QM/MM-PBSA method to estimate free energies for reactions in proteins
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Summary, in English
We have developed a method to estimate free energies of reactions in proteins, called QM/MM-PBSA. It estimates the internal energy of the reactive site by quantum mechanical (QM) calculations, whereas bonded, electrostatic, and van der Waals interactions with the surrounding protein are calculated at the molecular mechanics (MM) level. The electrostatic part of the solvation energy of the reactant and the product is estimated by solving the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) equation, and the nonpolar part of the solvation energy is estimated from the change in solvent-accessible surface area (SA). Finally, the change in entropy is estimated from the vibrational frequencies. We test this method for five proton-transfer reactions in the active sites of [Ni,Fe] hydrogenase and copper nitrite. reductase. We show that QM/MM-PBSA reproduces the results of a strict QM/MM free-energy perturbation method with a mean absolute deviation (MAD) of 8-10 kJ/mol if snapshots from molecular dynamics simulations are used and 4-14 kJ/mol if a single QM/MM structure is used. This is appreciably better than the original QM/MM results or if the QM energies are supplemented with a point-charge model, a self-consistent reaction field, or a PB model of the protein and the solvent, which give MADs of 22-36 kJ/mol for the same test set.
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Publiceringsår
2008
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
12537-12548
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Part B
Volym
112
Issue
39
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Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
The American Chemical Society (ACS)
Ämne
- Theoretical Chemistry
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1520-5207