Pragmatic coarse-graining of proteins: models and applications

L Borges-Araújo, I Patmanidis, AP Singh… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The molecular details involved in the folding, dynamics, organization, and interaction of
proteins with other molecules are often difficult to assess by experimental techniques …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in coarse-grained models for biomolecules and their applications

N Singh, W Li - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics simulations have emerged as a powerful tool to study biological
systems at varied length and timescales. The conventional all-atom molecular dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Theory and practice of coarse-grained molecular dynamics of biologically important systems

A Liwo, C Czaplewski, AK Sieradzan, AG Lipska… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics with coarse-grained models is nowadays extensively used to simulate
biomolecular systems at large time and size scales, compared to those accessible to all …

Modeling protein structures with the coarse-grained UNRES force field in the CASP14 experiment

A Antoniak, I Biskupek, KK Bojarski… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The UNited RESidue (UNRES) force field was tested in the 14th Community Wide
Experiment on the Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of PD-1 derived peptides as inhibitors of PD-1/PD-L1 complex formation for cancer therapy

M Bojko, K Węgrzyn, E Sikorska, M Kocikowski… - Bioorganic …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, many molecules such as monoclonal antibodies, affibodies,
nanobodies, and small compounds have been designed and tested as inhibitors of PD-1/PD …

Insight into the initial stages of the folding process in onconase revealed by UNRES

E Hendrix, S Motta, RF Gahl, Y He - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The unfolded state of proteins presents many challenges to elucidate the structural basis for
biological function. This state is characterized by a large degree of structural heterogeneity …

Simple and Effective Conformational Sampling Strategy for Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Using the UNRES Web Server

T Li, E Hendrix, Y He - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) contain more charged amino acids than folded
proteins, resulting in a lack of hydrophobic core (s) and a tendency to adopt rapidly …

UNRES-Dock—protein–protein and peptide–protein docking by coarse-grained replica-exchange MD simulations

P Krupa, AS Karczyńska, MA Mozolewska… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The majority of the proteins in living organisms occur as homo-or hetero-
multimeric structures. Although there are many tools to predict the structures of single-chain …

Scale-consistent approach to the derivation of coarse-grained force fields for simulating structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of biopolymers

A Liwo, C Czaplewski, AK Sieradzan… - Progress in Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this chapter the scale-consistent approach to the derivation of coarse-grained force fields
developed in our laboratory is presented, in which the effective energy function originates …

Assessment of chemical‐crosslink‐assisted protein structure modeling in CASP13

JE Fajardo, R Shrestha, N Gil, A Belsom… - Proteins: Structure …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the advance of experimental procedures obtaining chemical crosslinking information is
becoming a fast and routine practice. Information on crosslinks can greatly enhance the …