Insights from coarse-grained Gō models for protein folding and dynamics

RD Hills Jr, CL Brooks III - International journal of molecular sciences, 2009 - mdpi.com
Exploring the landscape of large scale conformational changes such as protein folding at
atomistic detail poses a considerable computational challenge. Coarse-grained …

Accelerate sampling in atomistic energy landscapes using topology-based coarse-grained models

W Zhang, J Chen - Biophysical Journal, 2014 - cell.com
Successful simulations of biomolecules require sufficient sampling of the relevant
conformational space. This has remained a major challenge due to large conformational …

The C‐terminal domain of transcription factor RfaH: Folding, fold switching and energy landscape

B Seifi, S Wallin - Biopolymers, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We simulate the folding and fold switching of the C‐terminal domain (CTD) of the
transcription factor RfaH using an all‐atom physics‐based model augmented with a dual …

Multifunnel landscape of the fold-switching protein RfaH-CTD

NA Bernhardt, UHE Hansmann - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Proteins such as the transcription factor RfaH can change biological function by switching
between distinct three-dimensional folds. RfaH regulates transcription if the C-terminal …

Simulating protein fold switching by replica exchange with tunneling

NA Bernhardt, W Xi, W Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Recent experiments suggest that an amino acid sequence encodes not only the native fold
of a protein but also other forms that are essential for its function or are important during …

Fibril–barrel transitions in cylindrin amyloids

H Zhang, W Xi, UHE Hansmann… - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We introduce Replica-Exchange-with-Tunneling (RET) simulations as a tool for studies of
the conversion between polymorphic amyloids. For the 11-residue amyloid-forming cylindrin …

Folding simulations of the A and B domains of protein G

M Kouza, UHE Hansmann - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2012 - ACS Publications
We study wild type and mutants of the A and B domain of protein G using all-atom Go-
models. Our data substantiate the usefulness of such simulation for probing the folding …

A hybrid all-atom structure-based model for protein folding and large scale conformational transitions

L Sutto, I Mereu, FL Gervasio - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Structure-based models are successful at conjugating the essence of the energy landscape
theory of protein folding with an easy and efficient implementation. Recently, their realm …

Soliton driven relaxation dynamics and protein collapse in the villin headpiece

A Krokhotin, M Lundgren, AJ Niemi… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Protein collapse from a random chain to the native state involves a dynamical phase
transition. During the process, new scales and collective variables become excited while old …

Functionally relevant specific packing can determine protein folding routes

S Yadahalli, S Gosavi - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Functional residues can modulate the folding mechanisms of proteins. In some proteins,
mutations to such residues can radically change the primary folding route. Is it possible then …