Abstract
The all-atom additive CHARMM36 protein force field is widely used in molecular modeling and simulations. We present its refinement, CHARMM36m (http://mackerell.umaryland.edu/charmm_ff.shtml), with improved accuracy in generating polypeptide backbone conformational ensembles for intrinsically disordered peptides and proteins.
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Financial support from the NIH (GM072558 to A.D.M.) and (GM084953 to M.F.) and computational support from the University of Maryland Computer-Aided Drug Design Center, XSEDE (TG-MCA98N017 to A.D.M.) and (TG-MCB090003 to M.F.) and the SuperMUC supercomputer at the Leibniz Rechenzentrum in Garching provided through an allocation by the Gauss Supercomputing Center to S.R. and H.G. are acknowledged. We thank V. Gapsys for helpful discussions. S.R. is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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J.H. performed the force field optimization. J.H., S.R., G.N. and M.F. ran simulations. J.H., S.R., G.N., T.R. and M.F. analyzed data. J.H., S.R., M.F., B.L.d.G., H.G. and A.D.M. wrote the manuscript. A.D.M. conceived and initiated the research.
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Huang, J., Rauscher, S., Nawrocki, G. et al. CHARMM36m: an improved force field for folded and intrinsically disordered proteins. Nat Methods 14, 71–73 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4067
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