Realistic sampling of amino acid geometries for a multipolar polarizable force field

© 2015 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Détails bibliographiques
Publié dans:Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 36(2015), 24 vom: 15. Sept., Seite 1844-57
Auteur principal: Hughes, Timothy J (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Cardamone, Salvatore, Popelier, Paul L A
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2015
Accès à la collection:Journal of computational chemistry
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't conformational sampling electrostatics kriging protein data bank quantum chemical topology quantum theory of atoms in molecules Amino Acids
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Résumé:© 2015 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
The Quantum Chemical Topological Force Field (QCTFF) uses the machine learning method kriging to map atomic multipole moments to the coordinates of all atoms in the molecular system. It is important that kriging operates on relevant and realistic training sets of molecular geometries. Therefore, we sampled single amino acid geometries directly from protein crystal structures stored in the Protein Databank (PDB). This sampling enhances the conformational realism (in terms of dihedral angles) of the training geometries. However, these geometries can be fraught with inaccurate bond lengths and valence angles due to artefacts of the refinement process of the X-ray diffraction patterns, combined with experimentally invisible hydrogen atoms. This is why we developed a hybrid PDB/nonstationary normal modes (NM) sampling approach called PDB/NM. This method is superior over standard NM sampling, which captures only geometries optimized from the stationary points of single amino acids in the gas phase. Indeed, PDB/NM combines the sampling of relevant dihedral angles with chemically correct local geometries. Geometries sampled using PDB/NM were used to build kriging models for alanine and lysine, and their prediction accuracy was compared to models built from geometries sampled from three other sampling approaches. Bond length variation, as opposed to variation in dihedral angles, puts pressure on prediction accuracy, potentially lowering it. Hence, the larger coverage of dihedral angles of the PDB/NM method does not deteriorate the predictive accuracy of kriging models, compared to the NM sampling around local energetic minima used so far in the development of QCTFF
Description:Date Completed 13.06.2016
Date Revised 11.11.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1096-987X
DOI:10.1002/jcc.24006