Advances in the understanding of protein misfolding and aggregation through molecular dynamics simulation

A Rahman, B Saikia, CR Gogoi, A Baruah - Progress in Biophysics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aberrant protein folding known as protein misfolding is counted as one of the striking factors
of neurodegenerative diseases. The extensive range of pathologies caused by protein …

Recent development and application of constant pH molecular dynamics

W Chen, BH Morrow, C Shi, JK Shen - Molecular simulation, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Solution pH is a critical environmental factor for chemical and biological processes. Over the
last decade, significant efforts have been made in the development of constant pH molecular …

Endosomal sorting results in a selective separation of the protein corona from nanoparticles

S Han, R da Costa Marques, J Simon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The formation of the protein corona is a well-known effect when nanoparticles (NP) are
exposed to biological environments. The protein corona is the most important factor, which …

Probing fibronectin conformation on a protein corona layer around nanoparticles

M Raoufi, MJ Hajipour, SMK Shahri, I Schoen, U Linn… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein unfolding induced by nanoparticles (NPs) can lead to exposure of cryptic epitopes
that might dictate biological identity and affect NP biological fate (eg, blood circulation time …

The impact of using single atomistic long-range cutoff schemes with the GROMOS 54A7 force field

TFD Silva, D Vila-Viçosa, PBPS Reis… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
With the recent increase in computing power, the molecular modeling community is now
more focused on improving the accuracy and overall quality of biomolecular simulations. For …

A Fast and Interpretable Deep Learning Approach for Accurate Electrostatics-Driven pKa Predictions in Proteins

PBPS Reis, M Bertolini, F Montanari… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Existing computational methods for estimating p K a values in proteins rely on theoretical
approximations and lengthy computations. In this work, we use a data set of 6 million …

Development of constant-pH simulation methods in implicit solvent and applications in biomolecular systems

FL Barroso daSilva, LG Dias - Biophysical reviews, 2017 - Springer
Abstract pH is a critical parameter for biological and technological systems directly related
with electrical charges. It can give rise to peculiar electrostatic phenomena, which also …

Constant-pH MD simulations of DMPA/DMPC lipid bilayers

HAF Santos, D Vila-Viçosa, VH Teixeira… - Journal of Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Current constant-pH molecular dynamics (CpHMD) simulations provide a proper treatment
of pH effects on the structure and dynamics of soluble biomolecules like peptides and …

Mechanism of unfolding of human prion protein

RK Singh, NG Chamachi, S Chakrabarty… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Misfolding and aggregation of prion proteins are associated with several neurodegenerative
diseases. Therefore, understanding the mechanism of the misfolding process is of enormous …

Role of lipid rafts and GM1 in the segregation and processing of prion protein

L Botto, D Cunati, S Coco, S Sesana, A Bulbarelli… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The prion protein (PrPC) is highly expressed within the nervous system. Similar to other GPI-
anchored proteins, PrPC is found in lipid rafts, membrane domains enriched in cholesterol …