Bottom-up coarse-graining: Principles and perspectives

J Jin, AJ Pak, AEP Durumeric, TD Loose… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Large-scale computational molecular models provide scientists a means to investigate the
effect of microscopic details on emergent mesoscopic behavior. Elucidating the relationship …

Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope

SJ Marrink, L Monticelli, MN Melo… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field for molecular dynamics simulations, has
been around for nearly two decades. Originally developed for lipid‐based systems by the …

Improving Martini 3 for disordered and multidomain proteins

FE Thomasen, F Pesce, MA Roesgaard… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are a useful tool to determine
conformational ensembles of proteins. Here, we show that the coarse-grained force field …

Rescaling protein-protein interactions improves Martini 3 for flexible proteins in solution

FE Thomasen, T Skaalum, A Kumar… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Multidomain proteins with flexible linkers and disordered regions play important roles in
many cellular processes, but characterizing their conformational ensembles is difficult. We …

Scaling protein–water interactions in the martini 3 coarse-grained force field to simulate transmembrane helix dimers in different lipid environments

A Claveras Cabezudo, C Athanasiou… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Martini 3, the latest version of the widely used Martini force field for coarse-grained
molecular dynamics simulations, is a promising tool to investigate proteins in phospholipid …

Short peptide self-assembly in the martini coarse-grain force field family

A van Teijlingen, MC Smith, T Tuttle - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Pivotal to the success of any computational experiment is the ability to make
reliable predictions about the system under study and the time required to yield these …

Improved parameterization of phosphatidylinositide lipid headgroups for the martini 3 coarse-grain force field

L Borges-Araújo, PCT Souza… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Phosphoinositides are a family of membrane phospholipids that play crucial roles in
membrane regulatory events. As such, these lipids are often a key part of molecular …

Machine Learning Derived Collective Variables for the Study of Protein Homodimerization in Membrane

A Majumder, JE Straub - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The accurate calculation of equilibrium constants for protein–protein association is of
fundamental importance to quantitative biology and remains an outstanding challenge for …

The role of structural heterogeneity in the homodimerization of transmembrane proteins

A Majumder, JE Straub - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The equilibrium association of transmembrane proteins plays a fundamental role in
membrane protein function and cellular signaling. While the study of the equilibrium binding …

Transmembrane dimers of type 1 receptors sample alternate configurations: MD simulations using coarse grain Martini 3 versus AlphaFold2 Multimer

AR Sahoo, PCT Souza, Z Meng, M Buck - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
Structures and dynamics of transmembrane (TM) receptor regions are key to understanding
their signaling mechanism across membranes. Here we examine configurations of TM …