Energetics of ion permeation through membrane channels

Calculations of the solvation energetics for a Na+ ion inside the Gramicidin A channel and in water are presented. The protein dipoles Langevin dipoles (PDLD) method is used to obtain an electrostatic free energy profile for ion permeation through the channel. To gauge the quality of the PDLD results the solvation free energy of a Na+ ion in water and in the center of the channel is also calculated using free energy perturbation (FEP) simulations. The effect of the polarisability of the surrounding lipid membrane is taken into account by representing the membrane by a large grid of polarisable point dipoles. The two methods give similar solvation energies in the interior of the channel and these are <5 kcal/mol above the solvation free energy for Na+ in water, in good agreement with experimental data on the activation barriers for ion permeation. It appears that the problems associated with previous calculations of energy profiles in membrane channels can be overcome by a consistent treatment of all the relevant electrostatic contributions. In particular, we find that the induced dipoles of the membrane and the protein contributes with -10 kcal/ mol to the solvation energy inside the channel and can therefore not be discarded in a realistic description of ion solvation in the Gramicidin channel.

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