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 …

Self-Assembly of Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Peptides from Solution to Near In Vivo Conditions

PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding the atomistic resolution changes during the self-assembly of amyloid
peptides or proteins is important to develop compounds or conditions to alter the …

Implementation of residue-level coarse-grained models in GENESIS for large-scale molecular dynamics simulations

C Tan, J Jung, C Kobayashi, DUL Torre… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Residue-level coarse-grained (CG) models have become one of the most popular tools in
biomolecular simulations in the trade-off between modeling accuracy and computational …

Simulations of morphology control of self‐assembled amphiphilic surfactants

Q Zhu, DR Tree - Journal of Polymer Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One of the grand challenges of amphiphilic self‐assembly is the design of ordered structures
whose morphology or shape can be explicitly and dynamically controlled by adjusting the …

Synergistic entry of individual nanoparticles into mammalian cells driven by free energy decline and regulated by their sizes

Y Wei, H Chen, YX Li, K He, K Yang, HB Pang - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell entry is one of the common prerequisites for nanomaterial applications. Despite
extensive studies on a homogeneous group of nanoparticles (NPs), fewer studies have …

A brief history of visualizing membrane systems in molecular dynamics simulations

RA Corey, M Baaden, M Chavent - Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding lipid dynamics and function, from the level of single, isolated molecules to
large assemblies, is more than ever an intensive area of research. The interactions of lipids …

Optimized OPEP force field for simulation of crowded protein solutions

S Timr, S Melchionna, P Derreumaux… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Macromolecular crowding has profound effects on the mobility of proteins, with strong
implications on the rates of intracellular processes. To describe the dynamics of crowded …

Effect of cholesterol molecules on Aβ1-42 wild-type and mutants trimers

TH Nguyen, PH Nguyen, ST Ngo, P Derreumaux - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alzheimer's disease displays aggregates of the amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide in the brain, and
there is increasing evidence that cholesterol may contribute to the pathogenesis of the …

Exposure of von Willebrand factor cleavage site in A1A2A3-fragment under extreme hydrodynamic shear

O Languin-Cattoën, E Laborie, DO Yurkova… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Von Willebrand Factor (vWf) is a giant multimeric extracellular blood plasma involved in
hemostasis. In this work we present multi-scale simulations of its three-domains fragment …

Stabilizing or destabilizing: simulations of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 under crowding reveal existence of a crossover temperature

S Timr, F Sterpone - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The effect of macromolecular crowding on the stability of proteins can change with
temperature. This dependence might reveal a delicate balance between two factors: the …