Three-dimensional protein structure prediction: Methods and computational strategies

M Dorn, MB e Silva, LS Buriol, LC Lamb - Computational biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
A long standing problem in structural bioinformatics is to determine the three-dimensional (3-
D) structure of a protein when only a sequence of amino acid residues is given. Many …

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 …

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 …

Multiscale coarse-graining of the protein energy landscape

RD Hills Jr, L Lu, GA Voth - PLoS computational biology, 2010 - journals.plos.org
A variety of coarse-grained (CG) models exists for simulation of proteins. An outstanding
problem is the construction of a CG model with physically accurate conformational …

The coarse-grained OPEP force field for non-amyloid and amyloid proteins

Y Chebaro, S Pasquali… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained protein models with various levels of granularity and degrees of freedom
offer the possibility to explore many phenomena including folding, assembly, and …

PRIMO: a transferable coarse-grained force field for proteins

P Kar, SM Gopal, YM Cheng, A Predeus… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We describe here the PRIMO (protein intermediate model) force field, a physics-based fully
transferable additive coarse-grained potential energy function that is compatible with an all …

UNRES server for physics-based coarse-grained simulations and prediction of protein structure, dynamics and thermodynamics

C Czaplewski, A Karczyńska… - Nucleic Acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
A server implementation of the UNRES package (http://www. unres. pl) for coarse-grained
simulations of protein structures with the physics-based UNRES model, coined a name …

Mechanism of fiber assembly: treatment of Aβ peptide aggregation with a coarse-grained united-residue force field

A Rojas, A Liwo, D Browne, HA Scheraga - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2010 - Elsevier
The growth mechanism of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide fibrils was studied by a physics-based
coarse-grained united-residue model and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To identify …

WeFold: a coopetition for protein structure prediction

GA Khoury, A Liwo, F Khatib, H Zhou… - Proteins: Structure …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The protein structure prediction problem continues to elude scientists. Despite the
introduction of many methods, only modest gains were made over the last decade for certain …

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 …