QM/MM methods for biomolecular systems

HM Senn, W Thiel - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Two are better than one: Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods are
the state‐of‐the‐art computational technique for treating reactive and other “electronic” …

How enzymes work: analysis by modern rate theory and computer simulations

M Garcia-Viloca, J Gao, M Karplus, DG Truhlar - Science, 2004 - science.org
Advances in transition state theory and computer simulations are providing new insights into
the sources of enzyme catalysis. Both lowering of the activation free energy and changes in …

Combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods in computational enzymology

MW van der Kamp, AJ Mulholland - Biochemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
Computational enzymology is a rapidly maturing field that is increasingly integral to
understanding mechanisms of enzyme-catalyzed reactions and their practical applications …

Quantum mechanical methods for enzyme kinetics

J Gao, DG Truhlar - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract This review discusses methods for the incorporation of quantum mechanical
effects into enzyme kinetics simulations in which the enzyme is an explicit part of the model …

Biomolecular simulations: recent developments in force fields, simulations of enzyme catalysis, protein-ligand, protein-protein, and protein-nucleic acid noncovalent …

W Wang, O Donini, CM Reyes… - Annual review of …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Computer modeling has been developed and widely applied in studying
molecules of biological interest. The force field is the cornerstone of computer simulations …

Computer simulations of enzyme catalysis: methods, progress, and insights

A Warshel - Annual review of biophysics and biomolecular …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Understanding the action of enzymes on an atomistic level is one of the important
aims of modern biophysics. This review describes the state of the art in addressing this …

Mechanisms and free energies of enzymatic reactions

J Gao, S Ma, DT Major, K Nam, J Pu… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Most enzymatic reactions have very large and remarkably similar apparent second-order
rate constants, kcat/KM, at mean values of about 107 M-1 s-1 with kcat in the range of 10 …

Frontier bonds in QM/MM methods: A comparison of different approaches

N Reuter, A Dejaegere, B Maigret… - The Journal of Physical …, 2000 - ACS Publications
A major complication in hybrid QM/MM methods is the treatment of the frontier between the
quantum part, describing the reactive region, and the classical part, describing the …

Energetics and dynamics of enzymatic reactions

J Villa, A Warshel - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2001 - ACS Publications
This review considers the advances made in using computer simulations to elucidate the
catalytic power of enzymes. It is shown that some current approaches, and in particular the …

Progress in Ab Initio QM/MM Free-Energy Simulations of Electrostatic Energies in Proteins: Accelerated QM/MM Studies of pKa, Redox Reactions and Solvation …

SCL Kamerlin, M Haranczyk… - The journal of physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) approaches have been used
to provide a general scheme for chemical reactions in proteins. However, such approaches …