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Matubayasi N. Solvation energetics of proteins and their aggregates analyzed by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and the energy-representation theory of solvation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 57:9968-9978. [PMID: 34505117 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc03395f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Solvation is a controlling factor for the structure and function of proteins. This article addresses the effects of solvation from an energetic perspective for the fluctuations and cosolvent-induced changes in protein structures and the equilibrium of aggregate formation for a peptide. A theoretical framework to analyze the solvation effects with an explicit solvent is introduced by adopting the energy-representation theory of solvation, and the connection of the solvation free energy to the protein structure and the aggregation tendency is quantitatively described in combination with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. The interaction components that govern the solvation effects on the structural variations of proteins are further identified through correlation analysis, and a computational scheme to assess the shift of an aggregation equilibrium due to the addition of a cosolvent is provided.
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- Nobuyuki Matubayasi
- Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan.
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Kojima H, Handa K, Yamada K, Matubayasi N. Water Dissolved in a Variety of Polymers Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulation and a Theory of Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:9357-9371. [PMID: 34351173 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c04818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The performance of a polymer medium as a separation membrane is determined by the dissolution free energy ΔG and diffusion coefficient D of the permeant. In this work, ΔG and D of water are investigated with all-atom molecular dynamics simulation in a wide variety of polymer species in the amorphous state. The computed ΔG is shown to agree well with the experimental value for linear homopolymers, and the degrees of polymerization of the homopolymers do not affect ΔG when they are beyond ∼10. The copolymers of ethylene-vinylidene difluoride, ethylene-vinyl acetate, and ethylene-acrylamide are then examined by changing the repeating patterns of the constituent monomers in both the periodic and graft forms. It is found that ΔG is determined primarily by the overall compositions of the monomers and is not affected by the copolymerization topology (periodic or graft). The hydrophobicity of the copolymer is enhanced, furthermore, when the hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity of the ethylene and non-ethylene parts are well contrasted and those parts are fragmented along the polymer chain. According to the computed D, the diffusivity of water tends to be larger when the (co)polymer is more hydrophobic and ΔG is more positive. D is actually seen to vary by orders of magnitude with the polymer structures, while the effect of the polymer species on the water permeation is stronger for ΔG than for D.
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- Hidekazu Kojima
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Yamada K, Matubayasi N. Chain-Increment Method for Free-Energy Computation of a Polymer with All-Atom Molecular Simulations. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kazuo Yamada
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Matubayasi N. Energy-Representation Theory of Solutions: Its Formulation and Application to Soft, Molecular Aggregates. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2019. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20190246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Nobuyuki Matubayasi
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Masutani K, Yamamori Y, Kim K, Matubayasi N. Free-energy analysis of the hydration and cosolvent effects on the β-sheet aggregation through all-atom molecular dynamics simulation. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:145101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5088395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Keiichi Masutani
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Artificial Intelligence Research Center and Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Koto, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Yamamoto N, Nakakuki I, Matubayasi N. Free-energy analysis of physisorption on solid-liquid interface with the solution theory in the energy representation. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:014504. [PMID: 29981552 DOI: 10.1063/1.5027861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Physisorption of urea on its crystal in contact with water was subject to energetics analysis with all-atom molecular dynamics simulation. The transfer free energy of urea to an adsorption site was treated in the framework of the energy-representation theory of solutions, which allows a fast computation of the free energy in an inhomogeneous environment with solid-liquid interface. The preference of adsorption was then compared between the (001) and (110) faces, and it was found that the physisorption is more favorable on (001) than on (110) in correspondence to the hydrogen bonding between the adsorbed urea and the crystal urea. Among the terrace configurations of adsorption, the attractive interaction governs the preferable site with a minor role of the repulsive interaction. The effect of an edge was also treated by examining the terrace and step and was shown to be strongly operative on the (110) face when the CO group of the adsorbed urea points toward the edge. The present work demonstrates that the solution theory can be a framework for analyzing the energetics of physisorption and addressing the roles of the crystal and liquid at the interface through the systematic decomposition of free energy.
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- Naoki Yamamoto
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Tokunaga Y, Yamamori Y, Matubayasi N. Probabilistic analysis for identifying the driving force of protein folding. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:125101. [PMID: 29604891 DOI: 10.1063/1.5019410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Toward identifying the driving force of protein folding, energetics was analyzed in water for Trp-cage (20 residues), protein G (56 residues), and ubiquitin (76 residues) at their native (folded) and heat-denatured (unfolded) states. All-atom molecular dynamics simulation was conducted, and the hydration effect was quantified by the solvation free energy. The free-energy calculation was done by employing the solution theory in the energy representation, and it was seen that the sum of the protein intramolecular (structural) energy and the solvation free energy is more favorable for a folded structure than for an unfolded one generated by heat. Probabilistic arguments were then developed to determine which of the electrostatic, van der Waals, and excluded-volume components of the interactions in the protein-water system governs the relative stabilities between the folded and unfolded structures. It was found that the electrostatic interaction does not correspond to the preference order of the two structures. The van der Waals and excluded-volume components were shown, on the other hand, to provide the right order of preference at probabilities of almost unity, and it is argued that a useful modeling of protein folding is possible on the basis of the excluded-volume effect.
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- Yoshihiko Tokunaga
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Yamamori Y, Matubayasi N. Interaction-component analysis of the effects of urea and its alkylated derivatives on the structure of T4-lysozyme. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:225103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4985222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Yu Yamamori
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Yamamori Y, Ishizuka R, Karino Y, Sakuraba S, Matubayasi N. Interaction-component analysis of the hydration and urea effects on cytochrome c. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:085102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4941945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Yu Yamamori
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan
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- Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8568, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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KAWAKAMI T, SIMOYAMA N, SAKIYAMA Y, SHIGEMOTO I. Molecular Dynamics Study of the Structure and Permeability of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for Fuel Cells. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU 2016. [DOI: 10.1295/koron.2016-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Specialty Materials Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc
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- Corporate Strategic Planning Division, Toray Industries, Inc
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- Specialty Materials Research Laboratories, Toray Industries, Inc
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Frolov AI. Accurate Calculation of Solvation Free Energies in Supercritical Fluids by Fully Atomistic Simulations: Probing the Theory of Solutions in Energy Representation. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:2245-56. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Andrey I. Frolov
- Institute of Solution Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademicheskaya St. 1, 153045 Ivanovo, Russia
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