Biomolecular dynamics: order–disorder transitions and energy landscapes

PC Whitford, KY Sanbonmatsu… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
While the energy landscape theory of protein folding is now a widely accepted view for
understanding how relatively weak molecular interactions lead to rapid and cooperative …

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 …

Quantifying internal friction in unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins with single-molecule spectroscopy

A Soranno, B Buchli, D Nettels… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Internal friction, which reflects the “roughness” of the energy landscape, plays an important
role for proteins by modulating the dynamics of their folding and other conformational …

What protein folding teaches us about biological function and molecular machines

PC Whitford, JN Onuchic - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Protein folding was the first area of molecular biology for which a systematic statistical–
mechanical analysis of dynamics was developed. As a result, folding is described as a …

Diffusion models of protein folding

RB Best, G Hummer - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
In theory and in the analysis of experiments, protein folding is often described as diffusion
along a single coordinate. We explore here the application of a one-dimensional diffusion …

The many faces of structure-based potentials: from protein folding landscapes to structural characterization of complex biomolecules

JK Noel, JN Onuchic - … Modeling of Biological Systems: From Molecules to …, 2012 - Springer
Structural biology techniques, such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), x-ray
crystallography, and cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), have provided extraordinary …

Microscopic aspects of Stretched Exponential Relaxation (SER) in homogeneous molecular and network glasses and polymers

JC Phillips - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2011 - Elsevier
The “diffusion to traps” model quantitatively explains “magic” stretching fractions β (Tg) for a
wide variety of relaxation experiments (nearly 50 altogether) on microscopically …

[HTML][HTML] Supersymmetric quantum mechanics method for the Fokker–Planck equation with applications to protein folding dynamics

F Polotto, E Drigo Filho, J Chahine… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work developed analytical methods to explore the kinetics of the time-dependent
probability distributions over thermodynamic free energy profiles of protein folding and …

Reduced model captures Mg2+-RNA interaction free energy of riboswitches

RL Hayes, JK Noel, PC Whitford, U Mohanty… - Biophysical journal, 2014 - cell.com
The stability of RNA tertiary structures depends heavily on Mg 2+. The Mg 2+-RNA
interaction free energy that stabilizes an RNA structure can be computed experimentally …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion of tRNA inside the ribosome is position-dependent

H Yang, P Bandarkar, R Horne, VBP Leite… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest to quantify the energy landscape that
governs ribosome dynamics. However, in order to quantitatively integrate theoretical …