Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …

SMOG 2: a versatile software package for generating structure-based models

JK Noel, M Levi, M Raghunathan… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Molecular dynamics simulations with coarse-grained or simplified Hamiltonians have proven
to be an effective means of capturing the functionally important long-time and large-length …

[HTML][HTML] Structure–function analysis of NEET proteins uncovers their role as key regulators of iron and ROS homeostasis in health and disease

S Tamir, ML Paddock, M Darash-Yahana-Baram… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
A novel family of 2Fe–2S proteins, the NEET family, was discovered during the last decade
in numerous organisms, including archea, bacteria, algae, plant and human; suggesting an …

Dimeric interactions and complex formation using direct coevolutionary couplings

RN Dos Santos, F Morcos, B Jana, AD Andricopulo… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
We develop a procedure to characterize the association of protein structures into
homodimers using coevolutionary couplings extracted from Direct Coupling Analysis (DCA) …

Dynamic asymmetry exposes 2019-nCoV prefusion spike

S Roy, A Jaiswar, R Sarkar - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) spike protein is a smart molecular machine that
instigates the entry of coronavirus to the host cell causing the COVID-19 pandemic. In this …

The physical and evolutionary energy landscapes of devolved protein sequences corresponding to pseudogenes

H Jaafari, C Bueno, NP Schafer, J Martin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Protein evolution is guided by structural, functional, and dynamical constraints ensuring
organismal viability. Pseudogenes are genomic sequences identified in many eukaryotes …

[HTML][HTML] Rheostats, toggles, and neutrals, Oh my! A new framework for understanding how amino acid changes modulate protein function

L Swint-Kruse, AW Fenton - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Advances in personalized medicine and protein engineering require accurately predicting
outcomes of amino acid substitutions. Many algorithms correctly predict that evolutionarily …

Large-scale conformational transitions and dimerization are encoded in the amino-acid sequences of Hsp70 chaperones

D Malinverni, S Marsili, A Barducci… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Hsp70s are a class of ubiquitous and highly conserved molecular chaperones playing a
central role in the regulation of proteostasis in the cell. Hsp70s assist a myriad of cellular …

Epistatic contributions promote the unification of incompatible models of neutral molecular evolution

JA De La Paz, CM Nartey, M Yuvaraj… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
We introduce a model of amino acid sequence evolution that accounts for the statistical
behavior of real sequences induced by epistatic interactions. We base the model dynamics …