Multiscale Quantum-Classical Simulation of Protein Autoproteolysis in a Million-Atom Membrane Environment
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arXiv: 2610.23108v1 · Summary page
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A molecular reaction in a million-atom setting
A protein’s chemical reactions do not happen in isolation: surrounding water, membrane and protein structures can alter the energetic landscape. Researchers studying ADGRG1, a cell-surface receptor that cuts itself during maturation, built a computational workflow spanning a realistic environment of more than a million atoms and detailed electronic calculations at the reaction site.
The approach combined molecular dynamics, several electronic-structure methods, a 54-qubit quantum processor and as many as 1,200 graphics processors. Its significance is the integration of these tools across scales, not a claim that a quantum computer simulated the entire receptor or outperformed conventional machines. This preprint presents a route toward studying biologically relevant chemistry while retaining more of its molecular surroundings.
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