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Biomolecular Adsorption on Nanomaterials: Combining Molecular Simulations with Machine Learning
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3302-6410
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK).ORCID iD: 0009-0004-0000-3962
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9390-5719
Number of Authors: 32024 (English)In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, ISSN 1549-9596, E-ISSN 1549-960X, Vol. 64, no 9, p. 3799-3811Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Adsorption free energies of 32 small biomolecules (amino acids side chains, fragments of lipids, and sugar molecules) on 33 different nanomaterials, computed by the molecular dynamics - metadynamics methodology, have been analyzed using statistical machine learning approaches. Multiple unsupervised learning algorithms (principal component analysis, agglomerative clustering, and K-means) as well as supervised linear and nonlinear regression algorithms (linear regression, AdaBoost ensemble learning, artificial neural network) have been applied. As a result, a small set of biomolecules has been identified, knowledge of adsorption free energies of which to a specific nanomaterial can be used to predict, within the developed machine learning model, adsorption free energies of other biomolecules. Furthermore, the methodology of grouping of nanomaterials according to their interactions with biomolecules has been presented.

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2024. Vol. 64, no 9, p. 3799-3811
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Biophysics Theoretical Chemistry Physical Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-229076DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01606ISI: 001203614700001PubMedID: 38623916Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85190749149OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-229076DiVA, id: diva2:1856592
Available from: 2024-05-07 Created: 2024-05-07 Last updated: 2026-01-07Bibliographically approved
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1. Atomistic mechanisms and predictive modeling of biomolecular adsorption on nanomaterial surfaces
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Atomistic mechanisms and predictive modeling of biomolecular adsorption on nanomaterial surfaces
2026 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Molecular simulations provide detailed insight into how biomolecules interact with nanomaterial surfaces. However, quantitative adsorption calculations are computationally demanding, and experimental measurements alone rarely reveal the molecular mechanism of binding. This type of molecular-level understanding is often essential for guiding the design of nanomaterials with improved safety and performance in technological and medical applications. This thesis combines atomistic molecular dynamics, enhanced sampling methods, machine learning, and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring to develop a mechanistic and predictive description of adsorption at nano-bio interfaces. Adsorption free energies were computed for a broad set of biomolecular building blocks on flat and curved ZnS nanostructures, both pristine and polymer-coated, showing how curvature, hydration structure, and polymer layers affect adsorption affinities. Building on this and on the results of previous studies, a consistently generated dataset of adsorption free energies for biomolecular fragments on various nanomaterial surfaces was analyzed using statistical machine-learning tools, revealing that biomolecules and nanomaterials cluster into a few chemically significant classes and that adsorption behavior can be reproduced using a reduced set of representative fragments in simple linear models. The thesis then shifts attention from individual fragments to short peptides, examining how the order of amino acids in a peptide sequence collectively governs adsorption behavior onto TiO2. Extensive MD simulations of sequence permutations of the titanium-binding peptide (min-TBP-1) show how the spatial arrangement of charged and polar residues, together with ion-mediated interactions, determines adsorption affinity, conformational adaptation, and preferred sequence motifs. Finally, a subset of these peptides was studied using enhanced sampling and QCM-D experiments, providing quantitative adsorption free energies and complementary information on adsorption kinetics. The comparison between computed free energies and experimentally derived binding offers a more complete picture of sequence-specific peptide adsorption. Together, these studies advance the molecular understanding of nano-bio interfaces and outline practical strategies for predicting and tailoring biomolecular adsorption on nanomaterials.

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Stockholm: Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University, 2026. p. 78
Keywords
Nanomaterials, ZnS, TiO2, Adsorption free energy, Molecular dynamics simulations, QCM-D
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Physical Chemistry Theoretical Chemistry
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Physical Chemistry
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-250844 (URN)978-91-8107-486-4 (ISBN)978-91-8107-487-1 (ISBN)
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2026-02-20, Magnélisalen, Kemiska övningslaboratoriet, Svante Arrhenius väg 16 B and online via Zoom, public link is available at the department website, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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