Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jun 25, 2024
Dynamic protein structures are crucial for deciphering their diverse biological functions. Two-dimensional infrared (2DIR) spectroscopy stands as an ideal tool for tracing rapid conformational evolutions in proteins. However, linking spectral charact...
As of now, more than 60 years have passed since the first determination of protein structures through crystallography, and a significant portion of protein structures can be predicted by computers. This is due to the groundbreaking enhancement in pro...
AlphaFold2 (AF2) models have had wide impact but mixed success in retrospective ligand recognition. We prospectively docked large libraries against unrefined AF2 models of the σ and serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptors, testing hundreds of new molecules a...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jun 18, 2024
Accurately describing long-range interactions is a significant challenge in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins. High-quality long-range potential is also an important component of the range-separated machine learning force field. This st...
International journal of molecular sciences
Jun 14, 2024
G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are transmembrane proteins that transmit signals from the extracellular environment to the inside of the cells. Their ability to adopt various conformational states, which influence their function, makes them cruci...
International journal of molecular sciences
Jun 6, 2024
Reliable and accurate methods of estimating the accuracy of predicted protein models are vital to understanding their respective utility. Discerning how the quaternary structure conforms can significantly improve our collective understanding of cell ...
Human proteins are crucial players in both health and disease. Understanding their molecular landscape is a central topic in biological research. Here, we present an extensive dataset of predicted protein structures for 42,042 distinct human proteins...
CDK6 plays a key role in the regulation of the cell cycle and is considered a crucial target for cancer therapy. In this work, conformational transitions of CDK6 were identified by using Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD), deep learning (...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jun 3, 2024
Microbial rhodopsins (MRs) are a diverse and abundant family of photoactive membrane proteins that serve as model systems for biophysical techniques. Optogenetics utilizes genetic engineering to insert specialized proteins into specific neurons or br...
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling
May 25, 2024
Elucidating unknown structures of proteins, such as metastable states, is critical in designing therapeutic agents. Protein structure exploration has been performed using advanced computational methods, especially molecular dynamics and Markov chain ...