Integration or segregation: how do molecules behave at oil/water interfaces?

FG Moore, GL Richmond - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
It has been over 250 years since Benjamin Franklin, fascinated with the wave-stilling effect
of oil on water, performed his famous oil-drop experiments; nevertheless, the behavior of …

OpenMM 4: a reusable, extensible, hardware independent library for high performance molecular simulation

P Eastman, MS Friedrichs, JD Chodera… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
OpenMM is a software toolkit for performing molecular simulations on a range of high
performance computing architectures. It is based on a layered architecture: the lower layers …

Accuracy of quantum chemical methods for large noncovalent complexes

R Sedlak, T Janowski, M Pitonak, J Rezac… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We evaluate the performance of the most widely used wave function, density functional
theory, and semiempirical methods for the description of noncovalent interactions in a set of …

Sigma-profile database for using COSMO-based thermodynamic methods

E Mullins, R Oldland, YA Liu, S Wang… - Industrial & …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Thermodynamic methods based on conductor-like screening models (COSMO) originated
from the use of solvation thermodynamics and computational quantum mechanics. These …

Structural stability from solution to the gas phase: native solution structure of ubiquitin survives analysis in a solvent-free ion mobility–mass spectrometry environment

T Wyttenbach, MT Bowers - The journal of physical chemistry B, 2011 - ACS Publications
The conformations of desolvated ubiquitin ions, lifted into the gas phase by electrospray
ionization (ESI), were characterized by ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) and compared to the …

G-quadruplex DNA assemblies: loop length, cation identity, and multimer formation

N Smargiasso, F Rosu, W Hsia, P Colson… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
G-rich DNA sequences are able to fold into structures called G-quadruplexes. To obtain
general trends in the influence of loop length on the structure and stability of G-quadruplex …

Computational alanine scanning mutagenesis—an improved methodological approach

IS Moreira, PA Fernandes… - Journal of computational …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Alanine scanning mutagenesis of protein–protein interfacial residues can be applied to a
wide variety of protein complexes to understand the structural and energetic characteristics …

Locked nucleic acid (LNA) recognition of RNA: NMR solution structures of LNA: RNA hybrids

M Petersen, K Bondensgaard, J Wengel… - Journal of the …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Locked nucleic acids (LNAs) containing one or more 2 '-O, 4 '-C-methylene-linked bicyclic
ribonucleoside monomers possess a number of the prerequisites of an effective antisense …

Shielded hydrogen bonds as structural determinants of binding kinetics: application in drug design

P Schmidtke, FJ Luque, JB Murray… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Time scale control of molecular interactions is an essential part of biochemical systems, but
very little is known about the structural factors governing the kinetics of molecular …

Molecular-Level Examination of Cu2+ Binding Structure for Amyloid Fibrils of 40-Residue Alzheimer's β by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

S Parthasarathy, F Long, Y Miller, Y Xiao… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Cu2+ binding to Alzheimer's β (Aβ) peptides in amyloid fibrils has attracted broad attention,
as it was shown that Cu ion concentration elevates in Alzheimer's senile plaque and such …