The power of coarse graining in biomolecular simulations

HI Ingólfsson, CA Lopez, JJ Uusitalo… - Wiley …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Computational modeling of biological systems is challenging because of the multitude of
spatial and temporal scales involved. Replacing atomistic detail with lower resolution …

Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

A unified coarse-grained model of biological macromolecules based on mean-field multipole–multipole interactions

A Liwo, M Baranowski, C Czaplewski, E Gołaś… - Journal of molecular …, 2014 - Springer
A unified coarse-grained model of three major classes of biological molecules—proteins,
nucleic acids, and polysaccharides—has been developed. It is based on the observations …

Expanding the proteome: disordered and alternatively folded proteins

HJ Dyson - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2011 - cambridge.org
Proteins provide much of the scaffolding for life, as well as undertaking a variety of essential
catalytic reactions. These characteristic functions have led us to presuppose that proteins …

Membrane sculpting by F-BAR domains studied by molecular dynamics simulations

H Yu, K Schulten - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Interplay between cellular membranes and their peripheral proteins drives many processes
in eukaryotic cells. Proteins of the Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (BAR) domain family, in particular …

The regulation of AMPA receptor endocytosis by dynamic protein-protein interactions

JG Hanley - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The precise regulation of AMPA receptor (AMPAR) trafficking in neurons is crucial for
excitatory neurotransmission, synaptic plasticity and the consequent formation and …

Investigating the allosteric response of the PICK1 PDZ domain to different ligands with all‐atom simulations

AO Stevens, IC Kazan, B Ozkan, Y He - Protein Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The PDZ family is comprised of small modular domains that play critical roles in the allosteric
modulation of many cellular signaling processes by binding to the C‐terminal tail of different …

Coarse-grained force field: general folding theory

A Liwo, Y He, HA Scheraga - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
We review the coarse-grained UNited RESidue (UNRES) force field for the simulations of
protein structure and dynamics, which is being developed in our laboratory over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-GPU UNRES for scalable coarse-grained simulations of very large protein systems

KM Ocetkiewicz, C Czaplewski, H Krawczyk… - Computer Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Graphical Processor Units (GPUs) are nowadays widely used in all-atom molecular
simulations because of the advantage of efficient partitioning of atom pairs between the …

Insight into the initial stages of the folding process in onconase revealed by UNRES

E Hendrix, S Motta, RF Gahl, Y He - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The unfolded state of proteins presents many challenges to elucidate the structural basis for
biological function. This state is characterized by a large degree of structural heterogeneity …