Protein storytelling through physics

E Brini, C Simmerling, K Dill - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Understanding biology, particularly at the level of actionable drug
discovery, is often a matter of develo** accurate stories about how proteins work. This …

Revolutionizing peptide‐based drug discovery: Advances in the post‐AlphaFold era

L Chang, A Mondal, B Singh… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Peptide‐based drugs offer high specificity, potency, and selectivity. However, their inherent
flexibility and differences in conformational preferences between their free and bound states …

Modeling of peptides with classical and novel machine learning force fields: A comparison

D Rosenberger, JS Smith… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The replacement of classical force fields (FFs) with novel neural-network-based frameworks
is an emergent topic in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. In contrast to classical FFs …

Structural predictions of protein–DNA binding: MELD-DNA

R Esmaeeli, A Bauzá, A Perez - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Structural, regulatory and enzymatic proteins interact with DNA to maintain a healthy and
functional genome. Yet, our structural understanding of how proteins interact with DNA is …

Inexact iterative numerical linear algebra for neural network-based spectral estimation and rare-event prediction

J Strahan, SC Guo, C Lorpaiboon, AR Dinner… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Understanding dynamics in complex systems is challenging because there are many
degrees of freedom, and those that are most important for describing events of interest are …

MSMPathfinder: Identification of pathways in Markov state models

D Nagel, A Weber, G Stock - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Markov state models represent a popular means to interpret biomolecular processes in
terms of memoryless transitions between metastable conformational states. To gain insight …

Log-periodic oscillations as real-time signatures of hierarchical dynamics in proteins

E Dorbath, A Gulzar, G Stock - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The time-dependent relaxation of a dynamical system may exhibit a power-law behavior that
is superimposed by log-periodic oscillations. D. Sornette [Phys. Rep. 297, 239 (1998)] …

Data-driven Langevin modeling of nonequilibrium processes

B Lickert, S Wolf, G Stock - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
Given nonstationary data from molecular dynamics simulations, a Markovian Langevin
model is constructed that aims to reproduce the time evolution of the underlying process …

Accurate estimates of dynamical statistics using memory

C Lorpaiboon, SC Guo, J Strahan, J Weare… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Many chemical reactions and molecular processes occur on time scales that are significantly
longer than those accessible by direct simulations. One successful approach to estimating …

Binding Ensembles of p53-MDM2 Peptide Inhibitors by Combining Bayesian Inference and Atomistic Simulations

L Lang, A Perez - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Designing peptide inhibitors of the p53-MDM2 interaction against cancer is of wide interest.
Computational modeling and virtual screening are a well established step in the rational …