The role of force fields and water models in protein folding and unfolding dynamics

ALM Fischer, A Tichy, J Kokot… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Protein folding is a fascinating, not fully understood phenomenon in biology. Molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations are an invaluable tool to study conformational changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced sampling methods for multiscale simulation of disordered proteins and dynamic interactions

X Gong, Y Zhang, J Chen - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are highly prevalent and play important roles in
biology and human diseases. It is now also recognized that many IDPs remain dynamic …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing molecular design for innovative therapeutic applications through artificial intelligence

A Son, J Park, W Kim, Y Yoon, S Lee, Y Park, H Kim - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
The field of computational protein engineering has been transformed by recent
advancements in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and molecular modeling, enabling …

AIMD-Chig: Exploring the conformational space of a 166-atom protein Chignolin with ab initio molecular dynamics

T Wang, X He, M Li, B Shao, TY Liu - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have revolutionized the modeling of biomolecular
conformations and provided unprecedented insight into molecular interactions. Due to the …

Analyzing molecular dynamics trajectories thermodynamically through artificial intelligence

X Liu, J **ng, H Fu, X Shao, W Cai - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics simulations produce trajectories that correspond to vast amounts of
structure when exploring biochemical processes. Extracting valuable information, eg …

Harnessing deep learning for optimization of lennard-jones parameters for the polarizable classical drude oscillator force field

P Chatterjee, MY Sengul, A Kumar… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The outcomes of computational chemistry and biology research, including drug design, are
significantly influenced by the underlying force field (FF) used in molecular simulations …

Overcoming free-energy barriers with a seamless combination of a biasing force and a collective variable-independent boost potential

H Chen, H Fu, C Chipot, X Shao… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Amid collective-variable (CV)-based importance-sampling algorithms, a hybrid of the
extended adaptive biasing force and the well-tempered metadynamics algorithms (WTM …

Accelerated molecular dynamics for peptide folding: benchmarking different combinations of force fields and explicit solvent models

C Coppa, A Bazzoli, M Barkhordari… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accelerated molecular dynamics (aMD) protocols were assessed on predicting the
secondary structure of eight peptides, of which two are helical, three are β-hairpins, and …

How arginine inhibits substrate‐binding domain 2 elucidated using molecular dynamics simulations

M Kienlein, M Zacharias - Protein Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The substrate‐binding domain 2 (SBD2) is an important part of the bacterial glutamine
(GLN) transporter and mediates binding and delivery of GLN to the transporter translocation …

Free energy landscape of H2A-H2B displacement from nucleosome

H Ishida, H Kono - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Nucleosome reconstitution plays an important role in many cellular functions. As an initial
step, H2A-H2B dimer displacement, which is accompanied by disruption of many of the …