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så vad har folding det senaste året gett då? ingenting? Känns så värdelöst att folda nästan lika värdelöst som att försöka förhindra växthuseffekten som inte finns.
57. Structural Insight into RNA Hairpin Folding Intermediates
Gregory R. Bowman, Xuhui Huang, Yuan Yao, Jian Sun, Gunnar Carlsson, Leonidas J. Guibas, and Vijay S. Pande
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130 (30), 9676–9678, 2008
ABSTRACT. Hairpins are a ubiquitous secondary structure motif in RNA molecules. Despite their simple structure, there is some debate over whether they fold in a two-state or multi-state manner. We have studied the folding of a small tetraloop hairpin using a serial version of replica exchange molecular dynamics on a distributed computing environment. On the basis of these simulations, we have identified a number of intermediates that are consistent with experimental results. We also find that folding is not simply the reverse of high-temperature unfolding and suggest that this may be a general feature of biomolecular folding.
56. Convergence of folding free energy landscapes via application of enhanced sampling methods in a distributed computing environment.
Xuhui Huang,Gregory R. Bowman,and Vijay S. Pande
J Chem Phys. 2008 May 28;128(20):205106.
ABSTRACT.We have implemented the serial replica exchange method (SREM) and simulated tempering (ST) enhanced sampling algorithms in a global distributed computing environment. Here we examine the helix-coil transition of a 21 residue alpha-helical peptide in explicit solvent. For ST, we demonstrate the efficacy of a new method for determining initial weights allowing the system to perform a random walk in temperature space based on short trial simulations. These weights are updated throughout the production simulation by an adaptive weighting method. We give a detailed comparison of SREM, ST, as well as standard MD and find that SREM and ST give equivalent results in reasonable agreement with experimental data. In addition, we find that both enhanced sampling methods are much more efficient than standard MD simulations. The melting temperature of the Fs peptide with the AMBER99phi potential was calculated to be about 310 K, which is in reasonable agreement with the experimental value of 334 K. We also discuss other temperature dependent properties of the helix-coil transition. Although ST has certain advantages over SREM, both SREM and ST are shown to be powerful methods via distributed computing and will be applied extensively in future studies of complex bimolecular systems.
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