Secondary Structure Dependence of Amyloid-β(1–40) on Simulation Techniques and Force Field Parameters
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Keywords
Amyloid-β, epitope region, intrinsic disorder propensity, molecular dynamics simulations, radius of gyration, replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations, secondary structure propensities
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1111/cbdd.13830
Abstract
Our recent studies revealed that none of the selected widely used force field parameters and molecular dynamics simulation techniques yield structural properties for the intrinsically disordered α-synuclein that are in agreement with various experiments via testing different force field parameters. Here, we extend our studies on the secondary structure properties of the disordered amyloid-β(1–40) peptide in aqueous solution. For these purposes, we conducted extensive replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations and obtained extensive molecular dynamics simulation trajectories from David E. Shaw group. Specifically, these molecular dynamics simulations were conducted using various force field parameters and obtained results are compared to our replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations and experiments. In this study, we calculated the secondary structure abundances and radius of gyration values for amyloid-β(1–40) that were simulated using varying force field parameter sets and different simulation techniques. In addition, the intrinsic disorder propensity, as well as sequence-based secondary structure predisposition of amyloid-β(1–40) and compared the findings with the results obtained from molecular simulations using various force field parameters and different simulation techniques. Our studies clearly show that the epitope region identification of amyloid-β(1–40) depends on the chosen simulation technique and chosen force field parameters. Based on comparison with experiments, we find that best computational results in agreement with experiments are obtained using the a99sb*-ildn, charmm36m, and a99sb-disp parameters for the amyloid-β(1–40) peptide in molecular dynamics simulations without parallel tempering or via replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Chemical Biology & Drug Design, v. 97, issue 5, p. 1100-1108
Scholar Commons Citation
Caliskan, Murat; Mandaci, Sunay Y.; Uversky, Vladimir N.; and Coskuner-Weber, Orkid, "Secondary Structure Dependence of Amyloid-β(1–40) on Simulation Techniques and Force Field Parameters" (2021). Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications. 190.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mme_facpub/190
