Molecular dynamics simulations for rationalizing polymer bioconjugation strategies: Challenges, recent developments, and future opportunities

J Kehrein, C Sotriffer - ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2023 - ACS Publications
The covalent modification of proteins with polymers is a well-established method for
improving the pharmacokinetic properties of therapeutically valuable biologics. The …

Polyply; a python suite for facilitating simulations of macromolecules and nanomaterials

F Grünewald, R Alessandri, PC Kroon… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Molecular dynamics simulations play an increasingly important role in the rational design of
(nano)-materials and in the study of biomacromolecules. However, generating input files …

Polymer structure predictor (PSP): a python toolkit for predicting atomic-level structural models for a range of polymer geometries

H Sahu, KH Shen, JH Montoya, H Tran… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional atomic-level models of polymers are the starting points for physics-based
simulation studies. A capability to generate reasonable initial structural models is highly …

Predicting the Glass Transition Temperature of Biopolymers via High-Throughput Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Machine Learning

D Martí, R Pétuya, E Bosoni… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nature has only provided us with a limited number of biobased and biodegradable building
blocks. Therefore, the fine-tuning of the sustainable polymer properties is expected to be …

Exploring the effect of enhanced sampling on protein stability prediction

D Markthaler, M Fleck, B Stankiewicz… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Changes in protein stability due to side-chain mutations are evaluated by alchemical free-
energy calculations based on classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in explicit …

Automatic multiscale method of building up a cross-linked polymer reaction system: bridging smiles to the multiscale molecular dynamics simulation

HW Pei, YL Zhu, ZY Lu, JP Li… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An automatic method is introduced to generate the initial configuration and input file from
SMILES for multiscale molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of cross-linked polymer reaction …

Unveiling the G4-PAMAM capacity to bind and protect Ang-(1-7) bioactive peptide by molecular dynamics simulations

LA Chi, S Asgharpour, J Correa-Basurto… - Journal of Computer …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Angiotensin-(1-7) re-balance the Renin-Angiotensin system affected during several
pathologies, including the new COVID-19; cardiovascular diseases; and cancer. However …

High Charge Density in Peptide Dendrimers is Required to Destabilize Membranes: Insights into Endosome Evasion

FEP Rodrigues, T Darbre… - Journal of chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Peptide dendrimers are a type of branched, symmetric, and topologically well-defined
molecule that have already been used as delivery systems for nucleic acid transfection …

From Linear to Nets: Multiconfiguration Polymer Structure Generation with PolyFlin

AK Umar, PK Limpikirati… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular modeling and simulations are essential tools in polymer science and engineering,
enabling researchers to predict and understand the properties of macromolecules, including …

Molecular Modeling in Drug Delivery: Polymer Protective Coatings as Case Study

A Bunker, J Kehrein - … Pharmaceutics: AI and Modeling in Pharma …, 2024 - books.google.com
In this chapter, we discuss the use of the computational technique of molecular dynamics
(MD) simulation as a design tool for the development of polymers as a means to enhance …