Protein-surface interactions at the nanoscale: Atomistic simulations with implicit solvent models

Autor: Delfi Bastos-González, David C. Malaspina, Leonor Pérez-Fuentes, Jordi Faraudo, Carlos Drummond
Přispěvatelé: Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Biocolloid and Fluid Physics Group, University of Granada [Granada], Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (CRPP), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Spanish Government grants MAT2015-64442-R, FIS2016-80087-C2-1-P and SEV-2015-0496 and from the Junta de Andalucia Grant CTS-6270. D.C.M. is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 6655919. We thank CESGA Supercomputing Center for technical support and for the use of supercomputing resources
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, Elsevier, 2019, 41, pp.40-49. ⟨10.1016/j.cocis.2018.11.005⟩
ISSN: 1359-0294
1879-0399
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2018.11.005⟩
Popis: International audience; A full molecular-level understanding of protein adsorption in important situations such as the formation of protein films at solid/liquid interfaces or the formation of a protein corona over inorganic nanoparticles is still lacking. All-atomic implicit solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, which are successfully employed in many related protein studies (such as protein folding for example) are emerging also as a useful tool to investigate proteins at surfaces. Implicit solvent simulations replace the detailed description of the solvent by a continuum media and effective atom–atom interactions retaining the atomistic detail in the description of the system of interest. This allows the simulation of larger systems and longer time scalesas compared with full MD simulations including explicit solvent. In this brief review, we present an overview of the current state of the application of this technique to the study of problems such as the interaction of proteins with solid surfaces and the structure of protein corona over inorganic nanoparticles. Limitations of the approach and future perspectives are also outlined.
Databáze: OpenAIRE