Bridging the gap between folding simulations and experiments: The case of the villin headpiece

G Saladino, M Marenchino… - Journal of Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The increasing accuracy of molecular dynamics force fields parameters and the increasing
resolution of experimental results allow one to carefully compare and complement in silico …

A critical assessment of putative gatekeeper interactions in the villin headpiece helical subdomain

S Xiao, DP Raleigh - Journal of molecular biology, 2010 - Elsevier
The helical subdomain of the villin headpiece (HP36) is one of the smallest naturally
occurring proteins that folds cooperatively. Its small size, rapid folding, and simple three …

Backbone and side-chain ordering in a small protein

Y Wei, W Nadler, UHE Hansmann - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the relation between backbone and side-chain ordering in a small protein.
For this purpose, we have performed multicanonical simulations of the villin headpiece …

From helix–coil transitions to protein folding

HA Scheraga - Biopolymers: Original Research on …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
An evolution of procedures to simulate protein structure and folding pathways is described.
From an initial focus on the helix–coil transition and on hydrogen‐bonding and hydrophobic …

[HTML][HTML] Monte Carlo, harmonic approximation, and coarse-graining approaches for enhanced sampling of biomolecular structure

T Schlick - F1000 Biology Reports, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The rugged energy landscape of biomolecules and associated large-scale conformational
changes have triggered the development of many innovative enhanced sampling methods …

A decoy set for the thermostable subdomain from chicken villin headpiece, comparison of different free energy estimators

F Fogolari, SCE Tosatto, G Colombo - BMC bioinformatics, 2005 - Springer
Background Estimators of free energies are routinely used to judge the quality of protein
structural models. As these estimators still present inaccuracies, they are frequently …

The protein folding network indicates that the ultrafast folding mutant of villin headpiece subdomain has a deeper folding funnel

H Lei, C Chen, Y Xiao, Y Duan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Protein folding is a dynamic process with continuous transitions among different
conformations. In this work, the dynamics in the protein folding network of villin headpiece …

Electronic polarization stabilizes tertiary structure prediction of HP-36

LL Duan, T Zhu, QG Zhang, B Tang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2014 - Springer
Molecular dynamic (MD) simulations with both implicit and explicit solvent models have
been carried out to study the folding dynamics of HP-36 protein. Starting from the extended …

ARTIST: an activated method in internal coordinate space for sampling protein energy landscapes

MR Yun, R Lavery, N Mousseau… - Proteins: Structure …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first applications of an activated method in internal coordinate space for
sampling all‐atom protein conformations, the activation–relaxation technique for internal …

In silico and biological analysis of anti-androgen activity of the brominated flame retardants ATE, BATE and DPTE in zebrafish

A Pradhan, S Asnake, JB Kharlyngdoh, C Modig… - Chemico-Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The brominated flame retardants (BFRs) 1, 2-dibromo-4-(1, 2-dibromoethyl) cyclohexane
(TBECH or DBE-DCBH) and allyl 2, 4, 6-tribromophenyl ether (ATE or TBP-AE) are …