Physics-driven coarse-grained model for biomolecular phase separation with near-quantitative accuracy

JA Joseph, A Reinhardt, A Aguirre, PY Chew… - Nature Computational …, 2021 - nature.com
Various physics-and data-driven sequence-dependent protein coarse-grained models have
been developed to study biomolecular phase separation and elucidate the dominant …

[HTML][HTML] Phase diagrams—Why they matter and how to predict them

PY Chew, A Reinhardt - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding the thermodynamic stability and metastability of materials can help us to, for
example, gauge whether crystalline polymorphs in pharmaceutical formulations are likely to …

Reentrant liquid condensate phase of proteins is stabilized by hydrophobic and non-ionic interactions

G Krainer, TJ Welsh, JA Joseph, P St George-Hyslop… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
Many cellular proteins demix spontaneously from solution to form liquid condensates. These
phase-separated structures have wide-ranging roles in health and disease. Elucidating the …

Aging can transform single-component protein condensates into multiphase architectures

A Garaizar, JR Espinosa, JA Joseph… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Phase-separated biomolecular condensates that contain multiple coexisting phases are
widespread in vitro and in cells. Multiphase condensates emerge readily within …

Liquid network connectivity regulates the stability and composition of biomolecular condensates with many components

JR Espinosa, JA Joseph… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
One of the key mechanisms used by cells to control the spatiotemporal organization of their
many components is the formation and dissolution of biomolecular condensates through …

[HTML][HTML] Nucleosome plasticity is a critical element of chromatin liquid–liquid phase separation and multivalent nucleosome interactions

SE Farr, EJ Woods, JA Joseph, A Garaizar… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) is an important mechanism that helps explain the
membraneless compartmentalization of the nucleus. Because chromatin compaction and …

Seeding approach to crystal nucleation

JR Espinosa, C Vega, C Valeriani… - The Journal of chemical …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present a study of homogeneous crystal nucleation from metastable fluids via the
seeding technique for four different systems: mW water, Tosi-Fumi NaCl, Lennard-Jones …

[HTML][HTML] Automated discovery of a robust interatomic potential for aluminum

JS Smith, B Nebgen, N Mathew, J Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning, trained on quantum mechanics (QM) calculations, is a powerful
tool for modeling potential energy surfaces. A critical factor is the quality and diversity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Thermodynamics and kinetics of phase separation of protein-RNA mixtures by a minimal model

JA Joseph, JR Espinosa, I Sanchez-Burgos… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
Intracellular liquid-liquid phase separation enables the formation of biomolecular
condensates, such as ribonucleoprotein granules, which play a crucial role in the …

Consensus on the solubility of NaCl in water from computer simulations using the chemical potential route

AL Benavides, JL Aragones, C Vega - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The solubility of NaCl in water is evaluated by using three force field models: Joung–
Cheatham for NaCl dissolved in two different water models (SPC/E and TIP4P/2005) and …