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Image Charge Method for Reaction Fields in a Hybrid Ion-Channel Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Zhenli Xu ,
Wei Cai  and
Xiaolin Cheng
Zhenli Xu*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Wei Cai*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Beijing 100871, China
Xiaolin Cheng*
Affiliation:
Center for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
*
Corresponding author.Email:xuzl@sjtu.edu.cn
Email:wcai@uncc.edu
Email:chengx@ornl.gov
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Abstract

A multiple-image method is proposed to approximate the reaction-field potential of a source charge inside a finite length cylinder due to the electric polarization of the surrounding membrane and bulk water. When applied to a hybrid ion-channel model, this method allows a fast and accurate treatment of the electrostatic interactions of protein with membrane and solvent. To treat the channel/membrane interface boundary conditions of the electric potential, an optimization approach is used to derive image charges by fitting the reaction-field potential expressed in terms of cylindric harmonics. Meanwhile, additional image charges are introduced to satisfy the boundary conditions at the planar membrane interfaces. In the end, we convert the electrostatic interaction problem in a complex inhomogeneous system of ion channel/membrane/water into one in a homogeneous free space embedded with discrete charges (the source charge and image charges). The accuracy of this method is then validated numerically in calculating the solvation self-energy of a point charge.

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31B0592C0565Z05Ion channelsimage chargescylindrical harmonicselectrostatic interactions

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Communications in Computational Physics , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , April 2011 , pp. 1056 - 1070
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Copyright © Global Science Press Limited 2011

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