Structural dynamics of bio-macromolecules by NMR: The slowly relaxing local structure approach

E Meirovitch, YE Shapiro, A Polimeno… - Progress in nuclear …, 2010 - Elsevier
Protein dynamics by NMR has been reviewed extensively in recent years [1–10]. These
surveys show decisively that information on structure should be complemented by …

Towards design of drugs and delivery systems with the Martini coarse-grained model

LR Kjølbye, GP Pereira, A Bartocci, M Pannuzzo… - QRB …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Coarse-grained (CG) modelling with the Martini force field has come of age. By combining a
variety of bead types and sizes with a new mapping approach, the newest version of the …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing conformational changes in proteins

N Haspel, M Moll, ML Baker, W Chiu, LE Kavraki - BMC structural biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Many proteins undergo extensive conformational changes as part of their
functionality. Tracing these changes is important for understanding the way these proteins …

Generating stereochemically acceptable protein pathways

DW Farrell, K Speranskiy… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a new method for rapidly generating stereochemically acceptable pathways in
proteins. The method, called geometric targeting, is publicly available at the webserver …

ClustENM: ENM-based sampling of essential conformational space at full atomic resolution

Z Kurkcuoglu, I Bahar, P Doruker - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Accurate sampling of conformational space and, in particular, the transitions between
functional substates has been a challenge in molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of large …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling protein conformational transitions by a combination of coarse-grained normal mode analysis and robotics-inspired methods

I Al-Bluwi, M Vaisset, T Siméon, J Cortés - BMC structural biology, 2013 - Springer
Background Obtaining atomic-scale information about large-amplitude conformational
transitions in proteins is a challenging problem for both experimental and computational …

[HTML][HTML] Moving beyond static snapshots: Protein dynamics and the Protein Data Bank

MD Miller, GN Phillips - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Proteins are the molecular machines of living systems. Their dynamics are an intrinsic part of
their evolutionary selection in carrying out their biological functions. Although the dynamics …

Sampling large conformational transitions: adenylate kinase as a testing ground

SL Seyler, O Beckstein - Molecular Simulation, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
A fundamental problem in computational biophysics is to deduce the function of a protein
from the structure. Many biological macromolecules such as enzymes, molecular motors or …

Generalization of the elastic network model for the study of large conformational changes in biomolecules

AB Poma, MS Li, PE Theodorakis - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The elastic network (EN) is a prime model that describes the long-time dynamics of
biomolecules. However, the use of harmonic potentials renders this model insufficient for …

[HTML][HTML] Ligand docking to intermediate and close-to-bound conformers generated by an elastic network model based algorithm for highly flexible proteins

Z Kurkcuoglu, P Doruker - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Incorporating receptor flexibility in small ligand-protein docking still poses a challenge for
proteins undergoing large conformational changes. In the absence of bound structures …