Dielectric continuum methods for quantum chemistry

JM Herbert - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review describes the theory and implementation of implicit solvation models based on
continuum electrostatics. Within quantum chemistry this formalism is sometimes …

gmx_MMPBSA: a new tool to perform end-state free energy calculations with GROMACS

MS Valdés-Tresanco… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics/Poisson–Boltzmann (Generalized-Born) surface area is one of the
most popular methods to estimate binding free energies. This method has been proven to …

Boosting the full potential of PyMOL with structural biology plugins

S Rosignoli, A Paiardini - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, the number of available structural bioinformatics pipelines,
libraries, plugins, web resources and software has increased exponentially and become …

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

P Gainza, S Wehrle, A Van Hall-Beauvais, A Marchand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes
governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been …

The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid phosphoprotein forms mutually exclusive condensates with RNA and the membrane-associated M protein

S Lu, Q Ye, D Singh, Y Cao, JK Diedrich… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The multifunctional nucleocapsid (N) protein in SARS-CoV-2 binds the~ 30 kb viral RNA
genome to aid its packaging into the 80–90 nm membrane-enveloped virion. The N protein …

Omicron (BA. 1) and sub‐variants (BA. 1.1, BA. 2, and BA. 3) of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike infectivity and pathogenicity: A comparative sequence and structural‐based …

S Kumar, K Karuppanan… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
has now spread throughout the world. We used computational tools to assess the spike …

Mutations on RBD of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant result in stronger binding to human ACE2 receptor

CS Lupala, Y Ye, H Chen, XD Su, H Liu - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to more than 270 million
infections and 5.3 million of deaths worldwide. Several major variants of SARS-CoV-2 have …

[HTML][HTML] A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Deciphering interaction fingerprints from protein molecular surfaces using geometric deep learning

P Gainza, F Sverrisson, F Monti, E Rodola, D Boscaini… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Predicting interactions between proteins and other biomolecules solely based on structure
remains a challenge in biology. A high-level representation of protein structure, the …

ChAdOx1 interacts with CAR and PF4 with implications for thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome

AT Baker, RJ Boyd, D Sarkar, A Teijeira-Crespo… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Vaccines derived from chimpanzee adenovirus Y25 (ChAdOx1), human adenovirus type 26
(HAdV-D26), and human adenovirus type 5 (HAdV-C5) are critical in combatting the severe …