Markov state models: From an art to a science

BE Husic, VS Pande - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Markov state models (MSMs) are a powerful framework for analyzing dynamical systems,
such as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, that have gained widespread use over the …

Synthetic biology for the directed evolution of protein biocatalysts: navigating sequence space intelligently

A Currin, N Swainston, PJ Day, DB Kell - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The amino acid sequence of a protein affects both its structure and its function. Thus, the
ability to modify the sequence, and hence the structure and activity, of individual proteins in …

Design of ordered two-dimensional arrays mediated by noncovalent protein-protein interfaces

S Gonen, F DiMaio, T Gonen, D Baker - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
We describe a general approach to designing two-dimensional (2D) protein arrays mediated
by noncovalent protein-protein interfaces. Protein homo-oligomers are placed into one of the …

[HTML][HTML] Variational cross-validation of slow dynamical modes in molecular kinetics

RT McGibbon, VS Pande - The Journal of chemical physics, 2015‏ - pubs.aip.org
Markov state models are a widely used method for approximating the eigenspectrum of the
molecular dynamics propagator, yielding insight into the long-timescale statistical kinetics …

Modeling molecular kinetics with tICA and the kernel trick

CR Schwantes, VS Pande - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
The allure of a molecular dynamics simulation is that, given a sufficiently accurate force field,
it can provide an atomic-level view of many interesting phenomena in biology. However, the …

The theory of ultra-coarse-graining. 1. General principles

JF Dama, AV Sinitskiy, M McCullagh… - Journal of chemical …, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
Coarse-grained (CG) models provide a computationally efficient means to study
biomolecular and other soft matter processes involving large numbers of atoms correlated …

[HTML][HTML] CONAN: a tool to decode dynamical information from molecular interaction maps

D Mercadante, F Gräter, C Daday - Biophysical journal, 2018‏ - cell.com
The analysis of contacts is a powerful tool to understand biomolecular function in a series of
contexts, from the investigation of dynamical behavior at equilibrium to the study of …

Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules

E Bianchi, B Capone, I Coluzza, L Rovigatti… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and
selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: Markov models for long-timescale biomolecular dynamics

CR Schwantes, RT McGibbon… - The Journal of chemical …, 2014‏ - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations have the potential to provide atomic-level detail and insight
to important questions in chemical physics that cannot be observed in typical experiments …

Free energy landscape of activation in a signalling protein at atomic resolution

F Pontiggia, DV Pachov, MW Clarkson, J Villali… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
The interconversion between inactive and active protein states, traditionally described by
two static structures, is at the heart of signalling. However, how folded states interconvert is …