Toward Qm/Mm Simulation Of Enzymatic Reactions With The Drude Oscillator Polarizable Force Field
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION(2014)
Abstract
The polarization of the environment can influence the results from hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations of enzymatic reactions. In this article, we address several technical aspects in the development of polarizable QM/MM embedding using the Drude Oscillator (DO) force field. We propose a stable and converging update of the DO polarization state for geometry optimizations and a suitable treatment of the QM/MM-DO boundary when the QM and MM regions are separated by cutting through a covalent bond. We assess the performance of our approach by computing binding energies and geometries of three selected complexes relevant to biomolecular modeling, namely the water trimer, the N-methylacetamide dimer, and the cationic bis(benzene)sodium sandwich complex. Using a recently published MM-DO force field for proteins, we evaluate the effect of MM polarization on the QM/MM energy profiles of the enzymatic reactions catalyzed by chorismate mutase and by p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. We find that inclusion of MM polarization affects the computed barriers by about 10%.
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enzymatic reactions,qm/mm simulation
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