Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Pathways of amyloid-β aggregation depend on oligomer shape

B Barz, Q Liao, B Strodel - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
One of the main research topics related to Alzheimer's disease is the aggregation of the
amyloid-β peptide, which was shown to follow different pathways for the two major alloforms …

Structural characterization of highly flexible proteins by small-angle scattering

TN Cordeiro, F Herranz-Trillo, A Urbanek… - Biological small angle …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) are fundamental actors of biological
processes. Their inherent plasticity facilitates very specialized tasks in cell regulation and …

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 …

SPICA force field for proteins and peptides

S Kawamoto, H Liu, Y Miyazaki, S Seo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A coarse-grained (CG) model for peptides and proteins was developed as an extension of
the Surface Property fItting Coarse grAined (SPICA) force field (FF). The model was …

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 …

Modeling the Dynamics of Protein–Protein Interfaces, How and Why?

E Karaca, C Prévost, S Sacquin-Mora - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Protein–protein assemblies act as a key component in numerous cellular processes. Their
accurate modeling at the atomic level remains a challenge for structural biology. To address …

Discrete molecular dynamics approach to the study of disordered and aggregating proteins

A Emperador, M Orozco - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present a refinement of the Coarse Grained PACSAB force field for Discrete Molecular
Dynamics (DMD) simulations of proteins in aqueous conditions. As the original version, the …

Enzymatic halogenation: enzyme mining, mechanisms, and implementation in reaction cascades

S Dachwitz, C Widmann, M Frese, HH Niemann… - 2020 - books.rsc.org
Regioselective halogenation of organic compounds using non-toxic halide salts and oxygen
in aqueous media at ambient temperatures–a tough task for conventional chemical …

Computing the rotational diffusion of biomolecules via molecular dynamics simulation and quaternion orientations

PC Chen, M Hologne, O Walker - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Rotational diffusion (D rot) is a fundamental property of biomolecules that contains
information about molecular dimensions and solute–solvent interactions. While ab initio D …