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Simulations of the upper critical solution temperature behavior of poly(ornithine-co-citrulline)s using Martini-based coarse-grained force fields

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Poly(ornithine-co-citrulline)s are ureido-based polymers which were shown to exhibit tunable upper critical solution temperature (UCST) behavior, a property that can be exploited to develop thermoresponsive nanoparticles for controlled drug delivery systems. To gain insight into the driving forces that govern the formation and dissolution processes of poly(ornithine-co-citrulline) nanoparticles, a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study has been carried out using MARTINI-based protein coarse-grained models. Multi-microsecond simulations at temperatures ranging from 280 to 370 K show that the fully reparametrized version 3.0 of MARTINI force field is able to capture the dependence on temperature of poly(ornithine-co-citrulline) aggregation and 1 dissolution, while version 2.2 could not account for it. Furthermore, the phase separation observed in these simulations allowed to extrapolate a phase diagram based on the Flory-Huggins theory of polymer solution which could help in future rational design of drug delivery nanoparticles based on poly(amino acid)s.
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hal-03286381 , version 1 (14-07-2021)

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Anne-Elisabeth Molza, Ping Gao, Justine Jakpou, Julien Nicolas, Nicolas Tsapis, et al.. Simulations of the upper critical solution temperature behavior of poly(ornithine-co-citrulline)s using Martini-based coarse-grained force fields. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2021, 17 (7), pp.4499-4511. ⟨10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00140⟩. ⟨hal-03286381⟩
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