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Protein Physics. Structural Change. Peptide Folding. Petascale Future. Movie Time. Molecular Mechanical. Quantum Mechanical. Computer Simulation - Basic Principles. Model System. or QM/MM Potential. Molecular Mechanics Potential. Simulation - exploring the energy landscape.
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Protein Physics Structural Change Peptide Folding Petascale Future Movie Time
Molecular Mechanical Quantum Mechanical Computer Simulation - Basic Principles Model System or QM/MM Potential Molecular Mechanics Potential Simulation - exploring the energy landscape
Product Reactant Energy Landscape
ANDREEA GRUIA Halorhodopsin - Chloride Pumping at Atomic Resolution
. Spring-loaded throttle valve helps prevent chloride leakage Valve Energy = EI = 12 kcal/mol Barrier without valve = EII = 13 kcal/mol. Sum = 25 kcal/mol = no backflow.
Muscle Contraction Thin filament Thick filament
SONJA SCHWARZL ATP Hydrolysis by Myosin Biochemistry 45 5830 (2006)
BJORN WINDSHUEGEL Dynamics of Muscle Contraction. MSBIO - Universität Heidelberg PNAS 102 6873 (2005)
FRANK NOE Large-Scale Functional Conformational Transitions product reactant s range ns range
Ras p21 GTP-Bound Form (ON) GDP-Bound Form (OFF)
Ras p21 GTP-Bound Form (ON)
FRANK NOE Ras p21 trajectory
FRANK NOE 6 product reactant 7 6 28 3 1 13 8 11 25 7 5 18 9 J. Chem. Phys. 126 155102 (2007)
Temperature Connectivity of Network of Best Paths
Ras Molecular Switch ON - state OFF - state
Spallation Neutron Source Expensive Toys Cray XT4
Cray XT4 One Million Atoms – Molecular Dynamics
Lars Meinhold Zoe Cournia
Lignocellulosic Biomass Exhibits Structural Complexity Hemicellulose Lignin Cellulose
Spallation Neutron Source Cray XT4
Molecular Simulation Projects Cellulose. Lignin. Lignocellulosic Biomass. Cellulase Reaction Mechanism. Cellulosomes (subsequent talk).
Now 5 years ago Computer Power Improvement for Biological Molecular Dynamics Simulation • Gromacs with Reaction-Field • 5.4 million atoms, 175 atoms/core
Softwood Lignin & Cellulose Cellulose Ib + 26 lignins Probe for factors that might influence recalcitrance • cellulose accessible surface area • radii of gyration of lignins Large-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulation (1-3M atoms) using 2008 DOE INCITE award on ORNL Cray XT4.
Cellulose: Benjamin Lindner Preliminary Findings
Crystalline/Amorphous Crystalline 7 ns 1 ns
Collaborators UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics • Maramuthu Krishnan (CMB, ORNL) • Loukas Petridis (CMB, ORNL) • Jiancong Xu (CMB, ORNL) • Roland Schulz (CMB, ORNL) • Benjamin Lindner (CMB, ORNL) External • Nicoleta Bondar (U. Cal Irvine) • Lars Meinhold, Ahmed Zewail (Caltech) • Kei Moritsugu (RIKEN) • Akio Kitao (U. Tokyo) • Stefan Fischer, Isabella Daidone (U. Heidelberg) • Torsten Becker (U. Bayreuth) • Frank Noe (Free University of Berlin). • Vandana Kurkal-Siebert (BASF, Ludwigshafen). • Franci Merzel (U. Ljubljana) • John Finney (U. London) • Roy Daniel (U. Waikato) • Andrea Amadei, Alfredo Di Nola (U. Rome “La Sapienza”)