Ion Motions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations on DNA

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 2004 Oct 7

PMID 15465909

Citations 85

Authors

Sergei Y Ponomarev

Kelly M Thayer

David L Beveridge

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Abstract

Counterions play a significant role in DNA structure and function, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations offer the prospect of detailed description of the dynamical structure of ions at the molecular level. However, the motions of mobile counterions are notably slow to converge in MD on DNA. Obtaining accurate and reliable MD simulations requires knowing just how much sampling is required for convergence of each of the properties of interest. To address this issue, MD on a d(CGCGAATTCGCG) duplex in a dilute aqueous solution of water and 22 Na+ counterions was performed until convergence was achieved. The calculated first shell ion occupancies and DNA-Na+ radial distribution functions were computed as a function of time to assess convergence, and compared with relaxation times of the DNA internal parameters shift, slide, rise, tilt, roll, and twist. The sequence dependence of fractional occupancies of ions in the major and minor grooves of the DNA is examined, and the possibility of correlation between ion proximity and DNA minor groove widths is investigated.

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