Polarizable force fields for biomolecular simulations: Recent advances and applications

Z Jing, C Liu, SY Cheng, R Qi, BD Walker… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Realistic modeling of biomolecular systems requires an accurate treatment of electrostatics,
including electronic polarization. Due to recent advances in physical models, simulation …

CHARMM at 45: Enhancements in accessibility, functionality, and speed

W Hwang, SL Austin, A Blondel… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Since its inception nearly a half century ago, CHARMM has been playing a central role in
computational biochemistry and biophysics. Commensurate with the developments in …

Critical knowledge gaps in mass transport through single-digit nanopores: A review and perspective

S Faucher, N Aluru, MZ Bazant… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Not all nanopores are created equal. By definition, nanopores have characteristic diameters
or conduit widths between∼ 1 and 100 nm. However, the narrowest of such pores, perhaps …

Parameterization of monovalent ions for the OPC3, OPC, TIP3P-FB, and TIP4P-FB water models

A Sengupta, Z Li, LF Song, P Li… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Monovalent ions play significant roles in various biological and material systems. Recently,
four new water models (OPC3, OPC, TIP3P-FB, and TIP4P-FB), with significantly improved …

[HTML][HTML] A practical guide to biologically relevant molecular simulations with charge scaling for electronic polarization

E Duboue-Dijon, M Javanainen, P Delcroix… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular simulations can elucidate atomistic-level mechanisms of key biological
processes, which are often hardly accessible to experiment. However, the results of the …

The oxytocin signaling complex reveals a molecular switch for cation dependence

JG Meyerowitz, MJ Robertson… - Nature Structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) are conserved peptide signaling hormones that are
critical for diverse processes including osmotic homeostasis, reproduction, lactation and …

AMOEBA+ classical potential for modeling molecular interactions

C Liu, JP Piquemal, P Ren - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Classical potentials based on isotropic and additive atomic charges have been widely used
to model molecules in computers for the past few decades. The crude approximations in the …

Automation of AMOEBA polarizable force field for small molecules: Poltype 2

B Walker, C Liu, E Wait, P Ren - Journal of computational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A next‐generation protocol (Poltype 2) has been developed which automatically generates
AMOEBA polarizable force field parameters for small molecules. Both features and …

SARS-CoV-2 fusion peptide has a greater membrane perturbating effect than SARS-CoV with highly specific dependence on Ca2+

AL Lai, JH Freed - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Coronaviruses are a major infectious disease threat, and include the zoonotic-origin human
pathogens SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV (SARS-2, SARS-1, and MERS). Entry …

Polarisable force fields: what do they add in biomolecular simulations?

VSS Inakollu, DP Geerke, CN Rowley, H Yu - Current Opinion in Structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Induced polarisation is an essential component of biomolecular interactions like
cation-pi, hydrogen bonding, and ionic interactions.•Advances in simulation algorithms and …