Challenges in protein-folding simulations

PL Freddolino, CB Harrison, Y Liu, K Schulten - Nature physics, 2010 - nature.com
Experimental studies of protein folding are hampered by the fact that only low-resolution
structural data can be obtained with sufficient temporal resolution. Molecular dynamics …

Identification of slow molecular order parameters for Markov model construction

G Pérez-Hernández, F Paul, T Giorgino… - The Journal of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A goal in the kinetic characterization of a macromolecular system is the description of its
slow relaxation processes via (i) identification of the structural changes involved in these …

Markov models of molecular kinetics: Generation and validation

JH Prinz, H Wu, M Sarich, B Keller, M Senne… - The Journal of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Markov state models of molecular kinetics (MSMs), in which the long-time statistical
dynamics of a molecule is approximated by a Markov chain on a discrete partition of …

Fast protein folding kinetics

H Gelman, M Gruebele - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Fast-folding proteins have been a major focus of computational and experimental study
because they are accessible to both techniques: they are small and fast enough to be …

Variational approach to molecular kinetics

F Nuske, BG Keller, G Pérez-Hernández… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the molecular dynamics propagator (or transfer
operator) contain the essential information about the molecular thermodynamics and …

Markov state models based on milestoning

C Schütte, F Noé, J Lu, M Sarich… - The Journal of chemical …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Markov state models (MSMs) have become the tool of choice to analyze large amounts of
molecular dynamics data by approximating them as a Markov jump process between …

EMMA: a software package for Markov model building and analysis

M Senne, B Trendelkamp-Schroer… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The study of folding and conformational changes of macromolecules by molecular dynamics
simulations often requires the generation of large amounts of simulation data that are difficult …

Probing molecular kinetics with Markov models: metastable states, transition pathways and spectroscopic observables

JH Prinz, B Keller, F Noé - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Markov (state) models (MSMs) have attracted a lot of interest recently as they (1) can probe
long-term molecular kinetics based on short-time simulations,(2) offer a way to analyze great …

The free energy landscape of small molecule unbinding

D Huang, A Caflisch - PLoS computational biology, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The spontaneous dissociation of six small ligands from the active site of FKBP (the FK506
binding protein) is investigated by explicit water molecular dynamics simulations and …

All-atom model for stabilization of α-helical structure in peptides by hydrocarbon staples

PS Kutchukian, JS Yang, GL Verdine… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Recent work has shown that the incorporation of an all-hydrocarbon “staple” into peptides
can greatly increase their α-helix propensity, leading to an improvement in pharmaceutical …