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 …

Visualization of reaction route map and dynamical trajectory in reduced dimension

T Tsutsumi, Y Ono, T Taketsugu - Chemical communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In the quantum chemical approach, chemical reaction mechanisms are investigated based
on a potential energy surface (PES). Automated reaction path search methods enable us to …

Salt-induced transitions in the conformational ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins

H Maity, L Baidya, G Reddy - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Salts modulate the behavior of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and influence the
formation of membraneless organelles through liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). In …

Characterizing the Folding Transition-State Ensembles in the Energy Landscape of an RNA Tetraloop

RG Viegas, MN Sanches, AA Chen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly powerful and can now
describe the folding/unfolding of small biomolecules in atomic detail. However, a major …

Lighting up Nobel Prize-winning studies with protein intrinsic disorder

L Piersimoni, M Abd el Malek, T Bhatia… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (IDPs and IDRs) and their importance in biology
are becoming increasingly recognized in biology, biochemistry, molecular biology and …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: ensembles at the limits of Anfinsen's dogma

P Kulkarni, VBP Leite, S Roy, S Bhattacharyya… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins that lack rigid 3D structure. Hence, they
are often misconceived to present a challenge to Anfinsen's dogma. However, IDPs exist as …

Examining the ensembles of amyloid-β monomer variants and their propensities to form fibers using an energy landscape visualization method

MN Sanches, K Knapp, AB Oliveira Jr… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The amyloid-β (Aβ) monomer, an intrinsically disordered peptide, is produced by the
cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein, leading to Aβ-40 and Aβ-42 as major products …

Probing Mastoparan-like Antimicrobial Peptides Interaction with Model Membrane Through Energy Landscape Analysis

IBS Martins, RG Viegas, MN Sanches… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) have emerged as promising alternatives to conventional
antibiotics due to their capacity to disrupt the lipid packing of bacterial cell membranes. This …

Evolution of Sequence and Structure of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein: A Dynamic Perspective

A Sinha, S Sangeet, S Roy - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) enters its host cell through a surface spike protein. The
viral spike protein has undergone several modifications/mutations at the genomic level …

Exploring the folding landscape of leptin: Insights into threading pathways

FB da Silva, JM Simien, RG Viegas, E Haglund… - Journal of Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
The discovery of new protein topologies with entanglements and loop-crossings have
shown the impact of local amino acid arrangement and global three-dimensional structures …