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Hydration of biologically relevant tetramethylammonium cation by neutron scattering and molecular dynamics

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Neutron scattering and molecular dynamics studies were performed on a concentrated aqueous tetramethylammonium (TMA) chloride solution to gain insight into the hydration shell structure of TMA, which is relevant for understanding its behavior in biological contexts of, e.g., properties of phospholipid membrane headgroups or interactions between DNA and histones. Specifically, neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution experiments were performed on TMA and water hydrogens to extract the specific correlation between hydrogens in TMA (HTMA) and hydrogens in water (HW). Classical molecular dynamics simulations were performed to help interpret the experimental neutron scattering data. Comparison of the hydration structure and simulated neutron signals obtained with various force field flavors (e.g., overall charge, charge distribution, polarity of the CH bonds and geometry) allowed us to gain insight into how sensitive the TMA hydration structure is to such changes and how much the neutron signal can capture them. We show that certain aspects of the hydration, such as the correlation of the hydrogen on TMA to hydrogen on water, showed little dependence on the force field. In contrast, other correlations, such as the ion-ion interactions, showed more marked changes. Strikingly, the neutron scattering signal cannot discriminate between different hydration patterns. Finally, ab initio molecular dynamics was used to examine the three-dimensional hydration structure and thus to benchmark force field simulations. Overall, while neutron scattering has been previously successfully used to improve force fields, in the particular case of TMA we show that it has only limited value to fully determine the hydration structure, with other techniques such as ab initioMD being of a significant help.
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hal-04381431 , version 1 (09-01-2024)

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Phil Mason, Tomáš Martinek, Balázs Fábián, Mario Vazdar, Pavel Jungwirth, et al.. Hydration of biologically relevant tetramethylammonium cation by neutron scattering and molecular dynamics. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, In press, ⟨10.1039/D3CP05449G⟩. ⟨hal-04381431⟩
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