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Toward the description of electrostatic interactions between globular proteins: Potential of mean force in the primitive model

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Monte Carlo simulations are used to calculate the exact potential of mean force between charged globular proteins in aqueous solution. The aim of the present paper is to study the influence of the ions of the added salt on the effective interaction between these nanoparticles. The charges of the model proteins, either identical or opposite, are either central or distributed on a discrete pattern. Contrarily to Poisson–Boltzmann predictions, attractive, and repulsive direct forces between proteins are not screened similarly. Moreover, it has been shown that the relative orientations of the charge patterns strongly influence salt-mediated interactions. More precisely, for short distances between the proteins, ions enhance the difference of the effective forces between (i) like-charged and oppositely charged proteins, (ii) attractive and repulsive relative orientations of the proteins, which may affect the selectivity of protein/protein recognition. Finally, such results observed with the simplest models are applied to a more elaborate one to demonstrate their generality.
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hal-00164769 , version 1 (23-07-2007)

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Vincent Dahirel, Marie Jardat, Jean-François Dufrêche, Pierre Turq. Toward the description of electrostatic interactions between globular proteins: Potential of mean force in the primitive model. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2007, 127, pp.095101. ⟨10.1063/1.2767626⟩. ⟨hal-00164769⟩
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