A Rigorous Framework for Calculating Protein–Protein Binding Affinities in Membranes

M Blazhynska, JC Gumbart, H Chen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Calculating the binding free energy of integral transmembrane (TM) proteins is crucial for
understanding the mechanisms by which they recognize one another and reversibly …

Self‐Assembly of Photosynthetic Membranes

J Hsin, DE Chandler, J Gumbart, CB Harrison… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial photosynthetic membranes, also known as chromatophores, are tightly packed
with integral membrane proteins that work together to carry out photosynthesis …

Multidimensional umbrella sampling and replica‐exchange molecular dynamics simulations for structure prediction of transmembrane helix dimers

PC Li, N Miyashita, W Im, S Ishido… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Structural information of a transmembrane (TM) helix dimer is useful in understanding
molecular mechanisms of important biological phenomena such as signal transduction …

Applications of the molecular dynamics flexible fitting method

LG Trabuco, E Schreiner, J Gumbart, J Hsin… - Journal of Structural …, 2011 - Elsevier
In recent years, cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has established itself as a key method in
structural biology, permitting the structural characterization of large biomolecular complexes …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental evidence that the membrane-spanning helix of PufX adopts a bent conformation that facilitates dimerisation of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides RC …

EC Ratcliffe, RB Tunnicliffe, IW Ng, PG Adams… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2011 - Elsevier
The PufX polypeptide is an integral component of some photosynthetic bacterial reaction
center-light harvesting 1 (RC–LH1) core complexes. Many aspects of the structure of PufX …

Molecular dynamics simulations of the interactions of kinin peptides with an anionic POPG bilayer

M Manna, C Mukhopadhyay - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
We have performed molecular dynamics simulations of peptide hormone bradykinin (BK)
and its fragment des-Arg9-BK in the presence of an anionic lipid bilayer, with an aim toward …

Energy transfer dynamics in an RC–LH1–PufX tubular photosynthetic membrane

J Hsin, J Strümpfer, M Şener, P Qian… - New Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Light absorption and the subsequent transfer of excitation energy are the first two steps in
the photosynthetic process, carried out by protein-bound pigments, mainly …

Native architecture of the photosynthetic membrane from Rhodobacter veldkampii

LN Liu, JN Sturgis, S Scheuring - Journal of Structural Biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The photosynthetic membrane in purple bacteria contains several pigment–protein
complexes that assure light capture and establishment of the chemiosmotic gradient. The …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-species investigation of the functions of the Rhodobacter PufX polypeptide and the composition of the RC–LH1 core complex

LI Crouch, MR Jones - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2012 - Elsevier
In well-characterised species of the Rhodobacter (Rba.) genus of purple photosynthetic
bacteria it is known that the photochemical reaction centre (RC) is intimately-associated with …

Formation of salt bridges mediates internal dimerization of myosin VI medial tail domain

HJ Kim, J Hsin, Y Liu, PR Selvin, K Schulten - Structure, 2010 - cell.com
The unconventional motor protein, myosin VI, is known to dimerize upon cargo binding to its
C-terminal end. It has been shown that one of its tail domains, called the medial tail domain …