Cosolvent effects on protein stability

DR Canchi, AE García - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Proteins are marginally stable, and the folding/unfolding equilibrium of proteins in aqueous
solution can easily be altered by the addition of small organic molecules known as …

Recent applications of Kirkwood–Buff theory to biological systems

V Pierce, M Kang, M Aburi, S Weerasinghe… - Cell biochemistry and …, 2008 - Springer
The effect of cosolvents on biomolecular equilibria has traditionally been rationalized using
simple binding models. More recently, a renewed interest in the use of Kirkwood–Buff (KB) …

Development of a force field for the simulation of single-chain proteins and protein–protein complexes

S Piana, P Robustelli, D Tan, S Chen… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The accuracy of atomistic physics-based force fields for the simulation of biological
macromolecules has typically been benchmarked experimentally using biophysical data …

Simulation of osmotic pressure in concentrated aqueous salt solutions

Y Luo, B Roux - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2010 - ACS Publications
Accurate force fields are critical for meaningful simulation studies of highly concentrated
electrolytes. The ion models that are widely used in biomolecular simulations do not …

Prediction of self-diffusion coefficient and shear viscosity of water and its binary mixtures with methanol and ethanol by molecular simulation

G Guevara-Carrion, J Vrabec, H Hasse - The Journal of chemical …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Density, self-diffusion coefficient, and shear viscosity of pure liquid water are predicted for
temperatures between 280 and 373 K by molecular dynamics simulation and the Green …

Molecular mechanism for the preferential exclusion of TMAO from protein surfaces

DR Canchi, P Jayasimha, DC Rau… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) is a naturally occurring protecting osmolyte that stabilizes
the folded state of proteins and also counteracts the destabilizing effect of urea on protein …

Convergence of sampling Kirkwood–Buff integrals of aqueous solutions with molecular dynamics simulations

P Ganguly, NFA van der Vegt - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We discuss two methods for calculating Kirkwood–Buff integrals (KBIs) of aqueous cosolvent
solutions from molecular simulations. The first method is based on computing running …

Transport properties of binary Lennard-Jones mixtures: Insights from entropy scaling and conformal solution theory

D Fertig, H Hasse, S Stephan - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
The relation of transport properties and the molecular interactions in binary mixtures was
studied. The self-diffusion coefficient, Maxwell–Stefan as well as Fickian mutual diffusion …

Reduced native state stability in crowded cellular environment due to protein–protein interactions

R Harada, N Tochio, T Kigawa, Y Sugita… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The effect of cellular crowding environments on protein structure and stability is a key issue
in molecular and cellular biology. The classical view of crowding emphasizes the volume …

Influence of dispersive long-range interactions on transport and excess properties of simple mixtures

D Fertig, S Stephan - Molecular Physics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The influence of dispersive long-range interactions on liquid bulk phase transport and
excess properties of six binary Lennard–Jones (LJ) mixtures was studied by molecular …