Metadynamics

A Barducci, M Bonomi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a powerful technique for enhancing sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations and reconstructing the free‐energy surface as a function of few selected …

Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …

All-atom virus simulations

JA Hadden, JR Perilla - Current opinion in virology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Viral protein simulations are among the largest all-atom simulations ever
published.•All-atom simulations reveal the dynamics of viral proteins at chemical …

Structural and biochemical insights into flavivirus proteins

D Dey, S Poudyal, A Rehman, SS Hasan - Virus Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Flaviviruses are the fastest spreading arthropod-borne viruses that cause severe symptoms
such as hepatitis, hemorrhagic fever, encephalitis, and congenital deformities. Nearly 40 …

Molecular aspects of the dengue virus infection process: A review

LFC Zonetti, MC Coutinho… - Protein and peptide …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: At the present time, dengue is one of the most important arboviruses affecting
man, becoming a serious global public health problem, especially in subtropical and tropical …

High-throughput fitness profiling of Zika virus E protein reveals different roles for glycosylation during infection of mammalian and mosquito cells

D Gong, TH Zhang, D Zhao, Y Du, TJ Chapa, Y Shi… - IScience, 2018 - cell.com
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection causes Guillain-Barré syndrome and severe birth defects. ZIKV
envelope (E) protein is the major viral protein involved in cell receptor binding and entry and …

Insights into the ZIKV NS1 virology from different strains through a fine analysis of physicochemical properties

SA Poveda-Cuevas, C Etchebest… - Acs Omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
The flavivirus genus has several organisms responsible for generating various diseases in
humans. Recently, especially in tropical regions, Zika virus (ZIKV) has raised great health …

Well-tempered metadynamics as a tool for characterizing multi-component, crystalline molecular machines

AJ Ilott, S Palucha, P Hodgkinson… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The well-tempered, smoothly converging form of the metadynamics algorithm has been
implemented in classical molecular dynamics simulations and used to obtain an estimate of …

[HTML][HTML] Structure-based pKa prediction provides a thermodynamic basis for the role of histidines in pH-induced conformational transitions in dengue virus

S Chaudhury, DR Ripoll, A Wallqvist - Biochemistry and biophysics reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract pH-induced conformational changes in dengue virus (DENV) are critical to its ability
to infect host cells. The envelope protein heterodimers that make up the viral envelope shift …

Characterizing a histidine switch controlling pH-dependent conformational changes of the influenza virus hemagglutinin

MR Kalani, A Moradi, M Moradi, E Tajkhorshid - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
During the fusion of the influenza virus to the host cell, bending of the HA2 chain of
hemagglutinin into a hairpin-shaped structure in a pH-dependent manner facilitates the …