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Protein C-GeM: A Coarse-Grained Electron Model for Fast and Accurate Protein Electrostatics Prediction

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry, Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry, Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry; Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON (Canada)
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry, Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)

The electrostatic potential (ESP) is a powerful property for understanding and predicting electrostatic charge distributions that drive interactions between molecules. In this study, we compare various charge partitioning schemes including fitted charges, density-based quantum mechanical (QM) partitioning schemes, charge equilibration methods, and our recently introduced coarse-grained electron model, C-GeM, to describe the ESP for protein systems. Furthermore, when benchmarked against high quality density functional theory calculations of the ESP for tripeptides and the crambin protein, we find that the C-GeM model is of comparable accuracy to ab initio charge partitioning methods, but with orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency since it does not require either the electron density or the electrostatic potential as input.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1838650
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling Journal Issue: 9 Vol. 61; ISSN 1549-9596
Publisher:
American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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