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Approximating nonequilibrium processes using a collection of surrogate diffusion models.

Christopher P Calderon1, Riccardo Chelli

  • 1Department of Statistics and Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA. calderon@rice.edu

The Journal of Chemical Physics
|April 17, 2008
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Surrogate process approximation models nonequilibrium peptide dynamics. Functional data analysis predicts deca-alanine unfolding/refolding work distributions from limited steered molecular dynamics simulations.

Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Biophysics
  • Statistical mechanics

Background:

  • Understanding protein folding/unfolding dynamics is crucial in biochemistry.
  • Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations provide insights into these processes.
  • The surrogate process approximation (SPA) offers a framework for modeling complex dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To apply the surrogate process approximation (SPA) to model the nonequilibrium dynamics of deca-alanine peptide.
  • To investigate the structural information captured by SPA models beyond the primary reaction coordinate.
  • To correlate SPA model functions with work done during steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations.

Main Methods:

  • Steered molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations were used to generate reaction coordinate (RC) dynamics.

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  • Overdamped diffusion models were employed to approximate RC dynamics via SPA.
  • Functional data analysis techniques were utilized to correlate SPA models with SMD work distributions.

    • Main Results:

    • SPA models were found to contain structural information orthogonal to the monitored reaction coordinate.
    • A correlation was established between SPA model functions and the work done in SMD simulations.
    • The shape of nonequilibrium work distributions for deca-alanine unfolding/refolding was predictable.

    Conclusions:

    • SPA, combined with functional data analysis, can effectively model peptide folding dynamics.
    • This approach allows prediction of work distributions using limited simulation data.
    • SPA provides a powerful tool for analyzing complex biophysical processes.