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  • Biophysics
  • Computational Chemistry

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  • Hydrophobic effects are crucial for biological and chemical assemblies in water.
  • Understanding solvent's role in dynamic processes like protein folding and self-assembly is challenging.
  • Existing methods like indirect umbrella sampling (INDUS) are limited to static observation volumes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To generalize the INDUS method for enhanced sampling of solvent fluctuations in dynamical observation volumes.
  • To characterize solvent-mediated dynamics in flexible solute hydration, hydrophobe assembly, and peptide conformational changes.
  • To apply the generalized method to probe hard sphere dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Generalization of the indirect umbrella sampling (INDUS) method.
  • Application to dynamical observation volumes with evolving positions and shapes.
  • Characterization of water density fluctuations in various dynamic systems.

Main Results:

  • Successfully applied the generalized INDUS method to flexible solutes, small hydrophobe assembly, and peptide conformational transitions.
  • Demonstrated the method's capability to probe solvent dynamics in evolving systems.
  • Provided insights into the free energetics of solvent density fluctuations in dynamic processes.

Conclusions:

  • The generalized INDUS method enhances the study of solvent fluctuations in dynamic systems.
  • This approach provides a powerful tool for understanding solvent-mediated processes in chemistry and biology.
  • The method opens new avenues for investigating complex aqueous phenomena.