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@INPROCEEDINGS{Tan:885564,
author = {Tan, Zihan and Dhont, Jan K.G. and Calandrini, Vania and
Naegele, Gerhard},
title = {{Q}uasi-two-dimensional diffusion of interacting protein
monomers and dimers: a {MPC} simulation study},
reportid = {FZJ-2020-03935},
year = {2020},
abstract = {Understanding lateral diffusion of proteins along a
membrane is of importance in biological soft matter science.
An example in case is postsynaptic neuronal signal
transduction where specific proteins diffuse alongside a
postsynaptic membrane, triggering a cascade of biochemical
processes. There are challenging questions to answer such as
how the collective and self-diffusion of the proteins are
affected by their direct and hydrodynamic interactions for
larger areal protein concentrations.Using the multi-particle
collision dynamics (MPC) simulation methods [1], we explore
protein diffusion under quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D)
confinement, for two different model systems of proteins. In
the first system, the proteins are modeled as Brownian
spheres interacting, respectively, by a hard-sphere
potential serving as a reference potential, and by a soft
potential with competing short-range attractive and
long-range repulsive parts. For a minimalistic description
of proteins diffusing along a cytosol-membrane interface,
the Brownian spheres are confined to lateral motion in a
planar monolayer embedded in an unbound three-dimensional
Newtonian fluid. The time scales in the dynamic simulations
extend from very short times where inertial effects are
resolved, up to long times where the solvent-mediated
hydrodynamic interactions between the proteins are fully
developed and non-retarded [2]. By computing velocity
autocorrelation functions, mean-square displacements and
Fourier-space current auto-correlation functions, we
quantify how concentration-induced correlations affect,
e.g., the anomalous enhancement of large-scale collective
diffusion under Q2D confinement [3], and the development of
inter-protein hydrodynamic interactions by multiple
scattering of sound and by vorticity diffusion [2]. The
second model system relates to the diffusion of a human
dumbbell-shaped M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor protein
where one segment is embedded in the neuronal cell membrane,
and the other one in the cytosol. The protein is simply
modeled by a two-beads dimer with the upper bead immersed in
a high-viscosity fluid sheet (fluid A) mimicking the
membrane, and the lower one in a lower-viscosity fluid B
mimicking the intra- and also extracellular environment. We
use a recently developed MPC scheme for generating a fluid
sheet A inside another fluid B [4]. Using this mesoscale
method, diffusion can be probed over time spans not
accessible in atomistic MD simulations of proteins. We study
the mean squared displacement and velocity autocorrelation
function of the individual bead centers, as well as of the
hydrodynamic center of mobility of the dumbbell, in
dependence of the viscosity ratio, sheet thickness, and
interfacial bead distances.References:[1] G. Gompper, T.
Ihle, D. M. Kroll, R. G. Winkler, Adv. Polym. Sci, 221, 1-87
(2008). [2] Z. Tan, J. K. G. Dhont, V. Calandrini, and G.
Nägele, paper in preparation.[3] S. Panzuela and R.
Delgado-Buscalioni, Phys. Rev. Lett., 121, 048101 (2018).[4]
Z. Tan, J. K. G. Dhont, R. G. Winkler, and G. Nägele, paper
in preparation.},
month = {Feb},
date = {2020-02-27},
organization = {NIC Symposium 2020, Jülich (Germany),
27 Feb 2020 - 28 Feb 2020},
subtyp = {Invited},
cin = {IBI-4},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-4-20200312},
pnm = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/885564},
}