Multicanonical Ensemble Generated by Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Enhanced Conformational Sampling of Peptides

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Abstract

A molecular dynamics (MD) method using the multicanonical algorithm, multicanonical MD, is proposed to enhance the efficiency of conformational sampling of peptides. Multicanonical MD is a constant temperature MD on a deformed potential energy surface, which gives a multicanonical ensemble characterized by a flat energy distribution. The multicanonical ensemble, in turn, is converted into a canonical ensemble by the reweighting formula of Ferrenberg and Swendsen. The multicanonical algorithm was originally developed by Berg et al. as a method of Monte Carlo simulations. The multicanonical MD is its application to MD simulations. Using a system of a simple double-well potential, it was confirmed that this method yields a correct canonical distribution. A test of the method was also performed with a five-residue peptide, Met-enkephalin, and showed that multicanonical MD samples much larger conformational space than conventional canonical MD.

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