Generalized Langevin equation as a model for barrier crossing dynamics in biomolecular folding

R Satija, DE Makarov - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conformational memory in single-molecule dynamics has attracted recent attention and, in
particular, has been invoked as a possible explanation of some of the intriguing properties of …

Convergence and equilibrium in molecular dynamics simulations

F Ormeño, IJ General - Communications Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Molecular dynamics is a powerful tool that has been long used for the simulation of
biomolecules. It complements experiments, by providing detailed information about …

Transition path times in non-Markovian activated rate processes

E Medina, R Satija, DE Makarov - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transition paths are brief excursions taken by molecules when they cross barriers
separating stable molecular conformations. When observed in single-molecule experiments …

On the rapid calculation of binding affinities for antigen and antibody design and affinity maturation simulations

S Conti, EY Lau, V Ovchinnikov - Antibodies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The accurate and efficient calculation of protein-protein binding affinities is an essential
component in antibody and antigen design and optimization, and in computer modeling of …

Slow domain reconfiguration causes power-law kinetics in a two-state enzyme

I Grossman-Haham, G Rosenblum… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Protein dynamics are typically captured well by rate equations that predict exponential
decays for two-state reactions. Here, we describe a remarkable exception. The electron …

Effect of memory and inertial contribution on transition-time distributions: Theory and simulations

D Singh, K Mondal, S Chaudhury - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition paths refer to the time taken by molecules to cross a barrier separating two
molecular conformations. In this work, we study how memory, as well as inertial contribution …

Dynamics of disordered proteins under confinement: Memory effects and internal friction

A Das, DE Makarov - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2018 - ACS Publications
Many proteins are disordered under physiological conditions. How efficiently they can
search for their cellular targets and how fast they can fold upon target binding is determined …

Non-Markovian intracellular transport with sub-diffusion and run-length dependent detachment rate

N Korabel, TA Waigh, S Fedotov, VJ Allan - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Intracellular transport of organelles is fundamental to cell function and health. The mounting
evidence suggests that this transport is in fact anomalous. However, the reasons for the …

Analysis of velocity autocorrelation functions from molecular dynamics simulations of a small peptide by the generalized Langevin equation with a power-law kernel

D Abergel, A Polimeno, M Zerbetto - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Internal motions play an essential role in the biological functions of proteins and have been
the subject of numerous theoretical and spectroscopic studies. Such complex environments …

Fractional Extended Diffusion Theory to capture anomalous relaxation from biased/accelerated molecular simulations

A Rapallo - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Biased and accelerated molecular simulations (BAMS) are widely used tools to observe
relevant molecular phenomena occurring on time scales inaccessible to standard molecular …