論文

査読有り 筆頭著者
2016年12月13日

Computational Methods for Configurational Entropy Using Internal and Cartesian Coordinates

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
  • Simon Hikiri
  • ,
  • Takashi Yoshidome
  • ,
  • Mitsunori Ikeguchi

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開始ページ
5990
終了ページ
6000
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00563
出版者・発行元
American Chemical Society

The configurational entropy of solute molecules is a crucially important quantity to study various biophysical processes. Consequently, it is necessary to establish an efficient quantitative computational method to calculate configurational entropy as accurately as possible. In the present paper, we investigate the quantitative performance of the quasi-harmonic and related computational methods, including widely used methods implemented in popular molecular dynamics (MD) software packages, compared with the Clausius method, which is capable of accurately computing the change of the configurational entropy upon temperature change. Notably, we focused on the choice of the coordinate systems (i.e., internal or Cartesian coordinates). The Boltzmann-quasi-harmonic (BQH) method using internal coordinates outperformed all the six methods examined here. The introduction of improper torsions in the BQH method improves its performance, and anharmonicity of proper torsions in proteins is identified to be the origin of the superior performance of the BQH method. In contrast, widely used methods implemented in MD packages show rather poor performance. In addition, the enhanced sampling of replica-exchange MD simulations was found to be efficient for the convergent behavior of entropy calculations. Also in folding/unfolding transitions of a small protein, Chignolin, the BQH method was reasonably accurate. However, the independent term without the correlation term in the BQH method was most accurate for the folding entropy among the methods considered in this study, because the QH approximation of the correlation term in the BQH method was no longer valid for the divergent unfolded structures.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00563
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27951672
URL
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00563
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00563
  • ISSN : 1549-9626
  • ISSN : 1549-9618
  • eISSN : 1549-9626
  • PubMed ID : 27951672
  • SCOPUS ID : 85005978106

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