Probing protein folding and conformational transitions with fluorescence

CA Royer - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
Fluorescence arguably constitutes the most widely used experimental approach in the field
of protein folding. Hence, any review of the use of fluorescence to probe protein stability and …

Multidimensional femtosecond correlation spectroscopies of electronic and vibrational excitations

S Mukamel - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2000 - annualreviews.org
Femtosecond visible and infrared analogues of multiple-pulse nuclear magnetic resonance
techniques provide novel snapshot probes into the structure and electronic and vibrational …

Peptide folding: when simulation meets experiment

X Daura, K Gademann, B Jaun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate reproduction of the mechanism of peptide folding in solution and conformational
preferences as a function of amino acid sequence is possible with atomic level dynamics …

Optimized molecular dynamics force fields applied to the helix− coil transition of polypeptides

RB Best, G Hummer - The journal of physical chemistry B, 2009 - ACS Publications
Obtaining the correct balance of secondary structure propensities is a central priority in
protein force-field development. Given that current force fields differ significantly in their α …

Pathways to a protein folding intermediate observed in a 1-microsecond simulation in aqueous solution

Y Duan, PA Kollman - Science, 1998 - science.org
An implementation of classical molecular dynamics on parallel computers of increased
efficiency has enabled a simulation of protein folding with explicit representation of water for …

Automatic discovery of metastable states for the construction of Markov models of macromolecular conformational dynamics

JD Chodera, N Singhal, VS Pande, KA Dill… - The Journal of …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
To meet the challenge of modeling the conformational dynamics of biological
macromolecules over long time scales, much recent effort has been devoted to constructing …

Folding dynamics and mechanism of β-hairpin formation

V Munoz, PA Thompson, J Hofrichter, WA Eaton - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Protein chains coil into α-helices and β-sheet structures. Knowing the timescales and
mechanism of formation of these basic structural elements is essential for understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the helix-coil transition via all-atom equilibrium ensemble simulations

EJ Sorin, VS Pande - Biophysical journal, 2005 - cell.com
The ensemble folding of two 21-residue α-helical peptides has been studied using all-atom
simulations under several variants of the AMBER potential in explicit solvent using a global …

Coarse master equations for peptide folding dynamics

NV Buchete, G Hummer - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008 - ACS Publications
We construct coarse master equations for peptide folding dynamics from atomistic molecular
dynamics simulations. A maximum-likelihood propagator-based method allows us to extract …

Heterogeneity in protein folding and unfolding reactions

S Bhatia, JB Udgaonkar - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins have dynamic structures that undergo chain motions on time scales spanning from
picoseconds to seconds. Resolving the resultant conformational heterogeneity is essential …