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To refine empirical parameters for the GB-Neck implicit solvent model to improve the accuracy of solvation energy and effective radii predictions in protein molecular dynamics simulations.

March 6, 2013Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Improved Generalized Born Solvent Model Parameters for Protein Simulations

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TNThi Hong Hai NguyenRoche (United States)DRDaniel R. RoeNational Institutes of Health CSCarlos SimmerlingNational Research University Higher School of Economics

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Computational study reveals improved solvation energy accuracy with the GB-Neck2 model in proteins, indicating enhanced reliability for fast implicit solvent molecular simulations.

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To refine empirical parameters for the GB-Neck implicit solvent model to improve the accuracy of solvation energy and effective radii predictions in protein molecular dynamics simulations.
Refit empirical parameters for the GB-Neck pairwise implicit solvent model using a significantly expanded training dataset to establish GB-Neck2.
Benchmarked GB-Neck2 against Poisson-Boltzmann calculations, explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations, and experimental peptide folding and thermal stability profiles across diverse secondary structures.
GB-Neck2 showed superior agreement with Poisson-Boltzmann calculations for electrostatic solvation energies across diverse peptide and protein systems compared to GB-Neck and GB-OBC.
Predicted secondary structure preferences matched explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations markedly better than earlier implicit solvent models.
Achieved near-quantitative reproduction of experimental structures and thermal stability profiles across several model peptides.

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Nguyen et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d67e0867f65a2d1d1f2d1a https://doi.org/10.1021/ct3010485

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Computational study reveals improved solvation energy accuracy with the GB-Neck2 model in proteins, indicating enhanced reliability for fast implicit solvent molecular simulations.

Improved Generalized Born Solvent Model Parameters for Protein Simulations

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