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通用bola两亲分子隐溶剂模拟的最小粗粒模型

Minimal Coarse-Grained Modelling Towards Implicit-Solvent Simulation of Generic Bolaamphiphiles

Somajit Dey, Jayashree Saha

摘要:

基于较早的单极两亲分子的单中心模型,发展了一个简单的双中心模型[S。Dey,J. Saha,Phys.Rev.E95,023315(2017)]。该模型将水环境(疏水效应和水化力)在其各向异性的网站-网站的相互作用,从而避免了需要模拟溶剂颗粒明确。这种经济的网站和明确的溶剂粒子的情况下,使分子动力学模拟bola两亲物,以实现介观的长度和时间尺度无法达到任何珠弹簧模型或明确的溶剂计算。该模型仅适用于通用bolas,因为规模的增益只能通过牺牲详细的分子结构的分辨率来获得。由于双网站,然而,(相对于单网站模型)我们的模型可以纳入必不可少的灵活性bolas,导致其U型构象。该模型bolas显示成功的自组装成实验观察到的纳米结构,如胶束,棒,薄层等,并保持在非常稳定的单分子层的流动性。在模型单极两亲物的双层中存在跨膜模型bolas增加了层状相的稳定性和不渗透性。模型bolas也被认为是较少的扩散,并产生较厚的层相比,他们的单极同行。刚性模型bolas,虽然本身是非手性的,但显示出自组装成螺旋杆。由于所有这些观察结果都与古生菌脂质和合成bola两亲物的众所周知的关键特征一致,因此我们的模型有望有效地用于仿生学,药物递送和低分子量水凝胶剂背景下的bola研究。据我们所知,没有其他的单或双网站,无溶剂模型的bolas迄今已被报道。

英文摘要:

A simple, dual-site model of bolaamphiphiles (bolaforms or bipolar amphiphiles) is developed based on an earlier single-site model of (monopolar) amphiphiles [S. Dey, J. Saha, Phys. Rev. E 95, 023315 (2017)]. The model incorporates aqueous environment (both hydrophobic effect and hydration force) in its anisotropic site-site interactions, thus obviating the need to simulate solvent particles explicitly. This economy of sites and the absence of explicit solvent particles enable molecular dynamics simulations of bolaamphiphiles to achieve mesoscopic length and time-scales unattainable by any bead-spring model or explicit solvent computations. The model applies to generic bolas only, since the gain in scale can only be obtained by sacrificing the resolution of detailed molecular structure. Thanks to dual-sites, however, (as opposed to a single-site model) our model can incorporate the essential flexibility of bolas that leads to their U-conformers. The model bolas show successful self-assembly into experimentally observed nano-structures like micelles, rods, lamellae etc. and retain fluidity in very stable monolayers. Presence of membrane-spanning model bolas in bilayers of model monopolar amphiphiles increases the stability and impermeability of the lamellar phase. Model bolas are also seen to be less diffusive and to produce thicker layers compared to their monopolar counterparts. Rigid model bolas, though achiral themselves, show self-assembly into helical rods. As all these observations agree with the well-known key characteristics of archaeal lipids and synthetic bolaamphiphiles, our model promises to be effective for studies of bolas in context of biomimetics, drug-delivery and low molecular weight hydrogelators. To the best of our knowledge, no other single or dual-site, solvent-free model for bolas has been reported thus far.

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