Discrete molecular dynamics: an efficient and versatile simulation method for fine protein characterization

D Shirvanyants, F Ding, D Tsao… - The journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Until now it has been impractical to observe protein folding in silico for proteins larger than
50 residues. Limitations of both force field accuracy and computational efficiency make the …

Folding free-energy landscape of villin headpiece subdomain from molecular dynamics simulations

H Lei, C Wu, H Liu, Y Duan - Proceedings of the National …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
High-accuracy ab initio folding has remained an elusive objective despite decades of effort.
To explore the folding landscape of villin headpiece subdomain HP35, we conducted two …

High-resolution x-ray crystal structures of the villin headpiece subdomain, an ultrafast folding protein

TK Chiu, J Kubelka, R Herbst-Irmer… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The 35-residue subdomain of the villin headpiece (HP35) is a small ultrafast folding protein
that is being intensely studied by experiments, theory, and simulations. We have solved the …

Modification and optimization of the united-residue (UNRES) potential energy function for canonical simulations. I. Temperature dependence of the effective energy …

A Liwo, M Khalili, C Czaplewski… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We report the modification and parametrization of the united-residue (UNRES) force field for
energy-based protein structure prediction and protein folding simulations. We tested the …

A new force field (ECEPP-05) for peptides, proteins, and organic molecules

YA Arnautova, A Jagielska… - The Journal of Physical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Parametrization and testing of a new all-atom force field for organic molecules and peptides
with fixed bond lengths and bond angles are described. The van der Waals parameters for …

Residue specific resolution of protein folding dynamics using isotope-edited infrared temperature jump spectroscopy

SH Brewer, B Song, DP Raleigh, RB Dyer - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
A major difficulty in experimental studies of protein folding is the lack of nonperturbing,
residue specific probes of folding. Here, we demonstrate the ability to resolve protein folding …

Development of a new physics‐based internal coordinate mechanics force field and its application to protein loop modeling

YA Arnautova, RA Abagyan… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We report the development of internal coordinate mechanics force field (ICMFF), new force
field parameterized using a combination of experimental data for crystals of small molecules …

Modelling proteins: Conformational sampling and reconstruction of folding kinetics

K Klenin, B Strodel, DJ Wales, W Wenzel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2011 - Elsevier
In the last decades biomolecular simulation has made tremendous inroads to help elucidate
biomolecular processes in-silico. Despite enormous advances in molecular dynamics …

Effect of modulating unfolded state structure on the folding kinetics of the villin headpiece subdomain

SH Brewer, DM Vu, Y Tang, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Equilibrium Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and temperature-jump (T-jump) IR
spectroscopic techniques were used to study the thermodynamics and kinetics of the …

2D-IR experiments and simulations of the coupling between amide-I and ionizable side chains in proteins: application to the Villin headpiece

S Bagchi, C Falvo, S Mukamel… - The journal of physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The carboxylate side chains of Asp and Glu have significant coupling with the amide states
of the backbone of the Villin headpiece. In two-dimensional spectroscopy, cross peaks are …