Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics simulation in pharmaceutical research 1: drug delivery

A Bunker, T Róg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we outline the growing role that molecular dynamics simulation is able to play
as a design tool in drug delivery. We cover both the pharmaceutical and computational …

The impact of lipid polyunsaturation on the physical and mechanical properties of lipid membranes

R Baccouch, Y Shi, E Vernay… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2023 - Elsevier
The lipid composition of cellular membranes and the balance between the different lipid
components can be impacted by aging, certain pathologies, specific diets and other factors …

[HTML][HTML] TRAVIS—A free analyzer for trajectories from molecular simulation

M Brehm, M Thomas, S Gehrke… - The Journal of chemical …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
TRAVIS (“Trajectory Analyzer and Visualizer”) is a program package for post-processing and
analyzing trajectories from molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations, mostly …

CHARMM‐GUI Membrane Builder toward realistic biological membrane simulations

EL Wu, X Cheng, S Jo, H Rui, KC Song… - 2014 - Wiley Online Library
CHARMM‐GUI Membrane Builder, http://www. charmm‐gui. org/input/membrane, is a web‐
based user interface designed to interactively build all‐atom protein/membrane or …

An extension and further validation of an all-atomistic force field for biological membranes

JPM Jambeck, AP Lyubartsev - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are versatile in composition and host intriguing molecular processes.
In order to be able to study these systems, an accurate model Hamiltonian or force field (FF) …

MEMBPLUGIN: studying membrane complexity in VMD

R Guixà-González, I Rodriguez-Espigares… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Computer simulations are giving way to more complex and accurate studies of biological
membranes by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The analysis of MD trajectories …

Another piece of the membrane puzzle: extending slipids further

JPM Jambeck, AP Lyubartsev - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
To be able to model complex biological membranes in a more realistic manner, the force
field Slipids (Stockholm lipids) has been extended to include parameters for sphingomyelin …

Using molecular simulation to understand the skin barrier

P Shamaprasad, CO Frame, TC Moore, A Yang… - Progress in lipid …, 2022 - Elsevier
Skin's effectiveness as a barrier to permeation of water and other chemicals rests almost
entirely in the outermost layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum (SC), which consists of …

Structural basis for maintenance of bacterial outer membrane lipid asymmetry

J Abellón-Ruiz, SS Kaptan, A Baslé, B Claudi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane (OM) is a unique bilayer that forms an efficient
permeation barrier to protect the cell from noxious compounds,. The defining characteristic …

Connexin-46/50 in a dynamic lipid environment resolved by CryoEM at 1.9 Å

JA Flores, BG Haddad, KA Dolan, JB Myers… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Gap junctions establish direct pathways for cells to transfer metabolic and electrical
messages. The local lipid environment is known to affect the structure, stability and …