scholarly journals The influence of external electric fields on proton transfer tautomerism in the guanine–cytosine base pair

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 6252-6265
Author(s):  
Alexander Gheorghiu ◽  
Peter V. Coveney ◽  
Alya A. Arabi

A detailed investigation is reported of mutagenic guanine–cytosine tautomerization in a realistic model of DNA bathed in intense electric fields using a combination of classical molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics methods.

Author(s):  
Walker M. Jones ◽  
Aaron G. Davis ◽  
R. Hunter Wilson ◽  
Katherine L. Elliott ◽  
Isaiah Sumner

We present classical molecular dynamics (MD), Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD), and hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) data. MD was performed using the GPU accelerated pmemd module of the AMBER14MD package. BOMD was performed using CP2K version 2.6. The reaction rates in BOMD were accelerated using the Metadynamics method. QM/MM was performed using ONIOM in the Gaussian09 suite of programs. Relevant input files for BOMD and QM/MM are available.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walker M. Jones ◽  
Aaron G. Davis ◽  
R. Hunter Wilson ◽  
Katherine L. Elliott ◽  
Isaiah Sumner

We present classical molecular dynamics (MD), Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD), and hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) data. MD was performed using the GPU accelerated pmemd module of the AMBER14MD package. BOMD was performed using CP2K version 2.6. The reaction rates in BOMD were accelerated using the Metadynamics method. QM/MM was performed using ONIOM in the Gaussian09 suite of programs. Relevant input files for BOMD and QM/MM are available.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Raiteri ◽  
Peter Kraus ◽  
Julian Gale

Molecular dynamics simulations of the liquid-liquid interface between water and 1,2-Dichloroethane in the presence of weak external electric fields.<div>The effect of the use of 3D periodic Ewald summation and the effect of the simulation setup are discussed.</div><div>A new simple geometric method for designing the simulation cell is proposed. This method was thoroughly tested shown that it mitigates any artefacts to the use of 3D Ewald summation with external electric field.</div>


2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 750-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Nowosielski ◽  
Marcin Hoffmann ◽  
Aneta Kuron ◽  
Malgorzata Korycka-Machala ◽  
Jaroslaw Dziadek

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. eaaz2915 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdenek Futera ◽  
John S. Tse ◽  
Niall J. English

In a superionic (SI) ice phase, oxygen atoms remain crystallographically ordered while protons become fully diffusive as a result of intramolecular dissociation. Ice VII’s importance as a potential candidate for a SI ice phase has been conjectured from anomalous proton diffusivity data. Theoretical studies indicate possible SI prevalence in large-planet mantles (e.g., Uranus and Neptune) and exoplanets. Here, we realize sustainable SI behavior in ice VII by means of externally applied electric fields, using state-of-the-art nonequilibrium ab initio molecular dynamics to witness at first hand the protons’ fluid dance through a dipole-ordered ice VII lattice. We point out the possibility of SI ice VII on Venus, in its strong permanent electric field.


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