Bottom-up coarse-graining: Principles and perspectives

J Jin, AJ Pak, AEP Durumeric, TD Loose… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Large-scale computational molecular models provide scientists a means to investigate the
effect of microscopic details on emergent mesoscopic behavior. Elucidating the relationship …

General patchy ellipsoidal particle model for the aggregation behaviors of shape-and/or surface-anisotropic building blocks

ZW Li, YL Zhu, ZY Lu, ZY Sun - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a general patchy ellipsoidal particle model suitable for conducting dynamics
simulations of the aggregation behaviors of various shape-and/or surface-anisotropic …

Coarse-Grained modeling of nucleic acids using anisotropic Gay–Berne and electric multipole potentials

G Li, H Shen, D Zhang, Y Li… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this work, we attempt to apply a coarse-grained (CG) model, which is based on
anisotropic Gay–Berne and electric multipole (EMP) potentials, to the modeling of nucleic …

Anisotropic coarse-grained model for proteins based on Gay–Berne and electric multipole potentials

H Shen, Y Li, P Ren, D Zhang, G Li - Journal of chemical theory …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Gay–Berne anisotropic potential has been widely used to evaluate the nonbonded
interactions between coarse-grained particles being described as elliptical rigid bodies. In …

Physics-based potentials for the coupling between backbone-and side-chain-local conformational states in the united residue (UNRES) force field for protein …

AK Sieradzan, P Krupa, HA Scheraga… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The UNited RESidue (UNRES) model of polypeptide chains is a coarse-grained model in
which each amino-acid residue is reduced to two interaction sites, namely, a united peptide …

A review of physics-based coarse-grained potentials for the simulations of protein structure and dynamics

H Shen, Z Xia, G Li, P Ren - Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
By simplifying the atomistic representation of a biomolecular system, coarse-grained (CG)
approach enables the molecular dynamics simulation to reveal the biological processes …

Liposomal nanohybrid cerasomes for mitochondria-targeted drug delivery

Y Wang, B Wang, H Liao, X Song, H Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Mitochondrial dysfunctions cause numerous human disorders and the development of
mitochondria-targeted nanocarriers for drug delivery has aroused great attention. Herein, we …

[HTML][HTML] Coarse-graining involving virtual sites: Centers of symmetry coarse-graining

J Jin, Y Han, GA Voth - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Coarse-grained (CG) models allow efficient molecular simulation by reducing the degrees of
freedom in the system. To recapitulate important physical properties, including many-body …

Development, Validation, and Applications of Nonbonded Interaction Parameters between Coarse-Grained Amino Acid and Water Models

E Mohammadi, SY Joshi, SA Deshmukh - Biomacromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interactions between amino acids and water play an important role in determining the
stability and folding/unfolding, in aqueous solution, of many biological macromolecules …

Dissipative particle dynamics simulations for phospholipid membranes based on a four-to-one coarse-grained mapping scheme

X Li, L Gao, W Fang - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
In this article, a new set of parameters compatible with the dissipative particle dynamics
(DPD) force field is developed for phospholipids. The coarse-grained (CG) models of these …