Machine learning generation of dynamic protein conformational ensembles

LE Zheng, S Barethiya, E Nordquist, J Chen - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Machine learning has achieved remarkable success across a broad range of scientific and
engineering disciplines, particularly its use for predicting native protein structures from …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: ensembles at the limits of Anfinsen's dogma

P Kulkarni, VBP Leite, S Roy, S Bhattacharyya… - Biophysics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins that lack rigid 3D structure. Hence, they
are often misconceived to present a challenge to Anfinsen's dogma. However, IDPs exist as …

Re-balancing replica exchange with solute tempering for sampling dynamic protein conformations

Y Zhang, X Liu, J Chen - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Replica exchange with solute tempering (REST) is a highly effective variant of replica
exchange for enhanced sampling in explicit solvent simulations of biomolecules. By scaling …

Advanced sampling methods for multiscale simulation of disordered proteins and dynamic interactions

X Gong, Y Zhang, J Chen - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are highly prevalent and play important roles in
biology and human diseases. It is now also recognized that many IDPs remain dynamic …

Mutual induced-fit mechanism drives binding between intrinsically disordered Bim and cryptic binding site of Bcl-xL

GJ Bekker, M Araki, K Oshima, Y Okuno… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The intrinsically disordered region (IDR) of Bim binds to the flexible cryptic site of Bcl-xL, a
pro-survival protein involved in cancer progression that plays an important role in initiating …

Structural details of BH3 motifs and BH3-mediated interactions: an updated perspective

V Sora, E Papaleo - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Apoptosis is a mechanism of programmed cell death crucial in organism development,
maintenance of tissue homeostasis, and several pathogenic processes. The B cell …

Investigations of the molecular interactions between nisoldipine and human serum albumin in vitro using multi-spectroscopy, electrochemistry and docking studies

D Zhang, X Zhang, YC Liu, SC Huang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Nisoldipine represents a compound with diverse pharmacological activities. The interaction
between nisoldipine and human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated using various …

Cryptic-site binding mechanism of medium-sized Bcl-xL inhibiting compounds elucidated by McMD-based dynamic docking simulations

GJ Bekker, I Fukuda, J Higo, Y Fukunishi, N Kamiya - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We have performed multicanonical molecular dynamics (McMD) based dynamic docking
simulations to study and compare the binding mechanism between two medium-sized …

The interactions of CdTe quantum dots with serum albumin and subsequent cytotoxicity: the influence of homologous ligands

R Yan, BQ Yu, MM Yin, ZQ Zhou, X Xiang… - Toxicology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
With spreading applications of fluorescent quantum dots (QDs) in biomedical fields in recent
years, there is increasing concern over their toxicity. Among various factors, surface ligands …

Exploring the binding of carbon dots to calf thymus DNA: from green synthesis to fluorescent molecular probe

CY Liang, W Xia, CZ Yang, YC Liu, AM Bai, YJ Hu - Carbon, 2018 - Elsevier
Carbon dots (CDs) have been widely applied in bioimaging, drug delivery and
nanomedicine. In this study, the interaction binding mechanism of CDs with calf thymus DNA …