Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning

While the construction of a dependable force field for performing classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is crucial for elucidating the structure and function of biomolecular systems, the attempts to do this for glycans are relatively sparse compared to those for proteins and nucleic acids. Cu...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c40d61b4b8744672a6bd528b30abbf992021-11-11T18:38:47ZImprovement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning10.3390/molecules262166911420-3049https://doaj.org/article/c40d61b4b8744672a6bd528b30abbf992021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/26/21/6691https://doaj.org/toc/1420-3049While the construction of a dependable force field for performing classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is crucial for elucidating the structure and function of biomolecular systems, the attempts to do this for glycans are relatively sparse compared to those for proteins and nucleic acids. Currently, the use of GLYCAM06 force field is the most popular, but there have been a number of concerns about its accuracy in the systematic description of structural changes. In the present work, we focus on the improvement of the GLYCAM06 force field for <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-glucose, a simple and the most abundant monosaccharide molecule, with the aid of machine learning techniques implemented with the TensorFlow library. Following the pre-sampling over a wide range of configuration space generated by MD simulation, the atomic charge and dihedral angle parameters in the GLYCAM06 force field were re-optimized to accurately reproduce the relative energies of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-glucose obtained by the density functional theory (DFT) calculations according to the structural changes. The validation for the newly proposed force-field parameters was then carried out by verifying that the relative energy errors compared to the DFT value were significantly reduced and that some inconsistencies with experimental (e.g., NMR) results observed in the GLYCAM06 force field were resolved relevantly.Makoto IkejoHirofumi WatanabeKohei ShimamuraShigenori TanakaMDPI AGarticleforce fieldglucosemachine learningmolecular dynamicsGLYCAMOrganic chemistryQD241-441ENMolecules, Vol 26, Iss 6691, p 6691 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
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topic force field
glucose
machine learning
molecular dynamics
GLYCAM
Organic chemistry
QD241-441
spellingShingle force field
glucose
machine learning
molecular dynamics
GLYCAM
Organic chemistry
QD241-441
Makoto Ikejo
Hirofumi Watanabe
Kohei Shimamura
Shigenori Tanaka
Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning
description While the construction of a dependable force field for performing classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is crucial for elucidating the structure and function of biomolecular systems, the attempts to do this for glycans are relatively sparse compared to those for proteins and nucleic acids. Currently, the use of GLYCAM06 force field is the most popular, but there have been a number of concerns about its accuracy in the systematic description of structural changes. In the present work, we focus on the improvement of the GLYCAM06 force field for <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-glucose, a simple and the most abundant monosaccharide molecule, with the aid of machine learning techniques implemented with the TensorFlow library. Following the pre-sampling over a wide range of configuration space generated by MD simulation, the atomic charge and dihedral angle parameters in the GLYCAM06 force field were re-optimized to accurately reproduce the relative energies of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mi>β</mi></semantics></math></inline-formula>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-glucose obtained by the density functional theory (DFT) calculations according to the structural changes. The validation for the newly proposed force-field parameters was then carried out by verifying that the relative energy errors compared to the DFT value were significantly reduced and that some inconsistencies with experimental (e.g., NMR) results observed in the GLYCAM06 force field were resolved relevantly.
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author Makoto Ikejo
Hirofumi Watanabe
Kohei Shimamura
Shigenori Tanaka
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Hirofumi Watanabe
Kohei Shimamura
Shigenori Tanaka
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title Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning
title_short Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning
title_full Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning
title_fullStr Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning
title_full_unstemmed Improvement of the Force Field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Glucose with Machine Learning
title_sort improvement of the force field for <i>β</i>-<span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-glucose with machine learning
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