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Switching Go ̅ -Martini for Investigating Protein Conformational Transitions and Associated Protein-Lipid Interactions.

Song YangChen Song
Published in: Journal of chemical theory and computation (2024)
Proteins are dynamic biomolecules that can transform between different conformational states when exerting physiological functions, which is difficult to simulate using all-atom methods. Coarse-grained (CG) Go̅-like models are widely used to investigate large-scale conformational transitions, which usually adopt implicit solvent models and therefore cannot explicitly capture the interaction between proteins and surrounding molecules, such as water and lipid molecules. Here, we present a new method, named Switching Go ̅ -Martini , to simulate large-scale protein conformational transitions between different states, based on the switching Go̅ method and the CG Martini 3 force field. The method is straightforward and efficient, as demonstrated by the benchmarking applications for multiple protein systems, including glutamine binding protein (GlnBP), adenylate kinase (AdK), and β 2 -adrenergic receptor (β2AR). Moreover, by employing the Switching Go ̅ -Martini method, we can not only unveil the conformational transition from the E2Pi-PL state to E1 state of the type 4 P-type ATPase (P4-ATPase) flippase ATP8A1-CDC50 but also provide insights into the intricate details of lipid transport.
Keyphrases
  • molecular dynamics
  • molecular dynamics simulations
  • binding protein
  • single molecule
  • protein protein
  • amino acid
  • small molecule
  • cell cycle
  • ionic liquid
  • protein kinase