Water in nanopores and biological channels: a molecular simulation perspective

CI Lynch, S Rao, MSP Sansom - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Review explores the dynamic behavior of water within nanopores and biological
channels in lipid bilayer membranes. We focus on molecular simulation studies, alongside …

An Efficient N3-Scaling Propagation Scheme for Simulating Two-Dimensional Infrared and Visible Spectra

C Liang, TLC Jansen - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2012 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we develop and test a new approximate propagation scheme for calculating
two-dimensional infrared and visible spectra. The new scheme scales one order more …

Solvent and conformation dependence of amide I vibrations in peptides and proteins containing proline

S Roy, J Lessing, G Meisl, Z Ganim… - The Journal of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We present a mixed quantum-classical model for studying the amide I vibrational dynamics
(predominantly CO stretching) in peptides and proteins containing proline. There are …

Vibrational excitons in ionophores: Experimental probes for quantum coherence-assisted ion transport and selectivity in ion channels

Z Ganim, A Tokmakoff, A Vaziri - New Journal of Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite there being a large body of work, the exact molecular details underlying ion
selectivity and transport in the potassium channel have not been fully uncovered. One major …

Frequency distribution of the amide-I vibration sorted by residues in amyloid fibrils revealed by 2D-IR measurements and simulations

C Falvo, W Zhuang, YS Kim, PH Axelsen… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The infrared optical response of amyloid fibrils Aβ1–40 is investigated. Simulations of two
models corresponding to different protonation states are compared with experiment. The …

Role of water in physics of blood and cerebrospinal fluid

A Kholmanskiy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.03778, 2023 - arxiv.org
Known physical mechanisms of temperature dependence anomalies of water properties
were used to explain the regularities in temperature dependence (TDs) of dynamic …

Tracking the mechanism of fibril assembly by simulated two-dimensional ultraviolet spectroscopy

AR Lam, JJ Rodriguez, A Rojas… - The journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the
accumulation of plaque deposits in the human brain. The main component of these plaques …

Proton transport in a membrane protein channel: Two-dimensional infrared spectrum modeling

C Liang, J Knoester, TLC Jansen - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We model the two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectrum of a proton channel to investigate
its applicability as a spectroscopy tool to study the proton transport process in biological …

A new interpretation of the meaning of the center of line slope from a two-dimensional infrared spectrum

C Falvo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This article presents a new approximation to understand the connection between the center
of line slope from a single peak of a two-dimensional (2D) infrared spectrum and the …

Connection of brain glymphatic system with circadian rhythm

A Kholmanskiy - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
To establish the relationship between the glymphatic system of the brain and the circadian
rhythm, we analyzed the effect of anomalies in water thermodynamics on the dependence of …