Classical electrostatics for biomolecular simulations

GA Cisneros, M Karttunen, P Ren, C Sagui - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
Classical atomistic simulations, also known as molecular mechanics simulations, use simple
potential-energy functions to model molecular systems at the atomic level. In this …

Acyl chain order parameter profiles in phospholipid bilayers: computation from molecular dynamics simulations and comparison with 2H NMR experiments

LS Vermeer, BL De Groot, V Réat, A Milon… - European Biophysics …, 2007 - Springer
Order parameters from deuterium NMR are often used to validate or calibrate molecular
dynamics simulations. This paper gives a short overview of the literature in which …

The Amber biomolecular simulation programs

DA Case, TE Cheatham III, T Darden… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We describe the development, current features, and some directions for future development
of the Amber package of computer programs. This package evolved from a program that was …

CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder for mixed bilayers and its application to yeast membranes

S Jo, JB Lim, JB Klauda, W Im - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
Abstract The CHARMM-GUI Membrane Builder (http://www. charmm-gui.
org/input/membrane), an intuitive, straightforward, web-based graphical user interface, was …

Under the influence of alcohol: the effect of ethanol and methanol on lipid bilayers

M Patra, E Salonen, E Terama, I Vattulainen, R Faller… - Biophysical journal, 2006 - cell.com
Extensive microscopic molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to study the
effects of short-chain alcohols, methanol and ethanol, on two different fully hydrated lipid …

Capacities of membrane lipids to accumulate neutral organic chemicals

S Endo, BI Escher, KU Goss - Environmental science & …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Lipids have been considered as the predominant components for bioaccumulation of
organic chemicals. However, differences in accumulation properties between different types …

Ionic Surfactant Aggregates in Saline Solutions: Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) in the Presence of Excess Sodium Chloride (NaCl) or Calcium Chloride (CaCl2)

M Sammalkorpi, M Karttunen… - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The properties of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) aggregates in saline solutions of excess
sodium chloride (NaCl) or calcium chloride (CaCl2) ions were studied through extensive …

Assessing the nature of lipid raft membranes

PS Niemelä, S Ollila, MT Hyvönen… - PLoS computational …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
The paradigm of biological membranes has recently gone through a major update. Instead
of being fluid and homogeneous, recent studies suggest that membranes are characterized …

Anomalous and normal diffusion of proteins and lipids in crowded lipid membranes

M Javanainen, H Hammaren, L Monticelli… - Faraday …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Lateral diffusion plays a crucial role in numerous processes that take place in cell
membranes, yet it is quite poorly understood in native membranes characterized by, eg …

A critical comparison of biomembrane force fields: structure and dynamics of model DMPC, POPC, and POPE bilayers

K Pluhackova, SA Kirsch, J Han, L Sun… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations have become an important source of information
for the structure and dynamics of biomembranes at molecular detail difficult to access in …