Molecular dynamics simulations: advances and applications

A Hospital, JR Goñi, M Orozco… - … and Applications in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Molecular dynamics simulations have evolved into a mature technique that can be used
effectively to understand macromolecular structure-to-function relationships. Present …

Thermal stability enhancement: Fundamental concepts of protein engineering strategies to manipulate the flexible structure

M Rahban, S Zolghadri, N Salehi, F Ahmad… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the temperature by just a few degrees may lead to structural perturbation or
unfolding of the protein and consequent loss of function. The concepts of flexibility and …

ATLAS: protein flexibility description from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations

Y Vander Meersche, G Cretin, A Gheeraert… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Dynamical behaviour is one of the most crucial protein characteristics. Despite the advances
in the field of protein structure resolution and prediction, analysis and prediction of protein …

How molecular size impacts RMSD applications in molecular dynamics simulations

K Sargsyan, C Grauffel, C Lim - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) is a similarity measure widely used in analysis of
macromolecular structures and dynamics. As increasingly larger macromolecular systems …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of molecular dynamics simulation in protein study

S Sinha, B Tam, SM Wang - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations is increasingly used as a powerful tool to study
protein structure-related questions. Starting from the early simulation study on the …

Geo-Measures: A PyMOL plugin for protein structure ensembles analysis

LP Kagami, GM das Neves, LFSM Timmers… - … Biology and Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Although molecular dynamics encompasses several applications, studies focusing on
biomolecular systems are central issues of this research area. Such simulations require the …

Bringing molecular dynamics simulation data into view

PW Hildebrand, AS Rose, JKS Tiemann - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations monitor time-resolved motions of macromolecules.
While visualization of MD trajectories allows an instant and intuitive understanding of …

Machine learning and data science in soft materials engineering

AL Ferguson - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In many branches of materials science it is now routine to generate data sets of such large
size and dimensionality that conventional methods of analysis fail. Paradigms and tools from …

GPCRmd uncovers the dynamics of the 3D-GPCRome

I Rodríguez-Espigares, M Torrens-Fontanals… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are involved in numerous physiological processes
and are the most frequent targets of approved drugs. The explosion in the number of new …

Protein thermostability engineering

HP Modarres, MR Mofrad, A Sanati-Nezhad - RSC advances, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of enzymes for industrial and biomedical applications is limited to their function at
elevated temperatures. The principles of thermostability engineering need to be …