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Coarse graining biomolecular systems

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing
Subtitle of host publication8th International Workshop, PARA 2006, Umeå, Sweden, June 18-21, 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Editors/authorsBo Kågström, Erik Elmroth, Jack Dongarra, Jerzy Waśniewski
PublisherSpringer
Pages73-81
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783540757542
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA 2006 - Umea, Sweden
Duration: 2007 Jun 182007 Jun 21

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4699 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Workshop on Applied Parallel Computing, PARA 2006
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUmea
Period2007/06/182007/06/21

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Theoretical Chemistry (including Computational Chemistry)

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