摘要
One of the main challenges of biosensor design is to understand the protein or peptide stability on the chip in high resolution structural detail. Since conventional experimental methods are limited by the resolution for their applications on surface tethered peptides/proteins, a recently developed coarse grained simulation method is employed to explore the peptide/surface interaction in residue-level resolution. This work shows how the coarse grained model successfully describes peptide-surface interactions by evaluating thermal stability of the peptide cecropin PI in bulk solution and on surfaces by physical adsorption and chemical tethering. The simulation also reproduces observations of peptide orientations on the self-assembled monolayer surface from earlier experimental work. Additionally, using knowledge obtained from the simulations, specific mutations are suggested and the desired structure and pose on the surface is obtained. In summary, this work sheds a light on the reasonable biosensor design that is ~uided by simulations.
One of the main challenges of biosensor design is to understand the protein or peptide stability on the chip in high resolution structural detail. Since conventional experimental methods are limited by the resolution for their applications on surface tethered peptides/proteins, a recently developed coarse grained simulation method is employed to explore the peptide/surface interaction in residue-level resolution. This work shows how the coarse grained model successfully describes peptide-surface interactions by evaluating thermal stability of the peptide cecropin PI in bulk solution and on surfaces by physical adsorption and chemical tethering. The simulation also reproduces observations of peptide orientations on the self-assembled monolayer surface from earlier experimental work. Additionally, using knowledge obtained from the simulations, specific mutations are suggested and the desired structure and pose on the surface is obtained. In summary, this work sheds a light on the reasonable biosensor design that is ~uided by simulations.
