Proteins at air-water and oil-water interfaces in an all-atom model
Biomolecules
2018-01-09 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Abstract
We study the behavior of five proteins at the air-water and oil-water interfaces by all-atom molecular dynamics. The proteins are found to get distorted when pinned to the interface. This behavior is consistent with the phenomenological way of introducing the interfaces in a coarse-grained model through a force that depends on the hydropathy indices of the residues. Proteins couple to the oil-water interface stronger than to the air- water one. They diffuse slower at the oil-water interface but do not depin from it, whereas depinning events are observed at the other interface. The reduction of the disulfide bonds slows the diffusion down.
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@article{arxiv.1801.02375,
title = {Proteins at air-water and oil-water interfaces in an all-atom model},
author = {Yani Zhao and Marek Cieplak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.02375},
year = {2018}
}
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13 pages, 10 figures