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Using Delphi Capabilities To Mimic Protein's Conformational Reorganization With Amino Acid Specific Dielectric Constants, Lin Wang, Zhe Zhang, Walter Rocchia, Emil Alexov

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Many molecular events are associated with small or large conformational changes occurring in the corresponding proteins. Modeling such changes is a challenge and requires significant amount of computing time. From point of view of electrostatics, these changes can be viewed as a reorganization of local charges and dipoles in response to the changes of the electrostatic field, if the cause is insertion or deletion of a charged amino acid. Here we report a large scale investigation of modeling the changes of the folding energy due to single mutations involving charged group. This allows the changes of the folding energy to …