The theory of ultra-coarse-graining. 1. General principles

JF Dama, AV Sinitskiy, M McCullagh… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained (CG) models provide a computationally efficient means to study
biomolecular and other soft matter processes involving large numbers of atoms correlated …

Mapping energy transport networks in proteins

DM Leitner, T Yamato - Reviews in Computational Chemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews the approaches for locating energy transport networks in proteins
computationally. It presents the background to energy and thermal transport in both …

Energy transport across interfaces in biomolecular systems

DM Leitner, HD Pandey, KM Reid - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Energy transport during chemical reactions or following photoexcitation in systems of
biological molecules is mediated by numerous interfaces that separate chemical groups and …

Distance-dependent hydrophobic–hydrophobic contacts in protein folding simulations

A Onofrio, G Parisi, G Punzi, S Todisco… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Successful prediction of protein folding from an amino acid sequence is a challenge in
computational biology. In order to reveal the geometric constraints that drive protein folding …

Scaling of rates of vibrational energy transfer in proteins with equilibrium dynamics and entropy

KM Reid, T Yamato, DM Leitner - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Theoretical arguments and results of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of myoglobin at
300 K are presented to relate rates of vibrational energy transfer across nonbonded contacts …

Communication maps: exploring energy transport through proteins and water

JK Agbo, R Gnanasekaran… - Israel Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Frequency‐resolved communication maps provide a coarse‐grained, global mapping of
energy transport channels in a protein as a function of frequency of modes that carry energy …

Ras isoforms: signaling specificities in CD40 pathway

A Nair, S Chakraborty, LA Banerji, A Srivastava… - Cell Communication and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Ras are small cellular GTPases which regulate diverse cellular processes. It
has three isoforms: H-Ras, K-Ras, and N-Ras. Owing to the N-terminus (1–165 residues) …

NMR-detected Brownian dynamics of αB-crystallin over a wide range of concentrations

M Roos, S Link, J Balbach, A Krushelnitsky… - Biophysical …, 2015 - cell.com
Abstract Knowledge about the global translational and rotational motion of proteins under
crowded conditions is highly relevant for understanding the function of proteins in vivo. This …

Fractal and complex network analyses of protein molecular dynamics

YW Zhou, JL Liu, ZG Yu, ZQ Zhao, V Anh - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2014 - Elsevier
Based on protein molecular dynamics, we investigate the fractal properties of energy,
pressure and volume time series using the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF …

Water-mediated energy dynamics in a homodimeric hemoglobin

DM Leitner - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
We examine energy dynamics in the unliganded and liganded states of the homodimeric
hemoglobin from Scapharca inaequivalvis (HbI), which exhibits cooperativity mediated by …