Theoretical and computational protein design

I Samish, CM MacDermaid… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
From exponentially large numbers of possible sequences, protein design seeks to identify
the properties of those that fold to predetermined structures and have targeted structural and …

Fast protein folding kinetics

H Gelman, M Gruebele - Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Fast-folding proteins have been a major focus of computational and experimental study
because they are accessible to both techniques: they are small and fast enough to be …

Development of a force field for the simulation of single-chain proteins and protein–protein complexes

S Piana, P Robustelli, D Tan, S Chen… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The accuracy of atomistic physics-based force fields for the simulation of biological
macromolecules has typically been benchmarked experimentally using biophysical data …

A kinetic model of trp-cage folding from multiple biased molecular dynamics simulations

F Marinelli, F Pietrucci, A Laio… - PLoS computational …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Trp-cage is a designed 20-residue polypeptide that, in spite of its size, shares several
features with larger globular proteins. Although the system has been intensively investigated …

The Trp-cage: optimizing the stability of a globular miniprotein

B Barua, JC Lin, VD Williams, P Kummler… - … , Design & Selection, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The Trp-cage, as the smallest miniprotein, remains the subject of numerous computational
and experimental studies of protein folding dynamics and pathways. The original Trp-cage …

Microsecond simulations of the folding/unfolding thermodynamics of the Trp‐cage miniprotein

R Day, D Paschek, AE Garcia - Proteins: Structure, Function …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We study the unbiased folding/unfolding thermodynamics of the Trp‐cage miniprotein using
detailed molecular dynamics simulations of an all‐atom model of the protein in explicit …

How do thermophilic proteins and proteomes withstand high temperature?

L Sawle, K Ghosh - Biophysical journal, 2011 - cell.com
We attempt to understand the origin of enhanced stability in thermophilic proteins by
analyzing thermodynamic data for 116 proteins, the largest data set achieved to date. We …

A pre-existing hydrophobic collapse in the unfolded state of an ultrafast folding protein

KH Mok, LT Kuhn, M Goez, IJ Day, JC Lin… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Insights into the conformational passage of a polypeptide chain across its free energy
landscape have come from the judicious combination of experimental studies and computer …

Unfolding thermodynamics of Trp-cage, a 20 residue miniprotein, studied by differential scanning calorimetry and circular dichroism spectroscopy

WW Streicher, GI Makhatadze - Biochemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
Small proteins provide convenient models for computational studies of protein folding and
stability, which are usually compared with experimental data. Until recently, the unfolding of …

Replica exchange simulation of reversible folding/unfolding of the Trp-cage miniprotein in explicit solvent: On the structure and possible role of internal water

D Paschek, H Nymeyer, AE García - Journal of Structural Biology, 2007 - Elsevier
We simulate the folding/unfolding equilibrium of the 20-residue miniprotein Trp-cage. We
use replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations of the AMBER94 atomic detail model …