期刊
COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS
卷 184, 期 3, 页码 841-852出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2012.10.018
关键词
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Molecular conformation; Monte Carlo; Molecular dynamics; Markov Chain; Single molecule
资金
- German Israeli Foundation [1000.89.9/2008]
- Nanoscale Photonic Imaging [SFB 755]
Single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) experiments probe molecular distances on the nanometer scale. In such experiments, distances are recorded from FRET transfer efficiencies via the Forster formula, E = 1/(1 + (R/R-0)(6)). The energy transfer however also depends on the mutual orientation of the two dyes used as distance reporter. Since this information is typically inaccessible in FRET experiments, one has to rely on approximations, which reduce the accuracy of these distance measurements. A common approximation is an isotropic and uncorrelated dye orientation distribution. To assess the impact of such approximations, we present the algorithms and implementation of a computational toolkit for the simulation of smFRET on the basis of molecular dynamics (MD) trajectory ensembles. In this study, the dye orientation dynamics, which are used to determine dynamic FRET efficiencies, are extracted from MD simulations. In a subsequent step, photons and bursts are generated using a Monte Carlo algorithm. The application of the developed toolkit on a poly-proline system demonstrated good agreement between smFRET simulations and experimental results and therefore confirms our computational method. Furthermore, it enabled the identification of the structural basis of measured heterogeneity. The presented computational toolkit is written in Python, available as open-source, applicable to arbitrary systems and can easily be extended and adapted to further problems.
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