Large-Scale Conformational Changes and Protein Function: Breaking the in silico Barrier

L Orellana - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale conformational changes are essential to link protein structures with their
function at the cell and organism scale, but have been elusive both experimentally and …

Protein conformational ensembles in function: roles and mechanisms

R Nussinov, Y Liu, W Zhang, H Jang - RSC Chemical Biology, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The sequence-structure-function paradigm has dominated twentieth century molecular
biology. The paradigm tacitly stipulated that for each sequence there exists a single, well …

Design principles for energy transfer in the photosystem II supercomplex from kinetic transition networks

SJ Yang, DJ Wales, EJ Woods, GR Fleming - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Photosystem II (PSII) has the unique ability to perform water-splitting. With light-harvesting
complexes, it forms the PSII supercomplex (PSII-SC) which is a functional unit that can …

Molecular energy landscapes of hardware-efficient ansatze in quantum computing

B Choy, DJ Wales - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rapid advances in quantum computing have opened up new opportunities for solving the
central electronic structure problem in computational chemistry. In the noisy intermediate …

The energy landscape perspective: Encoding structure and function for biomolecules

K Röder, DJ Wales - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The energy landscape perspective is outlined with particular reference to biomolecules that
perform multiple functions. We associate these multifunctional molecules with multifunnel …

High resolution ensemble description of metamorphic and intrinsically disordered proteins using an efficient hybrid parallel tempering scheme

R Appadurai, J Nagesh, A Srivastava - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Map** free energy landscapes of complex multi-funneled metamorphic proteins and
weakly-funneled intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) remains challenging. While rare …

Dynamical signatures of multifunnel energy landscapes

DJ Wales - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multifunctional systems, such as molecular switches, exhibit multifunnel energy landscapes
associated with the alternative functional states. In this contribution the multifunnel …

Structured protein domains enter the spotlight: modulators of biomolecular condensate form and function

N Hess, JA Joseph - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2025 - cell.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless organelles that concentrate proteins and
nucleic acids. One of the primary components of condensates is multidomain proteins …

Analysing ill-conditioned Markov chains

EJ Woods, D Kannan, DJ Sharpe… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Discrete state Markov chains in discrete or continuous time are widely used to model
phenomena in the social, physical and life sciences. In many cases, the model can feature a …

Replica exchange with hybrid tempering efficiently samples PGLa peptide binding to anionic bilayer

SR Bowers, C Lockhart, DK Klimov - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We evaluated the utility of a variant of the replica exchange method, a replica exchange with
hybrid tempering (REHT), for all-atom explicit water biomolecular simulations and compared …