Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

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 …

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 …

Backmapping triangulated surfaces to coarse-grained membrane models

W Pezeshkian, M König, TA Wassenaar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many biological processes involve large-scale changes in membrane shape. Computer
simulations of these processes are challenging since they occur across a wide range of …

Triglyceride lipolysis triggers liquid crystalline phases in lipid droplets and alters the LD proteome

S Rogers, L Gui, A Kovalenko, V Zoni… - Journal of Cell …, 2022 - rupress.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are reservoirs for triglycerides (TGs) and sterol-esters (SEs), but how
these lipids are organized within LDs and influence their proteome remain unclear. Using in …

Seipin accumulates and traps diacylglycerols and triglycerides in its ring-like structure

V Zoni, R Khaddaj, I Lukmantara… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Lipid droplets (LDs) are intracellular organelles responsible for lipid storage, and they
emerge from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) upon the accumulation of neutral lipids, mostly …

Implementation of residue-level coarse-grained models in GENESIS for large-scale molecular dynamics simulations

C Tan, J Jung, C Kobayashi, DUL Torre… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Residue-level coarse-grained (CG) models have become one of the most popular tools in
biomolecular simulations in the trade-off between modeling accuracy and computational …

[HTML][HTML] Computational modeling of membrane trafficking processes: From large molecular assemblies to chemical specificity

D Alvarez, J Sapia, S Vanni - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last decade, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become an essential tool to
investigate the molecular properties of membrane trafficking processes, often in conjunction …

The SIRAH force field: a suite for simulations of complex biological systems at the coarse-grained and multiscale levels

F Klein, M Soñora, LH Santos, EN Frigini… - Journal of structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
The different combinations of molecular dynamics simulations with coarse-grained
representations have acquired considerable popularity among the scientific community …

Molecular dynamics simulations in photosynthesis

N Liguori, R Croce, SJ Marrink, S Thallmair - Photosynthesis research, 2020 - Springer
Photosynthesis is regulated by a dynamic interplay between proteins, enzymes, pigments,
lipids, and cofactors that takes place on a large spatio-temporal scale. Molecular dynamics …