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Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Molecular dynamics simulations
  • Free energy calculations

Background:

  • Estimating free-energy differences between multiple states is crucial in computational chemistry.
  • Enveloping distribution sampling (EDS) combined with replica exchange (RE) enhances molecular dynamics (MD) sampling.
  • Optimizing replica distribution in RE-EDS is critical for efficient free-energy calculations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate global round-trip time optimization (GRTO) algorithms for replica-exchange enveloping distribution sampling (RE-EDS).
  • To introduce a local round-trip time optimization (LRTO) algorithm for systems with slow environmental adaptation.
  • To calculate relative binding free energies of small-molecule inhibitors to PNMT using RE-EDS.

Main Methods:

  • Application of GRTO and a novel LRTO algorithm to RE-EDS simulations.
  • Utilizing a parallel energy-offset (PEOE) estimation scheme for energy offsets.
  • Performing RE-EDS simulations on nine small-molecule inhibitors of phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT).

Main Results:

  • Multistate GRTO provided optimal replica distribution for ligands in water.
  • Multistate LRTO was superior for ligands complexed with PNMT.
  • Successfully calculated 36 alchemical free-energy differences from a single 10 ns RE-EDS simulation.

Conclusions:

  • RE-EDS, enhanced by GRTO and LRTO algorithms, offers an efficient method for estimating relative binding free energies.
  • The choice of optimization algorithm (GRTO vs. LRTO) depends on the system's environmental characteristics.
  • This approach enables accurate free-energy calculations from concise MD simulations.