Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Oct 30;103(18):187801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.187801.
We report on a combined atomistic molecular dynamics simulation and implicit solvent analysis of a generic hydrophobic pocket-ligand (host-guest) system. The approaching ligand induces complex wetting-dewetting transitions in the weakly solvated pocket. The transitions lead to bimodal solvent fluctuations which govern magnitude and range of the pocket-ligand attraction. A recently developed implicit water model, based on the minimization of a geometric functional, captures the sensitive aqueous interface response to the concave-convex pocket-ligand configuration semiquantitatively.
我们报告了一个通用疏水口袋-配体(主体-客体)系统的原子分子动力学模拟和隐溶剂分析的联合研究。接近的配体在弱溶剂化口袋中诱导了复杂的润湿-去湿转变。这些转变导致溶剂波动的双峰分布,从而控制口袋-配体吸引力的大小和范围。最近开发的基于几何函数最小化的隐式水分子模型,对凹-凸口袋-配体构型对半定量地捕捉到了敏感的水界面响应。