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Calculation of the water–cyclohexane transfer free energies of neutral amino acid side-chain analogs using the OPLS all-atom force field

✍ Scribed by Justin L. MacCallum; D. Peter Tieleman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
98 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0192-8651

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Abstract

We calculated the free energy of solvation of the neutral analogs of 18 amino acid side‐chains (not including glycine and proline) using the OPLS all‐atom force field in TIP4P water, SPC water, and cyclohexane by molecular dynamics simulation and thermodynamic integration. The average unsigned errors in the free energies of solvation in TIP4P, SPC, and cyclohexane are 4.4, 4.9, and 2.1 kJ/mol respectively. Most of the calculated hydration free energies are not favorable enough compared to experiment. The largest errors are found for tryptophan, histidine, glutamic acid, and glutamine. The average unsigned errors in the free energy of transfer from TIP4P to cyclohexane and from SPC to cyclohexane are 4.0 and 4.1 kJ/mol, respectively. The largest errors, of more than 7.5 kJ/mol, are found for histidine, glutamine, and glutamatic acid. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 24: 1930–1935, 2003

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