In this article, we present a method for the enhanced molecular dynamics simulation of protein and DNA systems called potential of mean force (PMF)-enriched sampling. The method uses partitions derived from the potentials of mean force, which we determined from DNA and protein structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). We define a partition function from a set of PDB-derived PMFs, which efficiently compensates for the error introduced by the assumption of a homogeneous partition function from the PDB datasets. The bias based on the PDB-derived partitions is added in the form of a hybrid Hamiltonian using a renormalization method, which adds the PMF-enriched gradient to the system depending on a linear weighting factor and the underlying force field. We validated the method using simulations of dialanine, the folding of TrpCage, and the conformational sampling of the Dickerson⁻Drew DNA dodecamer. Our results show the potential for the PMF-enriched simulation technique to enrich the conformational space of biomolecules along their order parameters, while we also observe a considerable speed increase in the sampling by factors ranging from 13.1 to 82. The novel method can effectively be combined with enhanced sampling or coarse-graining methods to enrich conformational sampling with a partition derived from the PDB.

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