Capturing the Effects of Explicit Waters in Implicit Electrostatics Modeling: Qualitative Justification of Gaussian-Based Dielectric Models in DelPhi.

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Arghya ChakravortyEmil Alexov

Abstract

Our group has implemented a smooth Gaussian-based dielectric function in DelPhi (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2013, 9 (4), 2126-2136) which models the solute as an object with inhomogeneous dielectric permittivity and provides a smooth transition of dielectric permittivity from surface-bound water to bulk solvent. Although it is well-understood that the protein hydrophobic core is less polarizable than the hydrophilic protein surface, less attention is paid to the polarizability of water molecules inside the solute and on its surface. Here, we apply explicit water simulations to study the behavior of water molecules buried inside a protein and on the surface of that protein and contrast it with the behavior of the bulk water. We selected a protein that is experimentally shown to have five cavities, most of which are occupied by water molecules. We demonstrate through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations that the behavior of water in the cavity is drastically different from that in the bulk. These observations were made by comparing the mean residence times, dipole orientation relaxation times, and average dipole moment fluctuations. We also show that the bulk region has a nonuniform distribution of these tempo-spatial properties. Fro...Continue Reading

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