPT ensemble
Authors:Justine Taylor  Geoff Bradley
Institution:a School of Chemistry, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
b Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Abstract:A recently defined charge set, to be used in conjunction with the all-atom CHARMM27r force field, has been validated for a series of phosphatidylcholine lipids. The work of Sonne et al. successfully replicated experimental bulk membrane behaviour for dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) under the isothermal-isobaric (NPT) ensemble. Previous studies using the defined CHARMM27r charge set have resulted in lateral membrane contraction when used in the tensionless NPT ensemble, forcing the lipids to adopt a more ordered conformation than predicted experimentally. The current study has extended the newly defined charge set to 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) and 1-palmitoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (PDPC). Molecular dynamics simulations were run for each of the lipids (including DPPC) using both the CHARMM27r charge set and the newly defined modified charge set. In all three cases a significant improvement was seen in both bulk membrane properties and individual atomistic effects. Membrane width, area per lipid and the depth of water penetration were all seen to converge to experimental values. Deuterium order parameters generated with the new charge set showed increased disorder across the width of the bilayer and reflected both results from experiment and similar simulations run with united atom models. These newly validated models can now find use in mixed biological simulations under the tensionless ensemble without concern for lateral contraction.
Keywords:Phospholipid bilayer  Molecular dynamics  Simulation
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