Force Field Effects in Simulations of Flexible Peptides with Varying Polyproline II Propensity

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Five peptides previously suggested to possess polyproline II (PPII) structure have here been investigated by using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to compare how well four different force fields known for simulating intrinsically disordered proteins relatively well (Amber ff99SB-disp, Amber ff99SB-ILDN, CHARM36IDPSFF, and CHARMM36m) can capture this secondary structure element. The results revealed that all force fields sample PPII structures but to different extents and with different propensities toward other secondary structure elements, in particular, the β-sheet and "random coils". A cluster analysis of the simulations of histatin 5 also revealed that the conformational ensembles of the force fields are quite different. We compared the simulations to circular dichroism and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy experiments and conclude that further experiments and methods for interpreting them are needed to assess the accuracy of force fields in determining PPII structure.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Vol/bind17
Udgave nummer10
Sider (fra-til)6634-6646
Antal sider13
ISSN1549-9618
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
This research was funded by the NordForsk’s Nordic Neutron Science Programme (Grant No. 81912) and the Lundbeck Foundation BRAINSTRUC initiative in structural biology (R155-2015-2666, lundbeckfonden.com ). Computer resources for the simulations were provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at the Center for Scientific and Technical Computing at Lund University (LUNARC). We also acknowledge access to computational resources from the ROBUST Resource for Biomolecular Simulations (supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Grant No. NF18OC0032608) and from the Biocomputing Core Facility at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.

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