title: Molecular dynamics of large-ring cyclodextrins: principal component analysis of the conformational interconversions.
abstract: Trajectories obtained from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of some large-ring cyclodextrins (LR-CDs) were analyzed by a statistical method, principal component analysis (PCA), thus enabling the monitoring of the dominant PCA modes for concerted motions of the macroring atoms in a lower-dimensions subspace. Earlier analyses of macrorings' conformational deformations based on examination of snapshots extracted from the MD simulation trajectories were further supported on more quantitative grounds. The first 10 lowest-indexed modes describe more than 90% of the total atomic motion in all cases, with more than 50% of the contribution coming from the two highest-eigenvalue principal components. Representative average geometries of the cyclodextrin macroring were also obtained.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Physical Organic and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ul. Acad. G. Bonchev, bloc 9, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Martin G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Gotsev
authors.forename: Petko M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Ivanov