[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Computational modeling of realistic cell membranes

SJ Marrink, V Corradi, PCT Souza, HI Ingolfsson… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cell membranes contain a large variety of lipid types and are crowded with proteins,
endowing them with the plasticity needed to fulfill their key roles in cell functioning. The …

[HTML][HTML] A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Molecular sizes and antibacterial performance relationships of flexible ionic liquid derivatives

L Zheng, J Li, M Yu, W Jia, S Duan, D Cao… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cationic agents, such as ionic liquids (ILs)-based species, have broad-spectrum
antibacterial activities. However, the antibacterial mechanisms lack systematic and …

Computational Lipidomics with insane: A Versatile Tool for Generating Custom Membranes for Molecular Simulations

TA Wassenaar, HI Ingólfsson… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
For simulations of membranes and membrane proteins, the generation of the lipid bilayer is
a critical step in the setup of the system. Membranes comprising multiple components pose …

Pressure control using stochastic cell rescaling

M Bernetti, G Bussi - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations require barostats to be performed at a constant pressure.
The usual recipe is to employ the Berendsen barostat first, which displays a first-order …

Characterization of lipid–protein interactions and lipid-mediated modulation of membrane protein function through molecular simulation

MP Muller, T Jiang, C Sun, M Lihan, S Pant… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The cellular membrane constitutes one of the most fundamental compartments of a living
cell, where key processes such as selective transport of material and exchange of …

CG2AT2: an enhanced fragment-based approach for serial multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations

ON Vickery, PJ Stansfeld - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics provides a means for simulating the assembly and
interactions of macromolecular complexes at a reduced level of representation, thereby …

g_membed: Efficient insertion of a membrane protein into an equilibrated lipid bilayer with minimal perturbation

MG Wolf, M Hoefling… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
To efficiently insert a protein into an equilibrated and fully hydrated membrane with minimal
membrane perturbation we present a computational tool, called g_membed, which is part of …

Perturbations of native membrane protein structure in alkyl phosphocholine detergents: a critical assessment of NMR and biophysical studies

C Chipot, F Dehez, JR Schnell, N Zitzmann… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins perform a host of vital cellular functions. Deciphering the molecular
mechanisms whereby they fulfill these functions requires detailed biophysical and structural …