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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 134, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3535560
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [21300111]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [20038034, 20118002]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [20118002, 21300111, 20038034] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The relationship between the protein conformation and the hydration effect is investigated for the equilibrium fluctuation of cytochrome c. To elucidate the hydration effect with explicit solvent, the solvation free energy of the protein immersed in water was calculated using the molecular dynamics simulation coupled with the method of energy representation. The variations of the protein intramolecular energy and the solvation free energy are found to compensate each other in the course of equilibrium structural fluctuation. The roles of the attractive and repulsive components in the protein-water interaction are further examined for the solvation free energy. The attractive component represented as the average sum of protein-water interaction energy is dominated by the electrostatic effect and is correlated to the solvation free energy through the linear-response-type relationship. No correlation with the (total) solvation free energy is seen, on the other hand, for the repulsive component expressed as the excluded-volume effect. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3535560]
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