Water in nanopores and biological channels: a molecular simulation perspective

CI Lynch, S Rao, MSP Sansom - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
This Review explores the dynamic behavior of water within nanopores and biological
channels in lipid bilayer membranes. We focus on molecular simulation studies, alongside …

Systematic comparison of the structural and dynamic properties of commonly used water models for molecular dynamics simulations

SP Kadaoluwa Pathirannahalage… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Water is a unique solvent that is ubiquitous in biology and present in a variety of solutions,
mixtures, and materials settings. It therefore forms the basis for all molecular dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning implicit solvation for molecular dynamics

Y Chen, A Krämer, NE Charron, BE Husic… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Accurate modeling of the solvent environment for biological molecules is crucial for
computational biology and drug design. A popular approach to achieve long simulation time …

General purpose water model can improve atomistic simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins

PS Shabane, S Izadi, AV Onufriev - Journal of chemical theory …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Unconstrained atomistic simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins and peptides (IDP)
remain a challenge: widely used,“general purpose” water models tend to favor overly …

The current impact of water thermodynamics for small-molecule drug discovery

S Geschwindner, J Ulander - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The affinity of drug molecules to their respective molecular targets can be described by the
thermodynamic properties of the molecular interaction. These properties typically reflect the …

Split the charge difference in two! A rule of thumb for adding proper amounts of ions in MD simulations

MR Machado, S Pantano - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the relevance of properly setting ionic concentrations in Molecular Dynamics (MD)
simulations, methods or practical rules to set ionic strength are scarce and rarely …

Transferable Implicit Solvation via Contrastive Learning of Graph Neural Networks

J Airas, X Ding, B Zhang - ACS Central Science, 2023 - ACS Publications
Implicit solvent models are essential for molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules,
striking a balance between computational efficiency and biological realism. Efforts are …

[HTML][HTML] Polarizable and non-polarizable force fields: Protein folding, unfolding, and misfolding

AS Kamenik, PH Handle, F Hofer, U Kahler… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular dynamics simulations are an invaluable tool to characterize the dynamic motions
of proteins in atomistic detail. However, the accuracy of models derived from simulations …

Sampling of the conformational landscape of small proteins with Monte Carlo methods

N Heilmann, M Wolf, M Kozlowska, E Sedghamiz… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Computer simulation provides an increasingly realistic picture of large-scale conformational
change of proteins, but investigations remain fundamentally constrained by the femtosecond …

Computational estimation of microsecond to second atomistic folding times

U Adhikari, B Mostofian, J Copperman… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Despite the development of massively parallel computing hardware including inexpensive
graphics processing units (GPUs), it has remained infeasible to simulate the folding of …