Multifaceted computational modeling in glycoscience

S Perez, O Makshakova - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Glycoscience assembles all the scientific disciplines involved in studying various molecules
and macromolecules containing carbohydrates and complex glycans. Such an ensemble …

Recent advances in coarse-grained models for biomolecules and their applications

N Singh, W Li - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a powerful tool to study biological
systems at varied length and timescales. The conventional all-atom molecular dynamics …

Combining the MARTINI and structure-based coarse-grained approaches for the molecular dynamics studies of conformational transitions in proteins

AB Poma, M Cieplak… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The application of coarse-grained (CG) models in biology is essential to access large length
and time scales required for the description of many biological processes. The ELNEDIN …

Optimizing Gō-MARTINI coarse-grained model for F-BAR protein on lipid membrane

MI Mahmood, AB Poma, K Okazaki - Frontiers in molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations allow us to access much larger
length and time scales than atomistic MD simulations, providing an attractive alternative to …

Extending the Martini Coarse-Grained Force Field to N-Glycans

AT Shivgan, JK Marzinek, RG Huber… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Glycans play a vital role in a large number of cellular processes. Their complex and flexible
nature hampers structure–function studies using experimental techniques. Molecular …

A novel supra coarse-grained model for cellulose

AY Mehandzhiyski, N Rolland, M Garg, J Wohlert… - Cellulose, 2020 - Springer
Cellulose being the most widely available biopolymer on Earth is attracting significant
interest from the industry and research communities. While molecular simulations can be …

Contact-based molecular dynamics of structured and disordered proteins in a coarse-grained model: Fixed contacts, switchable contacts and those described by …

Ł Mioduszewski, J Bednarz, M Chwastyk… - Computer Physics …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a coarse-grained C α-based protein model that can be used to simulate
structured, intrinsically disordered and partially disordered proteins. We use a Go-like …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical and thermodynamic properties of Aβ42, Aβ40, and α-synuclein fibrils: a coarse-grained method to complement experimental studies

AB Poma, HV Guzman, MS Li… - Beilstein Journal of …, 2019 - beilstein-journals.org
We perform molecular dynamics simulation on several relevant biological fibrils associated
with neurodegenerative diseases such as Aβ 40, Aβ 42, and α-synuclein systems to obtain a …

Differentiating between inactive and active states of rhodopsin by atomic force microscopy in native membranes

S Senapati, AB Poma, M Cieplak, S Filipek… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins, including G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), present a challenge in
studying their structural properties under physiological conditions. Moreover, to better …

Nanomechanical stability of Aβ tetramers and fibril-like structures: molecular dynamics simulations

AB Poma, TTM Thu, LTM Tri… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder and one of the main causes of
dementia. The disease is associated with amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide aggregation forming …