Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

From system modeling to system analysis: The impact of resolution level and resolution distribution in the computer-aided investigation of biomolecules

M Giulini, M Rigoli, G Mattiotti, R Menichetti… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ever increasing computer power, together with the improved accuracy of atomistic force
fields, enables researchers to investigate biological systems at the molecular level with …

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 …

Unleashing the potential of noncanonical amino acid biosynthesis to create cells with precision tyrosine sulfation

Y Chen, S Jin, M Zhang, Y Hu, KL Wu, A Chung… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the great promise of genetic code expansion technology to modulate structures and
functions of proteins, external addition of ncAAs is required in most cases and it often limits …

Local energetic frustration conservation in protein families and superfamilies

MI Freiberger, V Ruiz-Serra, C Pontes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Energetic local frustration offers a biophysical perspective to interpret the effects of
sequence variability on protein families. Here we present a methodology to analyze local …

[HTML][HTML] Polarizable and non-polarizable force fields: Protein folding, unfolding, and misfolding

AS Kamenik, PH Handle, F Hofer, U Kahler… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations are an invaluable tool to characterize the dynamic motions
of proteins in atomistic detail. However, the accuracy of models derived from simulations …

OpenAWSEM with Open3SPN2: A fast, flexible, and accessible framework for large-scale coarse-grained biomolecular simulations

W Lu, C Bueno, NP Schafer, J Moller… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We present OpenAWSEM and Open3SPN2, new cross-compatible implementations of
coarse-grained models for protein (AWSEM) and DNA (3SPN2) molecular dynamics …

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 …

Overlaid positive and negative feedback loops shape dynamical properties of PhoPQ two-component system

SD Rao, OA Igoshin - PLoS Computational Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Bacteria use two-component systems (TCSs) to sense environmental conditions and change
gene expression in response to those conditions. To amplify cellular responses, many …

Exploring the folding energy landscapes of heme proteins using a hybrid AWSEM-heme model

X Chen, W Lu, MY Tsai, S Jin, PG Wolynes - Journal of Biological Physics, 2022 - Springer
Heme is an active center in many proteins. Here we explore computationally the role of
heme in protein folding and protein structure. We model heme proteins using a hybrid model …