TY - GEN
T1 - Coarse graining biomolecular systems
AU - Lund, Mikael
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Proteins in the living cell can interact with a wide variety of solutes, ranging from ions, peptides, other proteins, DNA to membranes. Charged groups play a major role and solution conditions such as pH and ionic strength can modulate the interactions significantly. Describing these systems in a statistical mechanical framework involves thousands of pair-interactions and therefore a certain amount of coarse graining is often required. We here present a conceptually simple "mesoscopic" protein model where the detailed charge distribution and surface topology is well preserved. Monte Carlo simulations based on this model can be used to accurately reproduce second virial coeffients, pH titration curves and binding constants of proteins.
AB - Proteins in the living cell can interact with a wide variety of solutes, ranging from ions, peptides, other proteins, DNA to membranes. Charged groups play a major role and solution conditions such as pH and ionic strength can modulate the interactions significantly. Describing these systems in a statistical mechanical framework involves thousands of pair-interactions and therefore a certain amount of coarse graining is often required. We here present a conceptually simple "mesoscopic" protein model where the detailed charge distribution and surface topology is well preserved. Monte Carlo simulations based on this model can be used to accurately reproduce second virial coeffients, pH titration curves and binding constants of proteins.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/38049091693
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_9
M3 - Paper in conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:38049091693
SN - 9783540757542
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 73
EP - 81
BT - Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing
A2 - Kågström, Bo
A2 - Elmroth, Erik
A2 - Dongarra, Jack
A2 - Waśniewski, Jerzy
PB - Springer
T2 - 8th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA 2006
Y2 - 18 June 2007 through 21 June 2007
ER -