Intrinsically disordered protein‐specific force field CHARMM36IDPSFF
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Abstract
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are closely related to various human diseases. Because IDPs lack certain tertiary structure, it is difficult to use X-ray and NMR methods to measure their structures. Therefore, molecular dynamics simulation is a useful tool to study the conformer distribution of IDPs. However, most generic protein force fields were found to be insufficient in simulations of IDPs. Here, we report our development for the CHARMM community. Our residue-specific IDP force field (CHARMM36IDPSFF) was developed based on the base generic force field with CMAP corrections for all 20 naturally occurring amino acids. Multiple tests show that the simulated chemical shifts with the newly developed force field are in quantitative agreement with NMR experiment and are more accurate than the base generic force field. Comparison of J-couplings with previous work shows that CHARMM36IDPSFF and its corresponding base generic force field have their own advantages. In addition, CHARMM36IDPSFF simulations also agree with experiment for SAXS profiles and radii of gyration of IDPs. Detailed analysis shows that CHARMM36IDPSFF can sample more diverse and disordered conformers. These findings confirm that the newly developed force field can improve the balance of accuracy and efficiency for the conformer sampling of IDPs.
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