Combining Classical MD and QM Calculations to Elucidate Complex System Nucleation: A Twisted, Three-Stranded, Parallel β-Sheet Seeds Amyloid Fibril …

M Mompeán, C González, E Lomba… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
calculations have been utilized to study the conformation and energetics of the initial
structure that acts to nucleate … we find that the initial nucleus is a twisted single-layer, three-stranded …

Molecular Insights into the Dynamics of Amyloid Fibril Growth: Elongation and Lateral Assembly of GNNQQNY Protofibrils

T John, A Rampioni, D Poger… - ACS Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
… linear structure composed of twisted protofibrils with regular … New fibrils nucleate and
elongate also at later times as long … For example, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have …

Molecular simulations of self-assembling bio-inspired supramolecular systems and their connection to experiments

PWJM Frederix, I Patmanidis, SJ Marrink - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
… applied to unravel the complex nucleation kinetics of short … by the combined MD simulations
and electronic calculations. … be included as a target in classical MD as well, as shown by …

Molecular Mechanism of Organic Crystal Nucleation: A Perspective of Solution Chemistry and Polymorphism

J Zhou, Y Zhou, W Tang - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
… theory at the molecular level and non-classical nucleationnucleation but is often explained
as a result of the combined … polymorph system, showing two distinct conformers, ie, “twisted

Graphene nucleation from amorphous nickel carbides: QM/MD studies on the role of subsurface carbon density

M Jiao, H Qian, A Page, K Li, Y Wang… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
… of process control, resulting in twisted domain boundaries. (30… /MD simulations, which consist
of the integration of classical … C@5, carbon atoms readily combined with each other to form …

Multiscale simulations for understanding the evolution and mechanism of hierarchical peptide self-assembly

C Yuan, S Li, Q Zou, Y Ren, X Yan - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
… , leading to even stronger twisting and transformation of the … assemblies may serve as either
nucleation sites or scaffolds; … -Gly) using QM/MD simulations combined with the measured …

Insight into enzymatic C− F Bond formation from QM and QM/MM calculations

HM Senn, D O'Hagan, W Thiel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
… enzymatic system with combined DFT/CHARMM calculations. … classical minimization and
molecular dynamics (MD) runs … between the two degenerate twist forms being <1 kJ mol - 1 . …

Structural evidence of amyloid fibril formation in the putative aggregation domain of TDP-43

M Mompeán, R Hervás, Y Xu, TH Tran… - The journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
… the persistence of both twisting and the H-bond networks. … -like fibril in which β-hairpins
combine in a novel parallel β-turn … RMSD values during MD simulations, calculated with respect …

Primary nucleation kinetics of short fibril-forming amyloidogenic peptides

JA Luiken, PG Bolhuis - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015 - ACS Publications
… we are referring to the classical view of nucleation, in which the … To calculate the steady-state
probabilities ρ A and ρ B , the … The FFS results presented in this work in combination with …

[HTML][HTML] The nucleation and growth mechanism of solid-state amorphization and diffusion behavior at the W–Cu interface

K Wang, G Yao, M Lv, Z Wang, Y Huang… - Composites Part B …, 2024 - Elsevier
… , combined with interfacial stress, results in lattice twisting, … of the W/Cu system by using the
classical MD code Large-scale Atomic/… However, our current MD calculations offer a plausible …