Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Multiscale modeling of keratin, collagen, elastin and related human diseases: Perspectives from atomistic to coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations

J Yeo, GS Jung, A Tarakanova… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Scleroproteins are an important category of proteins within the human body that adopt
filamentous, elongated conformations in contrast with typical globular proteins. These …

[HTML][HTML] Protein conformational transitions coupling with ligand interactions: Simulations from molecules to medicine

D Li, B Ji - Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices, 2019 - Elsevier
The functions and activities of proteins are closely related to their structures and dynamics,
and their interactions with ligands. Knowledge of the mechanistic events of proteins' …

Effect of atomic charge, solvation, entropy, and ligand protonation state on MM‐PB (GB) SA binding energies of HIV protease

DP Oehme, RTC Brownlee… - Journal of computational …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The molecular mechanics‐Poisson‐Boltzmann surface area (MM‐PBSA) and MM‐
generalized‐Born surface area (MM‐GBSA) approaches are commonly used in molecular …

Dynamics of a spherical self-propelled tracer in a polymeric medium: interplay of self-propulsion, stickiness, and crowding

RS Yadav, C Das, R Chakrabarti - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We employ computer simulations to study the dynamics of a self-propelled spherical tracer
particle in a viscoelastic medium, made of a long polymer chain. Here, the interplay between …

Mechanism of the association pathways for a pair of fast and slow binding ligands of HIV-1 protease

YM Huang, MAV Raymundo, W Chen, CA Chang - Biochemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Equilibrium constants, together with kinetic rate constants of binding, are key factors in the
efficacy and safety of drug compounds, informing drug design. However, the association …

Insights into the dynamics of HIV-1 protease: a kinetic network model constructed from atomistic simulations

N Deng, W Zheng, E Gallicchio… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The conformational dynamics in the flaps of HIV-1 protease plays a crucial role in the
mechanism of substrate binding. We develop a kinetic network model, constructed from …

Functionalized carbon nanotubes as an alternative to traditional anti-HIV-1 protease inhibitors: An understanding towards Nano-medicine development through MD …

M Panda, P Purohit, Y Wang, BR Meher - Journal of Molecular Graphics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been the source of epidemic
infection of AIDS for a longer period. One of the most difficult tasks is identifying novel …

[HTML][HTML] Strength of hydrogen bond network takes crucial roles in the dissociation process of inhibitors from the HIV-1 protease binding pocket

D Li, B Ji, KC Hwang, Y Huang - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
To understand the underlying mechanisms of significant differences in dissociation rate
constant among different inhibitors for HIV-1 protease, we performed steered molecular …

Pulsed EPR characterization of HIV-1 protease conformational sampling and inhibitor-induced population shifts

Z Liu, TM Casey, ME Blackburn, X Huang… - Physical Chemistry …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The conformational landscape of HIV-1 protease (PR) can be experimentally characterized
by pulsed-EPR double electron–electron resonance (DEER). For this characterization …