Revisiting the Ramachandran plot based on statistical analysis of static and dynamic characteristics of protein structures

SW Park, BH Lee, SH Song, MK Kim - Journal of Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Ramachandran plots, which describe protein structures by plotting the dihedral angle pairs
of the backbone on a two-dimensional plane, have played an important role in structural …

Elastic Network Model: A Coarse-Grained Approach to the Study of Biomolecular Dynamics

SW Park, BH Lee, MK Kim - Multiscale Science and Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Over the past several decades, biomolecular dynamics has been extensively investigated
through both theoretical and experimental approaches to uncover the general relationship …

ClustENM: ENM-based sampling of essential conformational space at full atomic resolution

Z Kurkcuoglu, I Bahar, P Doruker - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Accurate sampling of conformational space and, in particular, the transitions between
functional substates has been a challenge in molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of large …

Novel RyR2 mutation (G3118R) is associated with autosomal recessive ventricular fibrillation and sudden death: clinical, functional, and computational analysis

A Shauer, O Shor, J Wei, Y Elitzur… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background The cardiac ryanodine receptor type 2 (RyR2) is a large homotetramer, located
in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), which releases Ca2+ from the SR during systole. The …

Effect of dimerization on the dynamics of neurotransmitter: sodium symporters

M Gur, MH Cheng, E Zomot, I Bahar - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Dimerization is a common feature among the members of the neurotransmitter: sodium
symporter (NSS) family of membrane proteins. Yet, the effect of dimerization on the …

Normal mode-guided transition pathway generation in proteins

BH Lee, S Seo, MH Kim, Y Kim, S Jo, M Choi, H Lee… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The biological function of proteins is closely related to its structural motion. For instance,
structurally misfolded proteins do not function properly. Although we are able to …

Frustration‐guided motion planning reveals conformational transitions in proteins

D Budday, R Fonseca, S Leyendecker… - Proteins: Structure …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Proteins exist as conformational ensembles, exchanging between substates to perform their
function. Advances in experimental techniques yield unprecedented access to structural …

The energetics of subunit rotation in the ribosome

A Hassan, S Byju, PC Whitford - Biophysical Reviews, 2021 - Springer
Protein synthesis in the cell is controlled by an elaborate sequence of conformational
rearrangements in the ribosome. The composition of a ribosome varies by species, though …

A better prediction of conformational changes of proteins using minimally connected network models

CA Toussi, R Soheilifard - Physical Biology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Elastic network models have recently been used for studying low-frequency collective
motions of proteins. These models simplify the complexity that arises from normal mode …

Exploring conformational space with thermal fluctuations obtained by normal-mode analysis

TE Saldaño, VM Freixas, SCE Tosatto… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proteins in their native states can be represented as ensembles of conformers in dynamical
equilibrium. Thermal fluctuations are responsible for transitions between these conformers …