Molecular dynamics: survey of methods for simulating the activity of proteins

SA Adcock, JA McCammon - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
The term molecular mechanics (MM) refers to the use of simple potential-energy functions
(eg, harmonic oscillator or Coulombic potentials) to model molecular systems. Molecular …

Computer-aided antibody design

D Kuroda, H Shirai, MP Jacobson… - … engineering, design & …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent clinical trials using antibodies with low toxicity and high efficiency have raised
expectations for the development of next-generation protein therapeutics. However, the …

Design of a novel globular protein fold with atomic-level accuracy

B Kuhlman, G Dantas, GC Ireton, G Varani… - science, 2003 - science.org
A major challenge of computational protein design is the creation of novel proteins with
arbitrarily chosen three-dimensional structures. Here, we used a general computational …

Advances in protein structure prediction and de novo protein design: A review

CA Floudas, HK Fung, SR McAllister… - Chemical Engineering …, 2006 - Elsevier
This review provides an exposition to the important problems of (i) structure prediction in
protein folding and (ii) de novo protein design. The recent advances in protein folding are …

A large scale test of computational protein design: folding and stability of nine completely redesigned globular proteins

G Dantas, B Kuhlman, D Callender, M Wong… - Journal of molecular …, 2003 - Elsevier
A previously developed computer program for protein design, RosettaDesign, was used to
predict low free energy sequences for nine naturally occurring protein backbones …

Protein Design is NP-hard

NA Pierce, E Winfree - Protein engineering, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Biologists working in the area of computational protein design have never doubted the
seriousness of the algorithmic challenges that face them in attempting in silico sequence …

Automated design of specificity in molecular recognition

JJ Havranek, PB Harbury - nature structural biology, 2003 - nature.com
Specific protein–protein interactions are crucial in signaling networks and for the assembly
of multi-protein complexes, and represent a challenging goal for protein design. Optimizing …

Paradigms for computational nucleic acid design

RM Dirks, M Lin, E Winfree, NA Pierce - Nucleic acids research, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The design of DNA and RNA sequences is critical for many endeavors, from DNA
nanotechnology, to PCR‐based applications, to DNA hybridization arrays. Results in the …

Energy functions for protein design: adjustment with protein–protein complex affinities, models for the unfolded state, and negative design of solubility and specificity

N Pokala, TM Handel - Journal of molecular biology, 2005 - Elsevier
The development of the EGAD program and energy function for protein design is described.
In contrast to most protein design methods, which require several empirical parameters or …

Generalized dead-end elimination algorithms make large-scale protein side-chain structure prediction tractable: implications for protein design and structural …

LL Looger, HW Hellinga - Journal of molecular biology, 2001 - Elsevier
The dead-end elimination (DEE) theorems are powerful tools for the combinatorial
optimization of protein side-chain placement in protein design and homology modeling. In …