Normal mode analysis of biomolecular structures: functional mechanisms of membrane proteins

I Bahar, TR Lezon, A Bakan, IH Shrivastava - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
A polymer chain of N atoms enjoys 3N-6 internal degrees of freedom, which gives rise to
infinitely many conformations. Even a simple model of N) 100 atoms where bond lengths …

Global dynamics of proteins: bridging between structure and function

I Bahar, TR Lezon, LW Yang… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Biomolecular systems possess unique, structure-encoded dynamic properties that underlie
their biological functions. Recent studies indicate that these dynamic properties are …

Principal component analysis: a method for determining the essential dynamics of proteins

CC David, DJ Jacobs - Protein dynamics: Methods and protocols, 2014 - Springer
It has become commonplace to employ principal component analysis to reveal the most
important motions in proteins. This method is more commonly known by its acronym, PCA …

ProDy: Protein Dynamics Inferred from Theory and Experiments

A Bakan, LM Meireles, I Bahar - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We developed a Python package, ProDy, for structure-based analysis of protein dynamics.
ProDy allows for quantitative characterization of structural variations in heterogeneous …

The intrinsic dynamics of enzymes plays a dominant role in determining the structural changes induced upon inhibitor binding

A Bakan, I Bahar - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The conformational flexibility of target proteins continues to be a major challenge in accurate
modeling of protein–inhibitor interactions. A fundamental issue, yet to be clarified, is whether …

Structural and dynamic characterizations highlight the deleterious role of SULT1A1 R213H polymorphism in substrate binding

R Dash, MC Ali, N Dash, MAK Azad… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Sulfotransferase 1A1 (SULT1A1) is responsible for catalyzing various types of endogenous
and exogenous compounds. Accumulating data indicates that the polymorphism rs9282861 …

Adaptability of protein structures to enable functional interactions and evolutionary implications

T Haliloglu, I Bahar - Current opinion in structural biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Intrinsic dynamics plays a major role in enabling protein interactions.•Soft/global
modes of motions facilitate binding and assembly.•Soft modes define pre-existing pathways …

WEBnm@ v2. 0: Web server and services for comparing protein flexibility

SP Tiwari, E Fuglebakk, SM Hollup, L Skjærven… - BMC …, 2014 - Springer
Background Normal mode analysis (NMA) using elastic network models is a reliable and
cost-effective computational method to characterise protein flexibility and by extension, their …

Multiscale methods for macromolecular simulations

P Sherwood, BR Brooks, MSP Sansom - Current opinion in structural …, 2008 - Elsevier
In this article we review the key modeling tools available for simulating biomolecular
systems. We consider recent developments and representative applications of mixed …

Measuring and comparing structural fluctuation patterns in large protein datasets

E Fuglebakk, J Echave, N Reuter - Bioinformatics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The function of a protein depends not only on its structure but also on its
dynamics. This is at the basis of a large body of experimental and theoretical work on protein …