title: Derivation of fixed partial charges for amino acids accommodating a specific water model and implicit polarization.
abstract: We have developed the IPolQ method for fitting nonpolarizable point charges to implicitly represent the energy of polarization for systems in pure water. The method involves iterative cycles of molecular dynamics simulations to estimate the water charge density around the solute of interest, followed by quantum mechanical calculations at the MP2/cc-pV(T+d)Z level to determine updated solute charges. Lennard-Jones parameters are updated starting from the Amber FF99SB nonbonded parameter set to accommodate the new charge model, guided by the comparisons to experimental hydration free energies (HFEs) of neutral amino acid side chain analogs and assumptions about the computed HFEs for charged side chains. These Lennard-Jones parameter adjustments for side-chain analogs are assumed to be transferable to amino acids generally, and new charges for all standard amino acids are then derived in the presence of water modeled by TIP4P-Ew. Overall, the new charges depict substantially more polarized amino acids, particularly in the backbone moieties, than previous Amber charge sets. Efforts to complete a new force field with appropriate torsion parameters for this charge model are underway. The IPolQ method is general and applicable to arbitrary solutes.
authors: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and BioMaPS Institute, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8066, United States. dcerutti@rci.rutgers.edu
authors: David S
authors: DS
authors: Cerutti
authors: Julia E
authors: JE
authors: Rice
authors: William C
authors: WC
authors: Swope
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Case
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D014867:Water
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