Discrete molecular dynamics: an efficient and versatile simulation method for fine protein characterization

D Shirvanyants, F Ding, D Tsao… - The journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Until now it has been impractical to observe protein folding in silico for proteins larger than
50 residues. Limitations of both force field accuracy and computational efficiency make the …

Folding simulations for proteins with diverse topologies are accessible in days with a physics-based force field and implicit solvent

H Nguyen, J Maier, H Huang, V Perrone… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The millisecond time scale needed for molecular dynamics simulations to approach the
quantitative study of protein folding is not yet routine. One approach to extend the simulation …

Accelerated molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding

Y Miao, F Feixas, C Eun… - Journal of computational …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Folding of four fast‐folding proteins, including chignolin, Trp‐cage, villin headpiece and WW
domain, was simulated via accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD). In comparison with …

Atomistic molecular simulations of protein folding

RB Best - Current opinion in structural biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Theory and experiment have provided answers to many of the fundamental questions of
protein folding; a remaining challenge is an accurate, high-resolution picture of folding …

[HTML][HTML] Ten-microsecond molecular dynamics simulation of a fast-folding WW domain

PL Freddolino, F Liu, M Gruebele, K Schulten - Biophysical journal, 2008 - cell.com
All-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein folding allow analysis of the folding
process at an unprecedented level of detail. Unfortunately, such simulations have not yet …

[HTML][HTML] How robust are protein folding simulations with respect to force field parameterization?

S Piana, K Lindorff-Larsen, DE Shaw - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
Molecular dynamics simulations hold the promise of providing an atomic-level description of
protein folding that cannot easily be obtained from experiments. Here, we examine the …

[HTML][HTML] Sampling of the conformational landscape of small proteins with Monte Carlo methods

N Heilmann, M Wolf, M Kozlowska, E Sedghamiz… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Computer simulation provides an increasingly realistic picture of large-scale conformational
change of proteins, but investigations remain fundamentally constrained by the femtosecond …

[HTML][HTML] Ab initio folding of proteins with all-atom discrete molecular dynamics

F Ding, D Tsao, H Nie, NV Dokholyan - Structure, 2008 - cell.com
Discrete molecular dynamics (DMD) is a rapid sampling method used in protein folding and
aggregation studies. Until now, DMD was used to perform simulations of simplified protein …

Computational protein folding: From lattice to all-atom

Y Duan, PA Kollman - IBM Systems Journal, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the mechanism of protein folding is often referred to as the second half of
genetics. Computational approaches have been instrumental in the efforts. Simplified …

To milliseconds and beyond: challenges in the simulation of protein folding

TJ Lane, D Shukla, KA Beauchamp… - Current opinion in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Quantitatively accurate all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein folding
have long been considered a holy grail of computational biology. Due to the large system …