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Phase Transition of Confined Gold Nanoparticles: Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Study

  • Kim, Hyun-Sik;Li, Feng-Yin;Jang, Soon-Min
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.929-932
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    • 2012
  • The classical molecular dynamics simulation was used to study the phase transition of gold nanoparticles under confinement using Sutton-Chen (SC) potential. Metal gold nanoparticles with different number of atoms are subject to replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation for this purpose. The simulation showing the solidto-liquid melting temperature largely remains unaffected by confinement, while the confinement induces characteristic pre-melting at very low temperature depending on atom number in nanoparticles.

Computational Study on Oligomer Formation of Fibril-forming Peptide of α-Synuclein

  • Park, Seong-Byeong;Yoon, Je-Seong;Jang, Soon-Min;Lee, Kyung-Hee;Shin, Seok-Min
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.848-854
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    • 2012
  • We have studied the oligomerization of a fibril-forming segment of ${\alpha}$-Synulcein using a replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulation. The simulation was performed with trimers and tetramers of a 12 amino acid residue stretch (residues 71-82) of ${\alpha}$-Synulcein. From extensive REMD simulations, we observed the spontaneous formation of both trimer and tetramer, demonstrating the self-aggregating and fibril-forming properties of the peptides. Secondary structure profile and clustering analysis illustrated that antiparallel ${\beta}$-sheet structures are major species corresponding to the global free energy minimum. As the size of the oligomer increases from a dimer to a tetramer, conformational stability is increased. We examined the evolution of simple order parameters and their free energy profiles to identify the process of aggregation. It was found that the degree of aggregation increased as time passed. Tetramer formation was slower than trimer formation and a transition in order parameters was observed, indicating the full development of tetramer conformation which is more stable than that of the trimer. The shape of free energy surface and change of order parameter distributions indicate that the oligomer formation follows a dock-and-lock process.

Comparative Study of Implicit and Explicit Solvation Models for Probing Tryptophan Side Chain Packing in Proteins

  • Yang, Chang-Won;Pak, Young-Shang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.828-832
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    • 2012
  • We performed replica exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulations of the tripzip2 peptide (betahairpin) using the GB implicit and TI3P explicit solvation models. By comparing the resulting free energy surfaces of these two solvation model, we found that the GB solvation model produced a distorted free energy map, but the explicit solvation model yielded a reasonable free energy landscape with a precise location of the native structure in its global free energy minimum state. Our result showed that in particular, the GB solvation model failed to describe the tryptophan packing of trpzip2, leading to a distorted free energy landscape. When the GB solvation model is replaced with the explicit solvation model, the distortion of free energy shape disappears with the native-like structure in the lowest free energy minimum state and the experimentally observed tryptophan packing is precisely recovered. This finding indicates that the main source of this problem is due to artifact of the GB solvation model. Therefore, further efforts to refine this model are needed for better predictions of various aromatic side chain packing forms in proteins.

Structural investigation on the intrinsically disordered N-terminal region of HPV16 E7 protein

  • Lee, Chewook;Kim, Do-Hyoung;Lee, Si-Hyung;Su, Jiulong;Han, Kyou-Hoon
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.49 no.8
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    • pp.431-436
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    • 2016
  • Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the major cause of cervical cancer, a deadly threat to millions of females. The early oncogene product (E7) of the high-risk HPV16 is the primary agent associated with HPV-related cervical cancers. In order to understand how E7 contributes to the transforming activity, we investigated the structural features of the flexible N-terminal region (46 residues) of E7 by carrying out N-15 heteronuclear NMR experiments and replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations. Several NMR parameters as well as simulation ensemble structures indicate that this intrinsically disordered region of E7 contains two transient (10-20% populated) helical pre-structured motifs that overlap with important target binding moieties such as an E2F-mimic motif and a pRb-binding LXCXE segment. Presence of such target-binding motifs in HPV16 E7 provides a reasonable explanation for its promiscuous target-binding behavior associated with its transforming activity.

복제교환 분자동력학 모의실험을 통한 갇힌 조건에서의 금-팔라듐 나노합금입자 구조에 대한 연구

  • O, Tae-Hwan;Mun, Seong-Uk;Kim, Tae-Hun
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2016.03a
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    • pp.32-36
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    • 2016
  • 단일금속 나노입자에 비해 나노합금입자는 발광이나 촉매력과 같은 여러 특징들이 더 뛰어나게 나타난다고 잘 알려져 있다. 이에 따라 실험적인 연구뿐 아니라 이론적으로도 나노합금입자의 특성과 구조를 밝히려는 노력이 이루어지고 있다. 그러나 대부분의 연구는 자유공간을 상정하여 진행되고 있어, 갇힌 공간 속의 입자에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 이러한 배경으로 본 연구에서는 Sutton-Chen (SC) 포텐셜을 주요 이론으로 하여, 복제교환분자동력학(replica exchange molecular dynamics, REMD) 모의실험을 통해 가두는 공간의 크기에 따라 금-팔라듐 나노합금입자(Au17Pd17)의 구조와 특성이 어떻게 달라지는지 EDISON에 등록된 metal_alloy 프로그램(molecular dynamics simulation of metal alloy nano-cluster)을 사용해 살펴보았다. 결과적으로 입자가 상전이 이전의 낮은 온도에서 존재하면, 둘러싼 공간의 크기와 무관하게 안정한 구조의 중심에 항상 팔라듐 원자가 위치한다는 것이 확인되었다. 또, 가두는 공간의 크기마다 상전이가 일어나는 온도 구간의 차이가 나타났으며, 작은 공간에 갇힌 입자일수록 입자의 최대 직경이 작아지면서 상대적으로 높은 에너지를 가지는 구조를 형성하였다. 이는 입자가 존재하는 공간이 좁을수록 에너지의 증가를 통하면서 최대한 공간을 활용할 수 있는 구조를 선택하는 것으로 보인다.

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자기조립 나노구조체의 단위체 구조 연구

  • Yu, Yeong-Jae;Jo, Yeong-Beom;Lee, Min-Jun;Sin, Seok-Min
    • Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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    • 2015.03a
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2015
  • 최근 펩티드를 포함한 다양한 물질들의 자기조립 (self-assembly) 나노구조체에 대한 연구들이 많이 진행되고 있다. 이는 이러한 분자들로 구성된 구조체들이 환경친화적이며, 생체 나노구조체를 묘사함을 통해 세포소기관의 기능 역시 모방할 수 있다고 기대되기 때문이다. 만약 분자 수준에서 자기조립을 형성하는 단위체를 살펴본다면 자기조립 나노 구조를 개발하는 방법에 대한 통찰을 얻을 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 최근에 Wen Li 그룹에서 개발한 쉽게 합성할 수 있는 자기조립 펩티드의 적합성을 분자 수준에서 규명하였다. 이를 위해 복제계-맞바꿈 분자 동역학 시뮬레이션 (replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation)을 통해 구조를 샘플링 (sampling)하였고, 얻어진 구조들을 평균 제곱근 편차 (root mean square deviation, RMSD)를 기준으로 클러스터링하였다. 그 결과로 매우 우세한 상대빈도를 보이는 하나의 구조를 얻었으며, 그 구조가 탄소 골격과 잔기의 배열의 측면에서 자기조립 펩티드로 사용되기에 적합함을 규명하였다.

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