Quantitative approaches for decoding the specificity of the human T cell repertoire

ZS Ghoreyshi, JT George - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
T cell receptor (TCR)-peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) interactions play a
vital role in initiating immune responses against pathogens, and the specificity of TCRpMHC …

Birth and future of multiscale modeling for macromolecular systems (Nobel Lecture)

M Levitt - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Winning the Nobel Prize is a unique and marvelous experience that no one can prepare for
or in any way know what to expect. The instantaneous transformation from an ordinary …

SimRNA: a coarse-grained method for RNA folding simulations and 3D structure prediction

MJ Boniecki, G Lach, WK Dawson… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
RNA molecules play fundamental roles in cellular processes. Their function and interactions
with other biomolecules are dependent on the ability to form complex three-dimensional …

Avoiding false positive conclusions in molecular simulation: the importance of replicas

B Knapp, L Ospina, CM Deane - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Molecular simulations are a computational technique used to investigate the dynamics of
proteins and other molecules. The free energy landscape of these simulations is often …

A nucleotide-level coarse-grained model of RNA

P Šulc, F Romano, TE Ouldridge, JPK Doye… - The Journal of chemical …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new, nucleotide-level model for RNA, oxRNA, based on the coarse-graining
methodology recently developed for the oxDNA model of DNA. The model is designed to …

Structural insights into species-specific features of the ribosome from the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis

K Yang, JY Chang, Z Cui, X Li, R Meng… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Ribosomes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) possess species-specific
ribosomal RNA (rRNA) expansion segments and ribosomal proteins (rProtein). Here, we …

Modeling nucleic acids

AYL Sim, P Minary, M Levitt - Current opinion in structural biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Nucleic acids are an important class of biological macromolecules that carry out a variety of
cellular roles. For many functions, naturally occurring DNA and RNA molecules need to fold …

[HTML][HTML] Coarse-grained modeling of RNA 3D structure

WK Dawson, M Maciejczyk, EJ Jankowska, JM Bujnicki - Methods, 2016 - Elsevier
Functional RNA molecules depend on three-dimensional (3D) structures to carry out their
tasks within the cell. Understanding how these molecules interact to carry out their biological …

A coarse-grained model with implicit salt for RNAs: predicting 3D structure, stability and salt effect

YZ Shi, FH Wang, YY Wu, ZJ Tan - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
To bridge the gap between the sequences and 3-dimensional (3D) structures of RNAs,
some computational models have been proposed for predicting RNA 3D structures …

Computational and experimental characterization of RNA cubic nanoscaffolds

KA Afonin, W Kasprzak, E Bindewald… - Therapeutic RNA …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
122The fast-develo** field of RNA nanotechnology requires the adoption and
development of novel and faster computational approaches to modeling and …