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Entropy of proteins using multiscale cell correlation

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>23/11/2020
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Issue number11
Volume60
Number of pages12
Pages (from-to)5540-5551
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date21/09/20
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A new multiscale method is presented to calculate the entropy of proteins from molecular dynamics simulations. Termed Multiscale Cell Correlation (MCC), the method decomposes the protein into sets of rigid-body units based on their covalent-bond connectivity at three levels of hierarchy: molecule, residue, and united atom. It evaluates the vibrational and topographical entropy from forces, torques, and dihedrals at each level, taking into account correlations between sets of constituent units that together make up a larger unit at the coarser length scale. MCC gives entropies in close agreement with normal-mode analysis and smaller than those using quasiharmonic analysis as well as providing much faster convergence. Moreover, MCC provides an insightful decomposition of entropy at each length scale and for each type of amino acid according to their solvent exposure and whether they are terminal residues. While the residue entropy depends weakly on solvent exposure, there is greater variation in entropy components for larger, more polar amino acids, which have increased conformational entropy but reduced vibrational entropy with greater solvent exposure.