A nonlocal modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation and finite element solver for computing electrostatics of biomolecules

Abstract The nonlocal dielectric approach has been studied for more than forty years but only limited to water solvent until the recent work of Xie et al. (2013) [20] . As the development of this recent work, in this paper, a nonlocal modified Poisson–Boltzmann equation (NMPBE) is proposed to incorporate nonlocal dielectric effects into the classic Poisson–Boltzmann equation (PBE) for protein in ionic solvent. The focus of this paper is to present an efficient finite element algorithm and a related software package for solving NMPBE. Numerical results are reported to validate this new software package and demonstrate its high performance for protein molecules. They also show the potential of NMPBE as a better predictor of electrostatic solvation and binding free energies than PBE.

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