title: Time-averaged nuclear Overhauser effect distance restraints applied to tendamistat.
abstract: A penalty function is introduced into molecular dynamics simulations that improves on current methods for enforcing nuclear magnetic resonance-based distance restraints. Rather than treating nuclear Overhauser effects as static distance bounds, they are considered as quantities that must be satisfied on average over the course of a simulation trajectory. The efficacy of the method is demonstrated on the previously determined structure of tendamistat. The molecular dynamics simulations show that the time-averaged constraints increase the mobility allowed to molecules, produce better agreement with distance bounds, improve searching properties and give a better estimate of the conformational space occupied by the molecule in solution.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Torda
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Scheek
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: van Gunsteren
mesh_terms: D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; C030526:tendamistate