As a baseline, each dataset was also simulated using the iterative solver in the commercially available software Abaqus. Datasets were not re-meshed for this purpose. The simulation was performed in parallel on a workstation with 16 CPU cores and 128 GB of RAM. The linear solver was configured to use the iterative method with convergence criterion of 5.0×10−3 for the average flux norm and 1.0×10−2 for displacement corrections.
Xeon e5 2680
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GPU-accelerated Structural Simulation Evaluation
As a baseline, each dataset was also simulated using the iterative solver in the commercially available software Abaqus. Datasets were not re-meshed for this purpose. The simulation was performed in parallel on a workstation with 16 CPU cores and 128 GB of RAM. The linear solver was configured to use the iterative method with convergence criterion of 5.0×10−3 for the average flux norm and 1.0×10−2 for displacement corrections.
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of PDI-hVKORC1 Complex
Each fully relaxed PDI-hVKORC1 complex inserted into the solvated bilayer lipid membrane was simulated during the 0.52 µs MD trajectory. A time step of 2 fs was used to integrate the equations of motion based on the Leap-Frog algorithm [44 (link)]. Coordinate files were recorded every 1 ps. Neighbour searching was performed by the Verlet algorithm [45 (link)]. The Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) method [46 ] with a cut-off of 9.0 Å was used to treat long-range electrostatic interactions at every time step. The van der Waals interactions were modelled using a 6–12 Lennard–Jones potential. The initial velocities were reassigned according to the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution.
Peptide-NLRP3/ASC Interaction Modeling
Interacting residues between the peptide and PYD were identified using a threshold distance of 4.0 Å. Subsequently, we analyzed the computed averages and fluctuations of the interatomic distances of selected residues throughout the entire MD trajectories. Evaluation of the binding affinity of the optimized peptide with the PYD of NLRP3 and ASC involved the extraction of frames from MD trajectories and determination of the binding free energy by applying the molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MMPBSA) method, which has been previously described [70] (link).
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Mutated hVKORC1
A time step of 2 fs was used to integrate the equations of motion based on the Leap-Frog algorithm [57 (link)]. The Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) method, with a cut-off of 22 Å, was used to treat long-range electrostatic interactions at every time step. The van der Waals interactions were modelled using a 6–12 Lennard–Jones potential. The initial velocities were reassigned according to the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. For the molecular complexes, to prevent the separation of the PDI protein from hVKORC1 and to bring them together, the distances between a restrained harmonic distance were introduced to the S⋯S atom pair (the sulphur atoms from C37 of PDI and C43 of hVKORC1), which was varied in a stepwise manner as in [5 (link)]. During each step (100 ns), the constraints were maintained, and then removed, to fully relax the systems. For each system, three 0.5 µs trajectories were carried out with different starting velocities. The coordinates were recorded every 10 ps.
High-Performance Computing for Bioinformatics Research
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of KIT-KID Complexes
The multiple extended trajectories were generated for each equilibrated system: two 2-µs trajectories for KIT with KID, four 1.8-µs replicas for cleaved KID (KIDC) and two 1.8-µs replicas for cleaved KID with the restrained distance (10 Å) between the Cα-atoms of terminal residues, F689 and D768 (KIDCR).
A time step of 2 fs was used to integrate the equations of motion based on the Leap-Frog method. Coordinate files were recorded every 1 ps. Neighbour searching was performed by the Verlet algorithm [56 (link)]. The Particle Mesh Ewald (PME) method, with a cut-off of 10 Å, was used to treat long-range electrostatic interactions at every time step. The van der Waals interactions were modelled using a 6–12 Lennard–Jones potential. The initial velocities were reassigned according to the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution. Coordinates were recorded every 1 ps.
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