• 文献标题:   Discontinuous Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecule Interfacial Behavior: Study of Ovispirin-1 Adsorption on a Graphene Surface
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHENG SZ, SAJIB MSJ, WEI Y, WEI T
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY COMPUTATION
  • ISSN:   1549-9618 EI 1549-9626
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  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01172 EA FEB 2021
  • 出版年:   2021

▎ 摘  要

Fundamental understanding of biomolecular interfacial behavior, such as protein adsorption at the microscopic scale, is critical to broad applications in biomaterials, nanomedicine, and nanoparticle-based biosensing techniques. The goal of achieving both computational efficiency and accuracy presents a major challenge for simulation studies at both atomistic and molecular scales. In this work, we developed a unique, accurate, high-throughput simulation method which, by integrating discontinuous molecular dynamics (DMD) simulations with the Go-like protein-surface interaction model, not only solves the dynamics efficiently, but also describes precisely the protein intramolecular and intermolecular interactions at the atomistic scale and the protein-surface interactions at the coarse-grained scale. Using our simulation method and in-house developed software, we performed a systematic study of alpha-helical ovispirin-1 peptide adsorption on a graphene surface, and our study focused on the effect of surface hydrophobic interactions and pi-pi stacking on protein adsorption. Our DMD simulations were consistent with full-atom molecular dynamics simulations and showed that a single ovispirin-1 peptide lay down on the flat graphene surface with randomized secondary structure due to strong protein-surface interactions. Peptide aggregates were formed with an internal hydrophobic core driven by strong interactions of hydrophobic residues in the bulk environment. However, upon adsorption, the hydrophobic graphene surface can break the hydrophobic core by denaturing individual peptide structures, leading to disassembling the aggregate structure and further randomizing the ovispirin-1 peptide's secondary structures.