Perspective: Advances, challenges, and insight for predictive coarse-grained models

WG Noid - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
By averaging over atomic details, coarse-grained (CG) models provide profound
computational and conceptual advantages for studying soft materials. In particular, bottom …

Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

Molecular dynamics simulation of an entire cell

JA Stevens, F Grünewald, PAM van Tilburg… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The ultimate microscope, directed at a cell, would reveal the dynamics of all the cell's
components with atomic resolution. In contrast to their real-world counterparts …

Martini 3 coarse-grained force field for carbohydrates

F Grünewald, MH Punt, EE Jefferys… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Martini 3 force field is a full reparametrization of the Martini coarse-grained model for
biomolecular simulations. Due to the improved interaction balance, it allows for a more …

Molecular modeling insights into the structure and behavior of integrins: A review

I Tvaroška, S Kozmon, J Kóňa - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Integrins are heterodimeric glycoproteins crucial to the physiology and pathology of many
biological functions. As adhesion molecules, they mediate immune cell trafficking, migration …

Applications of molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery

S AlRawashdeh, KH Barakat - Computational Drug Discovery and Design, 2023 - Springer
In the current drug development process, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have proven
to be very useful. This chapter provides an overview of the current applications of MD …

Facilitating CG simulations with MAD: The MArtini database server

C Hilpert, L Beranger, PCT Souza… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The MArtini Database (MAD-https://mad. ibcp. fr) is a web server designed for the sharing of
structures and topologies of molecules parametrized with the Martini coarse-grained (CG) …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning implicit solvation for molecular dynamics

Y Chen, A Krämer, NE Charron, BE Husic… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate modeling of the solvent environment for biological molecules is crucial for
computational biology and drug design. A popular approach to achieve long simulation time …

Martini 3 coarse-grained force field for cholesterol

L Borges-Araújo, AC Borges-Araújo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cholesterol plays a crucial role in biomembranes by regulating various properties, such as
fluidity, rigidity, permeability, and organization of lipid bilayers. The latest version of the …

Martini-3 Coarse-Grained Models for the Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide Outer Membrane of Escherichia coli

R Vaiwala, KG Ayappa - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The outer lipopolysaccharide (LPS) membrane of Gram-negative bacteria forms the main
barrier for transport of antimicrobial molecules into the bacterial cell. In this study we develop …