Modeling lipid–protein interactions for coarse-grained lipid and Cα protein models
- 18 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 155 (15), 155101
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0057278
Abstract
Biological membranes that play major roles in diverse functions are composed of numerous lipids and proteins, making them an important target for coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Recently, we have developed the CG implicit solvent lipid force field (iSoLF) that has a resolution compatible with the widely used Cα protein representation [D. Ugarte La Torre and S. Takada, J. Chem. Phys. 153, 205101 (2020)]. In this study, we extended it and developed a lipid–protein interaction model that allows the combination of the iSoLF and the Cα protein force field, AICG2+. The hydrophobic–hydrophilic interaction is modeled as a modified Lennard-Jones potential in which parameters were tuned partly to reproduce the experimental transfer free energy and partly based on the free energy profile normal to the membrane surface from previous all-atom MD simulations. Then, the obtained lipid–protein interaction is tested for the configuration and placement of transmembrane proteins, water-soluble proteins, and peripheral proteins, showing good agreement with prior knowledge. The interaction is generally applicable and is implemented in the publicly available software, CafeMol.Funding Information
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20H0593, 21H02441)
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