In Journal of chemical information and modeling
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins without a fixed three-dimensional (3D) structure under physiological conditions and are associated with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, amyloidosis, diabetes, and other diseases. Experimental methods can hardly capture the ensemble of diverse conformations for IDPs. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can sample continuous conformations that might provide a valuable complement to experimental data. However, the accuracy of MD simulations depends on the quality of force field. In particular, the evolutionary conservation and coevolution of IDPs introduce that current force fields could not precisely reproduce the conformation of IDPs. In order to improve the performance of force field, deep learning and reweighting methods were used to automatically generate personal force field parameters for intrinsically disordered and ordered proteins. At first, the deep learning method predicted more accuracy φ/ψ dihedral of residue than the previous method. Then, reweighting optimized the personal force field parameters for each residue. Finally, typical representative systems such as IDPs, structure protein, and fast-folding protein were used to evaluate this force field. The results indicate that two personal force field parameters (named PPFF1 and PPFF1_af2) could better reproduce the experimental observables than ff03CMAP force field. In summary, this strategy will provide feasibility for the development of precise personal force fields.
Ji Xiaoyue, Liu Hao, Zhang Yangpeng, Chen Jun, Chen Hai-Feng
2022-Dec-19
