From system modeling to system analysis: The impact of resolution level and resolution distribution in the computer-aided investigation of biomolecules

M Giulini, M Rigoli, G Mattiotti, R Menichetti… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ever increasing computer power, together with the improved accuracy of atomistic force
fields, enables researchers to investigate biological systems at the molecular level with …

Theory and practice of coarse-grained molecular dynamics of biologically important systems

A Liwo, C Czaplewski, AK Sieradzan, AG Lipska… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics with coarse-grained models is nowadays extensively used to simulate
biomolecular systems at large time and size scales, compared to those accessible to all …

AWSEM-IDP: a coarse-grained force field for intrinsically disordered proteins

H Wu, PG Wolynes, GA Papoian - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The associative memory, water-mediated, structure and energy model (AWSEM) has been
successfully used to study protein folding, binding, and aggregation problems. In this work …

RACER-m leverages structural features for sparse T cell specificity prediction

A Wang, X Lin, KN Chau, JN Onuchic, H Levine… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Reliable prediction of T cell specificity against antigenic signatures is a formidable task,
complicated by the immense diversity of T cell receptor and antigen sequence space and …

Aggregation landscapes of Huntingtin exon 1 protein fragments and the critical repeat length for the onset of Huntington's disease

M Chen, PG Wolynes - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by an abnormal
expansion in the polyglutamine (polyQ) track of the Huntingtin (HTT) protein. The severity of …

Exploring energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins: Insights into functional mechanisms

AB Oliveira Junior, X Lin, P Kulkarni… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack a rigid three-dimensional structure and populate
a polymorphic ensemble of conformations. Because of the lack of a reference conformation …

BAP1 forms a trimer with HMGB1 and HDAC1 that modulates gene× environment interaction with asbestos

F Novelli, A Bononi, Q Wang, F Bai… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Carriers of heterozygous germline BAP1 mutations (BAP1+/−) are affected by the “BAP1
cancer syndrome.” Although they can develop almost any cancer type, they are unusually …

Illuminating intrinsically disordered proteins with integrative structural biology

R Evans, S Ramisetty, P Kulkarni, K Weninger - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intense study of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) did not begin in earnest until the late
1990s when a few groups, working independently, convinced the community that these …

PAGE4 and conformational switching: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations and implications for prostate cancer

X Lin, S Roy, MK Jolly, F Bocci, NP Schafer… - Journal of molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Prostate-associated gene 4 (PAGE4) is an intrinsically disordered protein
implicated in prostate cancer. Thestress-response kinase homeodomain-interacting protein …

Protein structure prediction: Making AWSEM AWSEM‐ER by adding evolutionary restraints

BJ Sirovetz, NP Schafer… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Protein sequences have evolved to fold into functional structures, resulting in families of
diverse protein sequences that all share the same overall fold. One can harness protein …