Issue August 2005

category image Volume 23
No. 1 (p 1-112)
August 2005
ISSN 0739-110

An Hypothesis Paper -- An Independent Method for the Analysis of Protein Folding Kinetics from All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations (p. 73-76)

We propose a method for extracting useful kinetic information from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding. By calculating the time correlation functions between the evolution of different structural properties during the course of the simulation we can determine the endpoint of the reaction and the mechanism by which it occurs. As a test of our method we use thermal denaturation simulations on a 76 residue protein, ubiquitin. The method we present should be used in combination with current techniques for analyzing molecular dynamics trajectories.

Neelan J. Marianayagama,*
Andrew G. Brown
Sophie E. Jackson

Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB2 1EW
United Kingdom

aPresent address:
Department of Bioengineering
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720, USA
*neelanm@yahoo.com

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