The importance of multipole moments when describing water and hydrated amino acid cluster geometry

Majeed S. Shaik, Michael Devereux, Paul L A Popelier

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    Abstract

    With a view to protein hydration modelling, optimized geometries of pure water clusters, hydrated serine and hydrated tyrosine clusters are compared systematically. Geometries predicted by multipole models according to the theory of Quantum Chemical Topology and by point charge models are contrasted with ab initio geometries obtained at the B3LYP/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. The performance of popular point charge models such as AMBER, CHARMM, OPLS, MMFF, TAFF and TIP4P is scrutinized.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1495-1510
    Number of pages15
    JournalMOLECULAR PHYSICS
    Volume106
    Issue number12-13
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2008

    Keywords

    • Ab initio
    • AMBER
    • Amino acid
    • Atoms in molecules
    • CHARMM
    • Clusters
    • Force field
    • MMFF
    • Multipole moments
    • OPLS
    • Point charge
    • Quantum chemical topology
    • TAFF
    • TIP4P
    • Water

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