Amyloid oligomers: A joint experimental/computational perspective on Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, type II diabetes, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

PH Nguyen, A Ramamoorthy, BR Sahoo… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein misfolding and aggregation is observed in many amyloidogenic diseases affecting
either the central nervous system or a variety of peripheral tissues. Structural and dynamic …

Recent progress in the science of complex coacervation

CE Sing, SL Perry - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex coacervation is an associative, liquid–liquid phase separation that can occur in
solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecular species, such as proteins, polymers, and …

Improvements to the APBS biomolecular solvation software suite

E Jurrus, D Engel, K Star, K Monson, J Brandi… - Protein …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Adaptive Poisson–Boltzmann Solver (APBS) software was developed to solve
the equations of continuum electrostatics for large biomolecular assemblages that have …

Active particles in complex and crowded environments

C Bechinger, R Di Leonardo, H Löwen… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 escape in vitro from a highly neutralizing COVID-19 convalescent plasma

E Andreano, G Piccini, D Licastro, L Casalino… - BioRxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To investigate the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in the immune population, we co-incubated
authentic virus with a highly neutralizing plasma from a COVID-19 convalescent patient. The …

Micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) for solar photothermal absorption and storage: Fundamentals, recent advances, and future directions

SA Albdour, Z Haddad, OZ Sharaf, A Alazzam… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Building on their dual functionality for solar photothermal absorption and storage,
slurries/dispersions of micro/nano-encapsulated phase-change materials (ePCMs) are …

Non-reciprocal phase transitions

M Fruchart, R Hanai, PB Littlewood, V Vitelli - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Out of equilibrium, a lack of reciprocity is the rule rather than the exception. Non-reciprocity
occurs, for instance, in active matter,,,,–, non-equilibrium systems,–, networks of neurons …

Numerical simulations of particulate suspensions via a discretized Boltzmann equation. Part 1. Theoretical foundation

AJC Ladd - Journal of fluid mechanics, 1994 - cambridge.org
A new and very general technique for simulating solid–fluid suspensions is described; its
most important feature is that the computational cost scales linearly with the number of …