Size Matters

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Table of Contents

{1} Size Matters

{2} Does size matter?

{3} Does size matter?...

{4} For example, data like...

{5} What defines the extent of an atom?

{6} Various Radii for atoms found in proteins

{7} Carbon radii illustrated:

{8} Carbon:

{9} Surface definitions and calculations

{10} Accessible surface determines how many solvent molecules can “touch”

{11} The molecular surface is identified by concave regions.

{12} Connolly’s MS program:

{13} Connolly program...

{14} Advantages of dot surface:

{15} Electrostatic potential...

{16} Coulombic electrostatic potential on a Molecular Surface

{17} and the spatial derivatives indicate the contours of the electrostatic field...

{18} Potential gradients around the Glu-Arg dipeptide

{19} van der Waals radii are not standardized!

{20} Applying some literature vdW’s to acetylene

{21} Why does this matter?

{22} Best combination of energy components

{23} Solvation energy of charged molecules is very different from those of uncharged species

Author: John E. Wampler

Email: wampler@bchiris.bmb.uga.edu

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References:

Sources of van der Waals Radii:
Bondi, A. (1964) "van der Waals Volumes and Radii," J. Phys. Chem. 68, 441 (1964)

Bondi, A. (1968) Physical Properties of Molecular Crystals, Liquids, and Glasses, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY (1968), chapter 14

Nyburg, S. C., and Faerman, C. H. (1985) "A Revision of van der Waals Atomic Radii for Molecular Crystals," Acta Crystallogr. B41, 274-279 (1985).

Pauling, L (1960) The Nature of the Chemical Bond, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

Surface Types and Calculations:
Connolly, M. L. (1983a) “Solvent-accessible surfaces of proteins and nucleic acids,” Science 221, 709-713.

Connolly, M. L. (1983b) “Analytical Molecular Surface Calculation,” J. Applied Cryst. 16, 548-558.

Connolly, M. L. (1993) "The Molecular Surface Package," J. Mol. Graphics 11, 139-141.

Duncan, B. S., and Olson, A. J. (1993) "Approximation and Characterization of Molecular Surfaces," Biopolymers 33, 219-229.

Grant, J. A., and B. T. Pickup (1995) "A Gaussian Descripton of Molecular Shape," J. Phys. Chem. 99, 3503-3510.

Richards, F. M. (1977) “Areas, volumes, packing and protein structure,” Ann. Rev. in Biophys. & Bioengin. 6, 151-176.

Richards, F. M. (1985) "Calculation of Molecular Volumes and Areas for Structures of Known Geometry," Methods in Enzymology 115, 440-464.

Solvation energies from surface and volume calculations:
Furuki, T. A. Umeda, M. Sakurai, Y. Inoue and R. Chujo (1994) "General Parameterization of a Reaction Field Theory Combined with the Boundary Element Method," J. Comp. Chem. 15, 90-104.

Giesen, D. J., C. J. Cramer & D. G. Truhlar (1994) "Entropic contributions to free energies of solvation," J. Phys. Chem. 98, 4141-4147.

Gilson, M. & B. Honig (1987), Nature 330, 84-86

Rashin, A.A., & M. A. Bukatin (1994) "A view of thermodynamics of hydration emerging from continuum studies," Biophys. Chem. 51, 167-192

Rashin, A. A., & K. Namboodiri (1987) "A simple method for the calculation of hydration enthalpies of polar molecules with arbitrary shapes," J. Phys. Chem. 91, 6003-6012.

Rashin, A. A., L. Young and I. A. Topol (1994) "Quantitative Evaluation of Hydration Thermodynamics with a Continuum Model," Biophys. Chem. 51, 359-374

Richards, W. G., P. M. King, & C. A. Reynolds (1989) "Solvation effects," Protein Engineering 2, 319-327

Tannor, D. J., B. Marten, R. Murphy, R. A. Friesner, D. Sitkof, A. Nicholls, M. Ringnalda, W. A. Goddard III and B. Honig (1994) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 116, 11875-11882.

Warshell, A., & S. T. Russell (1984), Quart. Rev. Biophys. 17, 283-422.