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Published online June 25, 2007
doi:10.1085/jgp.200709810
The Journal of General Physiology, Vol. 130, No. 1, 111-116
The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1295 $30.00
© 2007 Mamonov et al.
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 Water and Deuterium Oxide Permeability through Aquaporin 1: MD Predictions and Experimental Verification



Artem B. Mamonov1, Rob D. Coalson1, Mark L. Zeidel2, and John C. Mathai2

1 Department of Chemistry and 2 Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Correspondence to John Mathai: jmathai{at}bidmc.harvard.edu

Determining the mechanisms of flux through protein channels requires a combination of structural data, permeability measurement, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To further clarify the mechanism of flux through aquaporin 1 (AQP1), osmotic pf (cm3/s/pore) and diffusion pd (cm3/s/pore) permeability coefficients per pore of H2O and D2O in AQP1 were calculated using MD simulations. We then compared the simulation results with experimental measurements of the osmotic AQP1 permeabilities of H2O and D2O. In this manner we evaluated the ability of MD simulations to predict actual flux results. For the MD simulations, the force field parameters of the D2O model were reparameterized from the TIP3P water model to reproduce the experimentally observed difference in the bulk self diffusion constants of H2O vs. D2O. Two MD systems (one for each solvent) were constructed, each containing explicit palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidyl-ethanolamine (POPE) phospholipid molecules, solvent, and AQP1. It was found that the calculated value of pf for D2O is ~15% smaller than for H2O. Bovine AQP1 was reconstituted into palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) liposomes, and it was found that the measured macroscopic osmotic permeability coefficient Pf (cm/s) of D2O is ~21% lower than for H2O. The combined computational and experimental results suggest that deuterium oxide permeability through AQP1 is similar to that of water. The slightly lower observed osmotic permeability of D2O compared to H2O in AQP1 is most likely due to the lower self diffusion constant of D2O.

Abbreviations used in this paper: AQP1, aquaporin 1; MD, molecular dynamics.


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