Biomolecular modeling and simulation: a prospering multidisciplinary field

T Schlick, S Portillo-Ledesma, CG Myers… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We reassess progress in the field of biomolecular modeling and simulation, following up on
our perspective published in 2011. By reviewing metrics for the field's productivity and …

DynamicBind: Predicting ligand-specific protein-ligand complex structure with a deep equivariant generative model

W Lu, J Zhang, W Huang, Z Zhang, X Jia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
While significant advances have been made in predicting static protein structures, the
inherent dynamics of proteins, modulated by ligands, are crucial for understanding protein …

Molecular frustration: a hypothesis for regulation of viral infections

R Twarock, GJ Towers, PG Stockley - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
The recent revolution in imaging techniques and results from RNA footprinting in situ reveal
how the bacteriophage MS2 genome regulates both particle assembly and genome release …

Surveying biomolecular frustration at atomic resolution

M Chen, X Chen, NP Schafer, C Clementi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To function, biomolecules require sufficient specificity of interaction as well as stability to live
in the cell while still being able to move. Thermodynamic stability of only a limited number of …

Computationally exploring the mechanism of bacteriophage T7 gp4 helicase translocating along ssDNA

S Jin, C Bueno, W Lu, Q Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Bacteriophage T7 gp4 helicase has served as a model system for understanding
mechanisms of hexameric replicative helicase translocation. The mechanistic basis of how …

[HTML][HTML] Computational reconstruction of atomistic protein structures from coarse-grained models

AE Badaczewska-Dawid, A Kolinski… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional protein structures, whether determined experimentally or theoretically,
are often too low resolution. In this mini-review, we outline the computational methods for …

Protein structure prediction in casp13 using awsem-suite

S Jin, M Chen, X Chen, C Bueno, W Lu… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recently several techniques have emerged that significantly enhance the quality of
predictions of protein tertiary structures. In this study, we describe the performance of …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular-replacement phasing using predicted protein structures from AWSEM-Suite

S Jin, MD Miller, M Chen, NP Schafer, X Lin, X Chen… - IUCrJ, 2020 - journals.iucr.org
The phase problem in X-ray crystallography arises from the fact that only the intensities, and
not the phases, of the diffracting electromagnetic waves are measured directly. Molecular …

Protein structure refinement guided by atomic packing frustration analysis

M Chen, X Chen, S Jin, W Lu, X Lin… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in machine learning, bioinformatics, and the understanding of the folding
problem have enabled efficient predictions of protein structures with moderate accuracy …

Disorder Mediated Oligomerization of DISC1 Proteins Revealed by Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations

J Roche, DA Potoyan - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
Disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) is a scaffold protein of significant importance for
neuro-development and a prominent candidate protein in the etiology of mental disorders. In …