Impact of interfacial high-density water layer on accurate estimation of adsorption free energy by Jarzynski's equality

J Chem Phys. 2014 Jan 21;140(3):034706. doi: 10.1063/1.4858428.

Abstract

The interactions between proteins/peptides and materials are crucial to research and development in many biomedical engineering fields. The energetics of such interactions are key in the evaluation of new proteins/peptides and materials. Much research has recently focused on the quality of free energy profiles by Jarzynski's equality, a widely used equation in biosystems. In the present work, considerable discrepancies were observed between the results obtained by Jarzynski's equality and those derived by umbrella sampling in biomaterial-water model systems. Detailed analyses confirm that such discrepancies turn up only when the target molecule moves in the high-density water layer on a material surface. Then a hybrid scheme was adopted based on this observation. The agreement between the results of the hybrid scheme and umbrella sampling confirms the former observation, which indicates an approach to a fast and accurate estimation of adsorption free energy for large biomaterial interfacial systems.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adsorption
  • Molecular Dynamics Simulation
  • Oligopeptides / chemistry*
  • Probability Theory
  • Thermodynamics
  • Water / chemistry*

Substances

  • Oligopeptides
  • Water
  • arginyl-glycyl-aspartic acid