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ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2008

Ab initio folding of proteins with all-atom discrete molecular dynamics.

Feng Ding, Douglas Tsao, Huifen Nie, Nikolay V Dokholyan

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 203 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Feng DingDepartment of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Douglas Tsao
Huifen Nie
Nikolay V Dokholyan

Funding

Risk Factors for Onset and Persistence of TMDU01DE017018 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DIATCHENKO, LUDA, FILLINGIM, ROGER B · 2005 to 2016
$35.9M
Protein Misfolding and AggregationR01GM080742 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOKHOLYAN, NIKOLAY · 2007 to 2015
$2.8M
Development of a Novel Class for Opioid DrugsR41DA032293 · NIDA · ALGYNOMICS, INC. · PI DIATCHENKO, LUDA, DOKHOLYAN, NIKOLAY · 2012 to 2013
$657k
NIDA NIH HHS R41 DA032293NIDCR NIH HHS U01 DE017018NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080742NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM080742
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Discrete molecular dynamics (DMD) is a rapid sampling method used in protein folding and aggregation studies. Until now, DMD was used to perform simulations of simplified protein models in conjunction with structure-based force fields. Here, we develop an all-atom protein model and a transferable force field featuring packing, solvation, and environment-dependent hydrogen bond interactions. We performed folding simulations of six small proteins (20-60 residues) with distinct native structures by the replica exchange method. In all cases, native or near-native states were reached in simulations. For three small proteins, multiple folding transitions are observed, and the computationally characterized thermodynamics are in qualitative agreement with experiments. The predictive power of all-atom DMD highlights the importance of environment-dependent hydrogen bond interactions in modeling protein folding. The developed approach can be used for accurate and rapid sampling of conformational spaces of proteins and protein-protein complexes and applied to protein engineering and design of protein-protein interactions.

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Models, MolecularProtein ConformationComputational BiologyComputer SimulationHydrogen BondingMicrofilament ProteinsProtein FoldingProtein Structure, TertiaryMicrofilament Proteinsvillin

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PMID18611374
PMCPMC2533517

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