Computer modeling of halogen bonds and other σ-hole interactions

MH Kolar, P Hobza - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
In the field of noncovalent interactions a new paradigm has recently become popular. It
stems from the analysis of molecular electrostatic potentials and introduces a label, which …

Ligand-binding affinity estimates supported by quantum-mechanical methods

U Ryde, P Soderhjelm - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
One of the largest challenges of computational chemistry is calculation of accurate free
energies for the binding of a small molecule to a biological macromolecule, which has …

Structural insights into (tere) phthalate-ester hydrolysis by a carboxylesterase and its role in promoting PET depolymerization

G von Haugwitz, X Han, L Pfaff, Q Li, H Wei, J Gao… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
TfCa, a promiscuous carboxylesterase from Thermobifida fusca, was found to hydrolyze
polyethylene terephthalate (PET) degradation intermediates such as bis (2-hydroxyethyl) …

Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 2. Explicit solvent particle mesh Ewald

R Salomon-Ferrer, AW Gotz, D Poole… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present an implementation of explicit solvent all atom classical molecular dynamics (MD)
within the AMBER program package that runs entirely on CUDA-enabled GPUs. First …

Assessing the current state of amber force field modifications for DNA

R Galindo-Murillo, JC Robertson… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The utility of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to model biomolecular structure,
dynamics, and interactions has witnessed enormous advances in recent years due to the …

Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 1. Generalized born

AW Gotz, MJ Williamson, D Xu, D Poole… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present an implementation of generalized Born implicit solvent all-atom classical
molecular dynamics (MD) within the AMBER program package that runs entirely on CUDA …

Calculating partition coefficients of small molecules in octanol/water and cyclohexane/water

CC Bannan, G Calabró, DY Kyu… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Partition coefficients describe how a solute is distributed between two immiscible solvents.
They are used in drug design as a measure of a solute's hydrophobicity and a proxy for its …

The IDP-Specific Force Field ff14IDPSFF Improves the Conformer Sampling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

D Song, R Luo, HF Chen - Journal of chemical information and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or intrinsically disordered regions do not have a fixed
tertiary structure but play key roles in signal regulation, molecule recognition, and drug …

Toward improved description of DNA backbone: revisiting epsilon and zeta torsion force field parameters

M Zgarbová, FJ Luque, J Sponer… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We present a refinement of the backbone torsion parameters ε and ζ of the Cornell et al.
AMBER force field for DNA simulations. The new parameters, denoted as εζOL1, were …

Folding simulations for proteins with diverse topologies are accessible in days with a physics-based force field and implicit solvent

H Nguyen, J Maier, H Huang, V Perrone… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The millisecond time scale needed for molecular dynamics simulations to approach the
quantitative study of protein folding is not yet routine. One approach to extend the simulation …