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- Title
CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF HIV-1 PROTEASE: A COMPARATIVE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION STUDY WITH MULTIPLE AMBER FORCE FIELDS.
- Authors
MEHER, BISWA RANJAN; SATISH KUMAR, MATTAPARTHI VENKATA; SHARMA, SMRITI; BANDYOPADHYAY, PRADIPTA
- Abstract
Flap dynamics of HIV-1 protease (HIV-pr) controls the entry of inhibitors and substrates to the active site. Dynamical models from previous simulations are not all consistent with each other and not all are supported by the NMR results. In the present work, the effect of force field on the dynamics of HIV-pr is investigated by MD simulations using three AMBER force fields ff99, ff99SB, and ff03. The generalized order parameters for amide backbone are calculated from the three force fields and compared with the NMR S2 values. We found that the ff99SB and ff03 force field calculated order parameters agree reasonably well with the NMR S2 values, whereas ff99 calculated values deviate most from the NMR order parameters. Stereochemical geometry of protein models from each force field also agrees well with the remarks from NMR S2 values. However, between ff99SB and ff03, there are several differences, most notably in the loop regions. It is found that these loops are, in general, more flexible in the ff03 force field. This results in a larger active site cavity in the simulation with the ff03 force field. The effect of this difference in computer-aided drug design against flexible receptors is discussed.
- Subjects
PROTEOLYTIC enzymes; HIV virus enzymes; MOLECULAR dynamics; PROTEASE inhibitors; NUCLEAR magnetic resonance; STEREOCHEMISTRY; DRUG design
- Publication
Journal of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, 2012, Vol 10, Issue 6, p-1
- ISSN
0219-7200
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0219720012500187