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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 25-30Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02514
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- National Science Foundation [NSF CHE-1361776]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1361776] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Computational studies of vibrational energy flow in biomolecules have to date mapped out transport pathways on a case-by-case basis. To provide a more general approach, we derive scaling rules for vibrational energy transport in a globular protein, which are identified from extensive nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of vibrational energy flow in the villin headpiece subdomain HP36. We parametrize a master equation based on inter-residue, residue-solvent, and heater-residue energy-transfer rates, which closely reproduces the results of the all-atom simulations. From that fit, two scaling rules emerge, one for energy transport along the protein backbone which relies on a diffusion model and another for energy transport between tertiary contacts, which is based on a harmonic model. Requiring only the calculation of mean and variance of relatively few atomic distances, the approach holds the potential to predict the pathways and time scales of vibrational energy flow in large proteins. approach holds
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