New analytic approximation to the standard molecular volume definition and its application to generalized born calculations
New analytic approximation to the standard molecular volume definition and its application to generalized born calculations
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DOI:
10.1002/jcc.10272
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发表时间:
2003-08-01
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3
通讯作者:
Brooks, CL
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作者:
Lee, MS;Feig, M;Brooks, CL
In a recent article (Lee, M. S.; Salsbury, F. R. Jr.; Brooks, C. L., III. J Chem Phys 2002, 116, 10606), we demonstrated that generalized Born (GB) theory provides a good approximation to Poisson electrostatic solvation energy calculations if one uses the same definitions of molecular volume for each. In this work, we present a new and improved analytic method for reproducing the Lee-Richards molecular volume, which is the most common volume definition for Poisson calculations. Overall, 1% errors are achieved for absolute solvation energies of a large set of proteins and relative solvation energies of protein conformations. We also introduce an accurate SASA approximation that uses the same machinery employed by our GB method and requires a small addition of computational cost. The combined methodology is shown to yield an efficient and accurate implicit solvent representation for simulations of biopolymers. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.