title: A molecule-centered method for accelerating the calculation of hydrodynamic interactions in Brownian dynamics simulations containing many flexible biomolecules.
abstract: Inclusion of hydrodynamic interactions (HIs) is essential in simulations of biological macromolecules that treat the solvent implicitly if the macromolecules are to exhibit correct translational and rotational diffusion. The present work describes the development and testing of a simple approach aimed at allowing more rapid computation of HIs in coarse-grained Brownian dynamics simulations of systems that contain large numbers of flexible macromolecules. The method combines a complete treatment of intramolecular HIs with an approximate treatment of the intermolecular HIs which assumes that the molecules are effectively spherical; all of the HIs are calculated at the Rotne-Prager-Yamakawa level of theory. When combined with Fixman's Chebyshev polynomial method for calculating correlated random displacements, the proposed method provides an approach that is simple to program but sufficiently fast that it makes it computationally viable to include HIs in large-scale simulations. Test calculations performed on very coarse-grained models of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) E2 complex and on oligomers of ParM (ranging in size from 1 to 20 monomers) indicate that the method reproduces the translational diffusion behavior seen in more complete HI simulations surprisingly well; the method performs less well at capturing rotational diffusion but its discrepancies diminish with increasing size of the simulated assembly. Simulations of residue-level models of two tetrameric protein models demonstrate that the method also works well when more structurally detailed models are used in the simulations. Finally, test simulations of systems containing up to 1024 coarse-grained PDH molecules indicate that the proposed method rapidly becomes more efficient than the conventional BD approach in which correlated random displacements are obtained via a Cholesky decomposition of the complete diffusion tensor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA adrian-elcock@uiowa.edu.
authors.forename: Adrian H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Elcock
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