Implicit solvent simulations of DNA and DNA-protein complexes: agreement with explicit solvent vs experiment
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Implicit solvent simulations of DNA and DNA-protein complexes: agreement with explicit solvent vs experiment
Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules with implicit solvent reduce the computational cost and complexity of such simulations so that longer time scales and larger system sizes can be reached. While implicit solvent simulations of proteins have become well established, the success of implicit solvent in the simulation of nucleic acids has not been fully established to date. Results obtained in this study demonstrate that stable and efficient simulations of DNA and a protein-DNA complex can be achieved with an implicit solvent model based on continuum dielectric electrostatics. Differences in conformational sampling of DNA with two sets of atomic radii that are used to define the dielectric interface between the solute and the continuum dielectric model of the solvent are investigated. Results suggest that depending on the choice of atomic radii agreement is either closer to experimental data or to explicit solvent simulations. Furthermore, partial conformational transitions toward A-DNA conformations when salt is added within the implicit solvent framework are observed.
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