Molecular dynamics simulation of plastocyanin potential energy fluctuations: 1/f noise

Anna Rita Bizzarri and Salvatore Cannistraro

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1999, vol. 267, issue 3, 257-270

Abstract: Molecular dynamics simulations of plastocyanin, an electron transfer copper containing protein involved in the photosynthetic process, have been performed in both the hydrated and dry state. An analysis of the potential energy fluctuations during a 500 ps dynamical evolution of the macromolecule reveals the presence of a 1/fα noise in the related spectral density. Such a phenomenon is shown to persist in a wide temperature range (from 100 to 300 K) for both the systems. The occurrence of 1/fα noise, which can be traced back to the existence, in protein systems, of thermally activated processes, seems to be a peculiarity of the dynamical behaviour of proteins. An analysis of the temperature dependence of the α exponent allowed us to extract information about the distribution of the conformational energy barriers and its dependence on the hydration level.

Keywords: 1/f noise; Protein dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00651-7

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