Electrostatic interactions in protein structure, folding, binding, and condensation

HX Zhou, X Pang - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Charged and polar groups, through forming ion pairs, hydrogen bonds, and other less
specific electrostatic interactions, impart important properties to proteins. Modulation of the …

Jaguar: A high‐performance quantum chemistry software program with strengths in life and materials sciences

AD Bochevarov, E Harder, TF Hughes… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Jaguar is an ab initio quantum chemical program that specializes in fast electronic structure
predictions for molecular systems of medium and large size. Jaguar focuses on …

PROPKA3: Consistent Treatment of Internal and Surface Residues in Empirical pKa Predictions

MHM Olsson, CR Søndergaard… - Journal of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
In this study, we have revised the rules and parameters for one of the most commonly used
empirical p K a predictors, PROPKA, based on better physical description of the desolvation …

Electrostatic basis for enzyme catalysis

A Warshel, PK Sharma, M Kato, Y **ang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic reactions play a fundamentally important role in controlling and performing most
life processes. 1-3 Thus, understanding how enzymes work has both fundamental and …

P450 Enzymes: Their Structure, Reactivity, and Selectivity Modeled by QM/MM Calculations

S Shaik, S Cohen, Y Wang, H Chen, D Kumar… - Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The introduction of oxygen into biochemical processes has brought about an evolutionary
leap in the history of life, whereby many organisms have evolved to use oxygen as part of …

Theoretical perspective on the structure and mechanism of cytochrome P450 enzymes

S Shaik, D Kumar, SP de Visser, A Altun… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Cytochrome P450 is one of the most versatile enzymes in nature. 1 It uses dioxygen and two
reducing equivalents to catalyze a great variety of stereospecific and regioselective oxygen …

Alchemical binding free energy calculations in AMBER20: Advances and best practices for drug discovery

TS Lee, BK Allen, TJ Giese, Z Guo, P Li… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinities and the associated thermodynamics of
biomolecular recognition is a primary objective of structure-based drug design. Alchemical …

Recent advances in the theory and molecular simulation of biological electron transfer reactions

J Blumberger - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW The transfer and transport of electrons through
biological matter is one of the key steps underlying cellular energy harvesting, storage, and …

Computational electrochemistry: prediction of liquid-phase reduction potentials

AV Marenich, J Ho, ML Coote, CJ Cramer… - Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This article reviews recent developments and applications in the area of computational
electrochemistry. Our focus is on predicting the reduction potentials of electron transfer and …

Electronic structures of metal sites in proteins and models: contributions to function in blue copper proteins

EI Solomon, RK Szilagyi, S DeBeer George… - Chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Approximately one-half of all known protein crystal structures in the protein data bank (PDB)
contain metal ion cofactors, which play vital roles in charge neutralization, structure, and …