The Effect of Optical Isomer for Amino-acid Interaction Potential

Abstract

In order to accelerate the conformational search of peptides, a coarse-grained model in which amino acid residues were treated with an amino acid pair interaction potential was investigated. To treat both natural and artificial types of amino acids and staples, new interaction potentials were developed by umbrella sampling. For the new potential, the effect of optical isomer was investigated with the threonine potential. As a result, the potential of allo-threonine was different from that of L-threonine.