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ReviewFrontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library2008

Probing protein aggregation using discrete molecular dynamics.

Shantanu Sharma, Feng Ding, Nikolay V Dokholyan

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Review in Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shantanu SharmaDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA.
Feng Ding
Nikolay V Dokholyan
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Protein Misfolding and AggregationR01GM080742 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOKHOLYAN, NIKOLAY · 2007 to 2015
$2.8M
UNC-Chapel Hill Integrated Biomedical Research Training ProgramT90DA022857 · NIDA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI MARZLUFF, WILLIAM F. · 2006 to 2009
$417k
NIDA NIH HHS 5T90DA022857-02NIDA NIH HHS T90 DA022857NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080742NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM080742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the role of biomolecular dynamics in cellular processes leading to human diseases and the ability to rationally manipulate these processes is of fundamental importance in scientific research. The last decade has witnessed significant progress in probing biophysical behavior of proteins. However, we are still limited in understanding how changes in protein dynamics and inter-protein interactions occurring in short length- and time-scales lead to aberrations in their biological function. Bridging this gap in biology probed using computer simulations marks a challenging frontier in computational biology. Here we examine hypothesis-driven simplified protein models in conjunction with discrete molecular dynamics in the study of protein aggregation, implicated in series of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases. Discrete molecular dynamics simulations of simplified protein models have emerged as a powerful methodology with its ability to bridge the gap in time and length scales from protein dynamics to aggregation, and provide an indispensable tool for probing protein aggregation.

Indexed as

Computational BiologyComputer SimulationHumansModels, BiologicalProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProteinsThermodynamicsProteins

Identifiers

PMID18508545
PMCPMC2497428
OpenAlexW2096722261

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