Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

Exploring and learning the universe of protein allostery using artificial intelligence augmented biophysical and computational approaches

S Agajanian, M Alshahrani, F Bai, P Tao… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Allosteric mechanisms are commonly employed regulatory tools used by proteins to
orchestrate complex biochemical processes and control communications in cells. The …

Accelerating cryptic pocket discovery using AlphaFold

A Meller, S Bhakat, S Solieva… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cryptic pockets, or pockets absent in ligand-free, experimentally determined structures, hold
great potential as drug targets. However, cryptic pocket openings are often beyond the reach …

An efficient path classification algorithm based on variational autoencoder to identify metastable path channels for complex conformational changes

Y Qiu, MS O'Connor, M Xue, B Liu… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conformational changes (ie, dynamic transitions between pairs of conformational states)
play important roles in many chemical and biological processes. Constructing the Markov …

Building insightful, memory-enriched models to capture long-time biochemical processes from short-time simulations

AJ Dominic III, T Sayer, S Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The ability to predict and understand complex molecular motions occurring over diverse
timescales ranging from picoseconds to seconds and even hours in biological systems …

The Arabidopsis AtSWEET13 transporter discriminates sugars by selective facial and positional substrate recognition

AT Weigle, D Shukla - Communications biology, 2024 - nature.com
Transporters are targeted by endogenous metabolites and exogenous molecules to reach
cellular destinations, but it is generally not understood how different substrate classes …

GraphVAMPnets for uncovering slow collective variables of self-assembly dynamics

B Liu, M Xue, Y Qiu, KA Konovalov… - The Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Uncovering slow collective variables (CVs) of self-assembly dynamics is important to
elucidate its numerous kinetic assembly pathways and drive the design of novel structures …

[HTML][HTML] Protein representations: Encoding biological information for machine learning in biocatalysis

D Harding-Larsen, J Funk, NG Madsen… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Enzymes offer a more environmentally friendly and low-impact solution to conventional
chemistry, but they often require additional engineering for their application in industrial …

Memory unlocks the future of biomolecular dynamics: Transformative tools to uncover physical insights accurately and efficiently

AJ Dominic III, S Cao, A Montoya-Castillo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conformational changes underpin function and encode complex biomolecular mechanisms.
Gaining atomic-level detail of how such changes occur has the potential to reveal these …

Toward a benchmark for Markov state models: The folding of HP35

D Nagel, S Sartore, G Stock - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Adopting a 300 μs long MD trajectory of the folding of villin headpiece (HP35) by DE Shaw
Research, we recently constructed a Markov state model (MSM) based on inter-residue …