Molecular Dynamics Investigation on Shearing between Osteopontin and Hydroxyapatite in Biological Materials

Abstract:

Bone, a hard biological material, possesses a combination of high stiffness and toughness, even though the main basic building blocks of bone are simply mineral platelets and protein molecules. Bone has a very complex microstructure with at least seven hierachical levels. This unique material characteristic attracts great attention, but the deformation mechanisms in bone have not been well understood. Simulation at nanolength scale such as molecular dynamics (MD) is proven to be a powerful tool to investigate bone nanomechanics for developing new artificial biological materials. This study focuses on the ultra large and thin layer of extrafibrillar protein matrix (thickness = ~ 1 nm) located between mineralized collagen fibrils (MCF). Non-collagenous proteins such as osteopontin (OPN) can be found in this protein matrix, while MCF consists mainly of hydroxyapatite (HA) nanoplatelets (thickness = 1.5 4.5 nm). By using molecular dynamics method, an OPN peptide was pulled between two HA mineral platelets with water in presence. Periodic boundary condition (PBC) was applied. The results indicate that the mechanical response of OPN peptide greatly depends on the attractive electrostatics interaction between the acidic residues in OPN peptide and HA mineral surfaces. These bonds restrict the movement of OPN peptide, leading to a high energy dissipation under shear loading.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 891-892)
• Pages: 3-8
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.891-892.3
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Zheng Bo Lai*, Cheng Yan, Adekunle Oloyede
• Keywords: Hydroxyapatite (HA), Molecular Dynamic (MD), Osteopontin

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