Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Amyloid β protein and Alzheimer's disease: When computer simulations complement experimental studies

J Nasica-Labouze, PH Nguyen, F Sterpone… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) challenges our society with an annual estimated cost of $1.08
trillion in the United States alone by 2050. 1 AD is a progressive irreversible neurological …

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 …

PEP-FOLD: an updated de novo structure prediction server for both linear and disulfide bonded cyclic peptides

P Thevenet, Y Shen, J Maupetit, F Guyon… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In the context of the renewed interest of peptides as therapeutics, it is important to have an
on-line resource for 3D structure prediction of peptides with well-defined structures in …

PEP-FOLD: an online resource for de novo peptide structure prediction

J Maupetit, P Derreumaux, P Tuffery - Nucleic acids research, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Rational peptide design and large-scale prediction of peptide structure from sequence
remain a challenge for chemical biologists. We present PEP-FOLD, an online service, aimed …

A fast method for large‐scale De Novo peptide and miniprotein structure prediction

J Maupetit, P Derreumaux… - Journal of computational …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Although peptides have many biological and biomedical implications, an accurate method
predicting their equilibrium structural ensembles from amino acid sequences and suitable …

The OPEP protein model: from single molecules, amyloid formation, crowding and hydrodynamics to DNA/RNA systems

F Sterpone, S Melchionna, P Tuffery… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The OPEP coarse-grained protein model has been applied to a wide range of applications
since its first release 15 years ago. The model, which combines energetic and structural …

Effects of all-atom force fields on amyloid oligomerization: replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations of the Aβ 16–22 dimer and trimer

PH Nguyen, MS Li, P Derreumaux - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The aim of this work is to investigate the effects of molecular mechanics force fields on
amyloid peptide assembly. To this end, we performed extensive replica exchange molecular …

Further optimization of a hybrid united-atom and coarse-grained force field for folding simulations: improved backbone hydration and interactions between charged …

W Han, K Schulten - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2012 - ACS Publications
PACE, a hybrid force field that couples united-atom protein models with coarse-grained (CG)
solvent (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2010, 6, 3373), has been further optimized, aiming to …

HiRE-RNA: a high resolution coarse-grained energy model for RNA

S Pasquali, P Derreumaux - The journal of physical chemistry B, 2010 - ACS Publications
Although RNAs play many cellular functions, the gap between their sequences and 3D
structures is increasing and our knowledge of RNA thermodynamics and long time scale …