Insights from coarse-grained Gō models for protein folding and dynamics

RD Hills Jr, CL Brooks III - International journal of molecular sciences, 2009 - mdpi.com
Exploring the landscape of large scale conformational changes such as protein folding at
atomistic detail poses a considerable computational challenge. Coarse-grained …

Recent successes in coarse‐grained modeling of DNA

DA Potoyan, A Savelyev… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The growing interest in the DNA‐based mesoscale systems of biological and nonbiological
nature has encouraged the computational molecular science community to develop coarse …

Molecular crowding enhances native state stability and refolding rates of globular proteins

MS Cheung, D Klimov… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
The presence of macromolecules in cells geometrically restricts the available space for
poplypeptide chains. To study the effects of macromolecular crowding on folding …

Structure, function, and folding of phosphoglycerate kinase are strongly perturbed by macromolecular crowding

A Dhar, A Samiotakis, S Ebbinghaus… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
We combine experiment and computer simulation to show how macromolecular crowding
dramatically affects the structure, function, and folding landscape of phosphoglycerate …

An all‐atom structure‐based potential for proteins: bridging minimal models with all‐atom empirical forcefields

PC Whitford, JK Noel, S Gosavi, A Schug… - Proteins: Structure …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Protein dynamics take place on many time and length scales. Coarse‐grained structure‐
based \bf(G\overlineo) models utilize the funneled energy landscape theory of protein …

Molecular crowding enhances native structure and stability of α/β protein flavodoxin

L Stagg, SQ Zhang, MS Cheung… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
To investigate the consequences of macromolecular crowding on the behavior of a globular
protein, we performed a combined experimental and computational study on the 148 …

Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein

D Homouz, M Perham, A Samiotakis… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
How the crowded environment inside cells affects the structures of proteins with aspherical
shapes is a vital question because many proteins and protein–protein complexes in vivo …

Effects of denaturants and osmolytes on proteins are accurately predicted by the molecular transfer model

EP O'Brien, G Ziv, G Haran… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Interactions between denaturants and proteins are commonly used to probe the structures of
the denatured state ensemble and their stabilities. Osmolytes, a class of small intracellular …

Factors Defining Effects of Macromolecular Crowding on Protein Stability: An in Vitro/in Silico Case Study Using Cytochrome c

A Christiansen, Q Wang, A Samiotakis, MS Cheung… - Biochemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Previous experiments with two single-domain proteins showed that macromolecular
crowding can stabilize dramatically toward heat perturbation and modulate native-state …

Nonnative electrostatic interactions can modulate protein folding: molecular dynamics with a grain of salt

A Azia, Y Levy - Journal of molecular biology, 2009 - Elsevier
In recent years, a growing number of protein folding studies have focused on the unfolded
state, which is now recognized as playing a major role in the folding process. Some of these …