Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications

J Wang, PR Arantes, A Bhattarai… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a robust computational method for
simultaneous unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculations of …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in molecular dynamics simulations and enhanced sampling methods for the study of protein systems

R Lazim, D Suh, S Choi - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a rigorous theoretical tool that when used efficiently
could provide reliable answers to questions pertaining to the structure-function relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Scalable molecular dynamics on CPU and GPU architectures with NAMD

JC Phillips, DJ Hardy, JDC Maia, JE Stone… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
NAMD is a molecular dynamics program designed for high-performance simulations of very
large biological objects on CPU-and GPU-based architectures. NAMD offers scalable …

Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods

P Pracht, F Bohle, S Grimme - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We propose and discuss an efficient scheme for the in silico sampling for parts of the
molecular chemical space by semiempirical tight-binding methods combined with a meta …

Decoding the identification mechanism of an SAM-III Riboswitch on ligands through multiple independent Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

J Chen, Q Zeng, W Wang, H Sun… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-responsive riboswitches play a central role in the regulation
of bacterial gene expression at the level of transcription attenuation or translation inhibition …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculation

Y Miao, VA Feher, JA McCammon - Journal of chemical theory …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) approach for simultaneous enhanced
sampling and free energy calculation of biomolecules is presented. By constructing a boost …

How the conformational movement of the substrate drives the regioselective C–N bond formation in P450 TleB: insights from molecular dynamics simulations and …

Z Wang, W Diao, P Wu, J Li, Y Fu, Z Guo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
P450 TleB catalyzes the oxidative cyclization of the dipeptide N-methylvalyl-tryptophanol
into indolactam V through selective intramolecular C–H bond amination at the indole C4 …

Mutation-induced impacts on the switch transformations of the GDP-and GTP-bound K-ras: insights from multiple replica Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics …

J Chen, S Zhang, W Wang, L Pang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Mutations yield significant effect on the structural flexibility of two switch domains, SW1 and
SW2, in K-Ras, which is considered as an important target of anticancer drug design. To …

Ligand Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (LiGaMD): Characterization of ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Y Miao, A Bhattarai, J Wang - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calculations of ligand binding free energies and kinetic rates are important for drug design.
However, such tasks have proven challenging in computational chemistry and biophysics …

Peptide Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (Pep-GaMD): Enhanced sampling and free energy and kinetics calculations of peptide binding

J Wang, Y Miao - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Peptides mediate up to 40% of known protein–protein interactions in higher eukaryotes and
play an important role in cellular signaling. However, it is challenging to simulate both …