Multistate folding of the villin headpiece domain

Y Tang, MJ Grey, J McKnight, AG Palmer III… - Journal of molecular …, 2006 - Elsevier
The villin headpiece (HP67) is a 67 residue, monomeric protein derived from the C-terminal
domain of villin. Wild-type HP67 (WT HP67) is the smallest fragment of villin that retains …

Roadmap methods for protein folding

M Moll, D Schwarz, LE Kavraki - Protein Structure Prediction, 2008 - Springer
Protein folding refers to the process whereby a protein assumes its intricate three-
dimensional shape. This chapter reviews a class of methods for studying the folding process …

Study of the Villin headpiece folding dynamics by combining coarse‐grained Monte Carlo evolution and all‐atom molecular dynamics

GMS De Mori, G Colombo… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The folding mechanism of the Villin headpiece (HP36) is studied by means of a novel
approach which entails an initial coarse‐grained Monte Carlo (MC) scheme followed by all …

Improvement of the treatment of loop structures in the UNRES force field by inclusion of coupling between backbone-and side-chain-local conformational states

P Krupa, AK Sieradzan, S Rackovsky… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The UNited RESidue (UNRES) coarse-grained model of polypeptide chains, developed in
our laboratory, enables us to carry out millisecond-scale molecular-dynamics simulations of …

Response of villin headpiece-capped gold nanoparticles to ultrafast laser heating

S Hassan, M Schade, CP Shaw, R Lévy… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The integrity of a small model protein, the 36-residue villin headpiece HP36, attached to
gold nanoparticles (AuNP) is examined, and its response to laser excitation of the AuNPs is …

Predicting the effect of a point mutation on a protein fold: the villin and advillin headpieces and their Pro62Ala mutants

S Piana, A Laio, F Marinelli, M Van Troys… - Journal of molecular …, 2008 - Elsevier
Homology modeling of unknown proteins is based on the assumption that highly similar
sequences are likely to share the same fold. However, this does not provide any information …

Phylogeny of protein-folding trajectories reveals a unique pathway to native structure

M Ota, M Ikeguchi, A Kidera - Proceedings of the National …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
To scrutinize how a protein folds at atomic resolution, we performed 200 molecular
dynamics simulations (each of 50 ns) of the miniprotein Trp-cage on the computational grid …

Analysis of core packing in a cooperatively folded miniature protein: the ultrafast folding villin headpiece helical subdomain

S Xiao, Y Bi, B Shan, DP Raleigh - Biochemistry, 2009 - ACS Publications
The helical subdomain of the villin headpiece is the smallest naturally occurring
cooperatively folded protein. Its small size, simple three-helix topology, and very rapid …

Determination of side‐chain‐rotamer and side‐chain and backbone virtual‐bond‐stretching potentials of mean force from AM1 energy surfaces of terminally‐blocked …

U Kozłowska, GG Maisuradze, A Liwo… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Using the harmonic‐approximation approach of the accompanying article and AM1 energy
surfaces of terminally blocked amino‐acid residues, we determined physics‐based side …

NMR characterization of a peptide model provides evidence for significant structure in the unfolded state of the villin headpiece helical subdomain

Y Tang, MJ Goger, DP Raleigh - Biochemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
The villin headpiece subdomain (HP36) is the smallest naturally occurring protein that folds
cooperatively. The protein folds on a microsecond time scale. Its small size and very rapid …