Applications and Challenges

A recent application of implicit solvent in simulations of larger sysfems has been reported for fhe nucleosome core particle [10], for chemotaxis Y profein [56], in a study of unfolded sfafes of apomyoglobin [57], and in efforts to model the structure and dynamics of sferoidogenic acufe regulafory protein-related lipid transfer domains [58]. Mosf implicif solvenf simulations that have been reported involve peptide or protein solutes, but success with implicit solvent simulations of nucleic acids has also been reporfed [59,60]. 

An exciting development made possible by implicit solvent is the implementation of constant pH simulations where the ionization states of ionizable residues are allowed to vary dynamically in response to interactions with the surrounding residues and the environment [64,65]. Although the methodology was introduced only recently, interesting first applications have already been reported [66,67]. 

Finally, implicit solvent has been found useful in the refinement of protein structures based on experimental constraints [68] and without restraints from approximate homology models [69] when combined with replica exchange methodology. 

Simulations of biomolecules are typically carried out in NVT (constant number of particles, volume, and temperature) or NPT (constant pressure instead of volume) ensembles to reflect the conditions of biological environments. While Newtonian mechanics for a fixed simulation box with a solute and explicit solvent results in 

More realistic kinetic behavior in implicit solvent simulations can be obtained with the Langevin thermostat [18] where stochastic collisions and friction forces provide kinetic energy transfer to and from the solute in an analogous fashion to explicit solute-solvent interactions. As a result, kinetic transition rates similar to rates from explicit solvent simulations can be recovered with an appropriate choice of the friction constant [2]. 

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If we add to all these applications and challenges the dominant position of animal cell technology in the discovery and development phases of new pharmaceuticals, it is easy to predict two or three decades of continued expansion in this field of knowledge and technology. 

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