Carbon nanodots from an in silico perspective

F Mocci, L de Villiers Engelbrecht, C Olla… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

Perspective: Advances, challenges, and insight for predictive coarse-grained models

WG Noid - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
By averaging over atomic details, coarse-grained (CG) models provide profound
computational and conceptual advantages for studying soft materials. In particular, bottom …

Bridging molecular docking to molecular dynamics in exploring ligand-protein recognition process: An overview

V Salmaso, S Moro - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Computational techniques have been applied in the drug discovery pipeline since the
1980s. Given the low computational resources of the time, the first molecular modeling …

How to enter a bacterium: bacterial porins and the permeation of antibiotics

JD Prajapati, U Kleinekathöfer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous successes in the field of antibiotic discovery seen in the previous
century, infectious diseases have remained a leading cause of death. More specifically …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

Machine learning coarse-grained potentials of protein thermodynamics

M Majewski, A Pérez, P Thölke, S Doerr… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A generalized understanding of protein dynamics is an unsolved scientific problem, the
solution of which is critical to the interpretation of the structure-function relationships that …

Isolation of a structural mechanism for uncoupling T cell receptor signaling from peptide-MHC binding

LV Sibener, RA Fernandes, EM Kolawole, CB Carbone… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
TCR-signaling strength generally correlates with peptide-MHC binding affinity; however,
exceptions exist. We find high-affinity, yet non-stimulatory, interactions occur with high …

Serine 477 plays a crucial role in the interaction of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with the human receptor ACE2

A Singh, G Steinkellner, K Köchl, K Gruber… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Since the worldwide outbreak of the infectious disease COVID-19, several studies have
been published to understand the structural mechanism of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV …

Characterization of lipid–protein interactions and lipid-mediated modulation of membrane protein function through molecular simulation

MP Muller, T Jiang, C Sun, M Lihan, S Pant… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The cellular membrane constitutes one of the most fundamental compartments of a living
cell, where key processes such as selective transport of material and exchange of …

Graphene microsheets enter cells through spontaneous membrane penetration at edge asperities and corner sites

Y Li, H Yuan, A von Dem Bussche… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding and controlling the interaction of graphene-based materials with cell
membranes is key to the development of graphene-enabled biomedical technologies and to …