Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Exploring free-energy landscapes of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution using NMR spectroscopy

MR Jensen, M Zweckstetter, J Huang… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The last 15 years have seen a paradigm shift in our understanding of protein biochemistry,
with the realization that an unexpectedly high fraction of the human genome codes for …

Water dispersion interactions strongly influence simulated structural properties of disordered protein states

S Piana, AG Donchev, P Robustelli… - The journal of physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Many proteins can be partially or completely disordered under physiological conditions.
Structural characterization of these disordered states using experimental methods can be …

Molecular interactions contributing to FUS SYGQ LC-RGG phase separation and co-partitioning with RNA polymerase II heptads

AC Murthy, WS Tang, N Jovic, AM Janke… - Nature structural & …, 2021 - nature.com
The RNA-binding protein FUS (Fused in Sarcoma) mediates phase separation in
biomolecular condensates and functions in transcription by clustering with RNA polymerase …

Structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins depend strongly on force field: a comparison to experiment

S Rauscher, V Gapsys, MJ Gajda… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are notoriously challenging to study both
experimentally and computationally. The structure of IDPs cannot be described by a single …

Building a more predictive protein force field: a systematic and reproducible route to AMBER-FB15

LP Wang, KA McKiernan, J Gomes… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The increasing availability of high-quality experimental data and first-principles calculations
creates opportunities for develo** more accurate empirical force fields for simulation of …

Systematic improvement of a classical molecular model of water

LP Wang, T Head-Gordon, JW Ponder… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report the iAMOEBA (“inexpensive AMOEBA”) classical polarizable water model. The
iAMOEBA model uses a direct approximation to describe electronic polarizability, in which …

Monomeric Aβ1–40 and Aβ1–42 Peptides in Solution Adopt Very Similar Ramachandran Map Distributions That Closely Resemble Random Coil

J Roche, Y Shen, JH Lee, J Ying, A Bax - Biochemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
The pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the aggregation and fibrillation
of amyloid peptides Aβ1–40 and Aβ1–42 into amyloid plaques. Despite strong potential …

Constructing ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins

CK Fisher, CM Stultz - Current opinion in structural biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The relatively flat energy landscapes associated with intrinsically disordered proteins makes
modeling these systems especially problematic. A comprehensive model for these proteins …

Polymorphism in Alzheimer Aβ amyloid organization reflects conformational selection in a rugged energy landscape

Y Miller, B Ma, R Nussinov - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Amyloids can have normal biological functions. 1r3 However, amyloidogenic proteins can
also form unwanted oligomeric or polymeric aggregates when disturbed from their native …