TY - JOUR AU - Németh, Lukács AU - Hegedüs, Zsófia AU - Martinek, Tamás TI - Predicting Order and Disorder for β-Peptide Foldamers in Water JF - JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING J2 - J CHEM INF MODEL VL - 54 PY - 2014 IS - 10 SP - 2776 EP - 2783 PG - 8 SN - 1549-9596 DO - 10.1021/ci5003476 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2764648 ID - 2764648 AB - Following a quantitative validation approach, we tested the AMBER ff03 and GAFF force fields with the TIP3P explicit water model in molecular dynamic simulations of beta-peptide foldamers. The test sequences were selected to represent a wide range of folding behavior in water: compact helix, strand mimetic geometry, and the state of disorder. The combination AMBER ff03-TIP3P successfully predicted the experimentally observed conformational properties and reproduced the NOE distances and backbone (3)J coupling data at a good level. GAFF was unable to produce folded structures correctly due to its biased torsion potentials. We can recommend AMBER ff03-TIP3P for simulations involving beta-peptide sequences in aqueous media including ordered and disordered structures. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -