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蛋白质水化层溶剂化动力学中不同时间尺度的起源:分子动力学模拟研究

On the origin of diverse time scales in the protein hydration layer solvation dynamics: A molecular dynamics simulation study

Sayantan Mondal, Saumyak Mukherjee, Biman Bagchi

摘要:

为了探究溶剂化动力学中所观察到的多个时间尺度的微观起源,我们进行了几个计算机实验。我们对溶菌酶、肌红蛋白和甜蛋白Monellin三种蛋白质-水体系进行了原子分子动力学模拟。在这些实验中,我们突变某些天然探针(色氨酸)的相邻氨基酸侧链的电荷,并冻结侧链运动。为了区分不同的贡献,我们分解的总溶剂化能响应中存在的各种组件的系统。这使我们能够捕捉不同的自我和交叉能量相关项之间的相互作用。冻结蛋白质的运动去除了由侧链波动引起的最慢的成分,但仍保留了一部分慢度。这导致的结论是,在~20-80 ps范围内的慢分量来自于水化层中存在的慢水分子。而超过100 ps的组分可能来自各种来源,即氨基酸侧链中的相邻电荷、与它们氢键合的水分子以及侧链和水之间的动态耦合运动。此外,电荷还加强了附近水分子的结构有序性,并有助于形成局部长寿命的氢键网络。溶剂化动力学中的空间和时间响应的进一步分离揭示了水合作用和本体水的不同作用。我们发现,水化层的水分子主要负责缓慢的组件,而最初的超快衰变主要出现(约80%),由于体积。这与早期的理论观察一致。我们还试图合理化我们的结果与分子流体动力学理论的帮助下,开发使用经典的时间依赖性密度泛函理论在半定量的方式。

英文摘要:

In order to inquire the microscopic origin of observed multiple time scales in solvation dynamics we carry out several computer experiments. We perform atomistic molecular dynamics simulations on three protein-water systems namely, Lysozyme, Myoglobin and sweet protein Monellin. In these experiments we mutate the charges of the neighbouring amino acid side chains of certain natural probes (Tryptophan) and also freeze the side chain motions. In order to distinguish between different contributions, we decompose the total solvation energy response in terms of various components present in the system. This allows us to capture the interplay among different self and cross-energy correlation terms. Freezing the protein motions removes the slowest component that results from side chain fluctuations, but a part of slowness remains. This leads to the conclusion that the slow component in the ~20-80 ps range arises from slow water molecules present in the hydration layer. While the more than 100 ps component may arise from various sources namely, adjacent charges in amino acid side chains, the water molecules that are hydrogen bonded to them and a dynamically coupled motion between side chain and water. The charges, in addition, enforce a structural ordering of nearby water molecules and helps to form local long-lived hydrogen bonded network. Further separation of the spatial and temporal responses in solvation dynamics reveals different roles of hydration and bulk water. We find that the hydration layer water molecules are largely responsible for the slow component whereas the initial ultrafast decay arise predominantly (~80%) due to the bulk. This agrees with earlier theoretical observations. We also attempt to rationalise our results with the help of a molecular hydrodynamic theory that was developed using classical time dependent density functional theory in a semi quantitative manner.

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