CLC chloride channels and transporters: structure, function, physiology, and disease

TJ Jentsch, M Pusch - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
CLC anion transporters are found in all phyla and form a gene family of eight members in
mammals. Two CLC proteins, each of which completely contains an ion translocation …

[HTML][HTML] Conformational landscapes of membrane proteins delineated by enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations

TJ Harpole, L Delemotte - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2018 - Elsevier
The expansion of computational power, better parameterization of force fields, and the
development of novel algorithms to enhance the sampling of the free energy landscapes of …

A quantitative paradigm for water-assisted proton transport through proteins and other confined spaces

C Li, GA Voth - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Water-assisted proton transport through confined spaces influences many phenomena in
biomolecular and nanomaterial systems. In such cases, the water molecules that fluctuate in …

Ion and lipid orchestration of secondary active transport

D Drew, O Boudker - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Transporting small molecules across cell membranes is an essential process in cell
physiology. Many structurally diverse, secondary active transporters harness …

Accurate and transferable reactive molecular dynamics models from constrained density functional theory

C Li, GA Voth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chemical reactions constitute the central feature of many liquid, material, and biomolecular
processes. Conventional molecular dynamics (MD) is inadequate for simulating chemical …

Multiscale Kinetic Modeling Reveals an Ensemble of Cl/H+ Exchange Pathways in ClC-ec1 Antiporter

HB Mayes, S Lee, AD White, GA Voth… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Despite several years of research, the ion exchange mechanisms in chloride/proton
antiporters and many other coupled transporters are not yet understood at the molecular …

Understanding and tracking the excess proton in ab initio simulations; insights from IR spectra

C Li, JMJ Swanson - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proton transport in aqueous media is ubiquitously important in chemical and biological
processes. Although ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations have made great …

Molecular dynamics simulation of complex reactivity with the rapid approach for proton transport and other reactions (RAPTOR) software package

S Kaiser, Z Yue, Y Peng, TD Nguyen… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Simulating chemically reactive phenomena such as proton transport on nanosecond to
microsecond and beyond time scales is a challenging task. Ab initio methods are unable to …

Proton-induced conformational and hydration dynamics in the influenza A M2 channel

LC Watkins, R Liang, JMJ Swanson… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The influenza A M2 protein is an acid-activated proton channel responsible for acidification
of the inside of the virus, a critical step in the viral life cycle. This channel has four central …

Influenza A M2 inhibitor binding understood through mechanisms of excess proton stabilization and channel dynamics

LC Watkins, WF DeGrado, GA Voth - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Prevalent resistance to inhibitors that target the influenza A M2 proton channel has
necessitated a continued drug design effort, supported by a sustained study of the …