Computational protein structure refinement: almost there, yet still so far to go

M Feig - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Protein structures are essential in modern biology yet experimental methods are far from
being able to catch up with the rapid increase in available genomic data. Computational …

Theory and practice of coarse-grained molecular dynamics of biologically important systems

A Liwo, C Czaplewski, AK Sieradzan, AG Lipska… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics with coarse-grained models is nowadays extensively used to simulate
biomolecular systems at large time and size scales, compared to those accessible to all …

Experimental accuracy in protein structure refinement via molecular dynamics simulations

L Heo, M Feig - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Refinement is the last step in protein structure prediction pipelines to convert approximate
homology models to experimental accuracy. Protocols based on molecular dynamics (MD) …

UNRES server for physics-based coarse-grained simulations and prediction of protein structure, dynamics and thermodynamics

C Czaplewski, A Karczyńska… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A server implementation of the UNRES package (http://www. unres. pl) for coarse-grained
simulations of protein structures with the physics-based UNRES model, coined a name …

A general method for the derivation of the functional forms of the effective energy terms in coarse-grained energy functions of polymers. III. Determination of scale …

A Liwo, AK Sieradzan, AG Lipska… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The general theory of the construction of scale-consistent energy terms in the coarse-
grained force fields presented in Paper I of this series has been applied to the revision of the …

Trajectory-based training enables protein simulations with accurate folding and Boltzmann ensembles in cpu-hours

JM Jumper, NF Faruk, KF Freed… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
An ongoing challenge in protein chemistry is to identify the underlying interaction energies
that capture protein dynamics. The traditional trade-off in biomolecular simulation between …

Modeling protein structures with the coarse-grained UNRES force field in the CASP14 experiment

A Antoniak, I Biskupek, KK Bojarski… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The UNited RESidue (UNRES) force field was tested in the 14th Community Wide
Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction …

Structure and physicochemical properties of the Aβ42 tetramer: multiscale molecular dynamics simulations

HL Nguyen, P Krupa, NM Hai, HQ Linh… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite years of intensive research, little is known about oligomeric structures present
during Alzheimer's disease (AD). Excess of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides and their …

Insight into the initial stages of the folding process in onconase revealed by UNRES

E Hendrix, S Motta, RF Gahl, Y He - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The unfolded state of proteins presents many challenges to elucidate the structural basis for
biological function. This state is characterized by a large degree of structural heterogeneity …

Modeling the structure, dynamics, and transformations of proteins with the UNRES force field

AK Sieradzan, C Czaplewski, P Krupa… - Protein folding: Methods …, 2022 - Springer
The physics-based united-residue (UNRES) model of proteins (www. unres. pl) has been
designed to carry out large-scale simulations of protein folding. The force field has been …