Water determines the structure and dynamics of proteins

MC Bellissent-Funel, A Hassanali, M Havenith… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Water is an essential participant in the stability, structure, dynamics, and function of proteins
and other biomolecules. Thermodynamically, changes in the aqueous environment affect …

Perspective: Coarse-grained models for biomolecular systems

WG Noid - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
By focusing on essential features, while averaging over less important details, coarse-
grained (CG) models provide significant computational and conceptual advantages with …

ff14SB: improving the accuracy of protein side chain and backbone parameters from ff99SB

JA Maier, C Martinez, K Kasavajhala… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics is powerful for its speed in atomistic simulations, but an accurate force
field is required. The Amber ff99SB force field improved protein secondary structure balance …

GROMACS 4.5: a high-throughput and highly parallel open source molecular simulation toolkit

S Pronk, P Robustelli, S Piana, DE Shaw - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a valuable tool for characterizing the structural
dynamics of folded proteins and should be similarly applicable to disordered proteins and …

Routine microsecond molecular dynamics simulations with AMBER on GPUs. 1. Generalized born

AW Gotz, MJ Williamson, D Xu, D Poole… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present an implementation of generalized Born implicit solvent all-atom classical
molecular dynamics (MD) within the AMBER program package that runs entirely on CUDA …

Force field benchmark of organic liquids: density, enthalpy of vaporization, heat capacities, surface tension, isothermal compressibility, volumetric expansion …

C Caleman, PJ Van Maaren, M Hong… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The chemical composition of small organic molecules is often very similar to amino acid side
chains or the bases in nucleic acids, and hence there is no a priori reason why a molecular …

Systematic validation of protein force fields against experimental data

K Lindorff-Larsen, P Maragakis, S Piana… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Molecular dynamics simulations provide a vehicle for capturing the structures, motions, and
interactions of biological macromolecules in full atomic detail. The accuracy of such …

Toward the solution of the protein structure prediction problem

R Pearce, Y Zhang - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Since Anfinsen demonstrated that the information encoded in a protein's amino acid
sequence determines its structure in 1973, solving the protein structure prediction problem …