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ReviewProteins2011

The pKa Cooperative: a collaborative effort to advance structure-based calculations of pKa values and electrostatic effects in proteins.

Jens E Nielsen, M R Gunner, Bertrand E García-Moreno

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Review in Proteins, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
60citing papers in PubMed
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Adding the AMBER 14SB Force Field to the Stochastic Titration CpHMD Method.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  3. Comparative Analysis of pACS omega · 2025
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  4. Toxics · 2023
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  5. Comparative Performance of High-Throughput Methods for Protein pJournal of chemical information and modeling · 2023
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  8. Ion channel selectivity through ion-modulated changes of selectivity filter pProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  9. Extending the Stochastic Titration CpHMD to CHARMM36m.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2022
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  10. AMOEBA Force Field Trajectories Improve Predictions of Accurate pThe journal of physical chemistry. B · 2022
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  13. Protein pJournal of chemical theory and computation · 2022
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  15. De novo determination of near-surface electrostatic potentials by NMR.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  17. pJournal of chemical theory and computation · 2020
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  19. Standard state free energies, not pKJournal of computer-aided molecular design · 2020
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  20. Relative stability of the SPhotosynthesis research · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jens E NielsenSchool of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, UCD Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
M R Gunner
Bertrand E García-Moreno
City College of New York · USJohns Hopkins University · USUniversity College Dublin · IE

Funding

TNC FUNCTION IN APOPTOTIC ANTIGEN DRIVEN AUTOIMMUNITYG12RR003060 · NCRR · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI WALLMAN, JOSHUA · 1985 to 2011
$26.1M
Cellular/Molecular Basis of Development: Research CenterG12MD007603 · NIMHD · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI PEZZANO, MARK · 2012 to 2017
$11.5M
Structure-Energy Correlation in ProteinsR01GM061597 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GARCIA-MORENO, BERTRAND · 2001 to 2015
$4.4M
Electrostatic effects of the native state ensembleR01GM073838 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GARCIA-MORENO, BERTRAND · 2009 to 2012
$1.4M
NCRR NIH HHS 5G12 RR03060NCRR NIH HHS G12 RR003060NIGMS NIH HHS GM-061597NIGMS NIH HHS GM-073838NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061597NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM073838NIMHD NIH HHS G12 MD007603
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The pK(a) Cooperative (http://www.pkacoop.org) was organized to advance development of accurate and useful computational methods for structure-based calculation of pK(a) values and electrostatic energies in proteins. The Cooperative brings together laboratories with expertise and interest in theoretical, computational, and experimental studies of protein electrostatics. To improve structure-based energy calculations, it is necessary to better understand the physical character and molecular determinants of electrostatic effects. Thus, the Cooperative intends to foment experimental research into fundamental aspects of proteins that depend on electrostatic interactions. It will maintain a depository for experimental data useful for critical assessment of methods for structure-based electrostatics calculations. To help guide the development of computational methods, the Cooperative will organize blind prediction exercises. As a first step, computational laboratories were invited to reproduce an unpublished set of experimental pK(a) values of acidic and basic residues introduced in the interior of staphylococcal nuclease by site-directed mutagenesis. The pK(a) values of these groups are unique and challenging to simulate owing to the large magnitude of their shifts relative to normal pK(a) values in water. Many computational methods were tested in this first Blind Prediction Challenge and critical assessment exercise. A workshop was organized in the Telluride Science Research Center to objectively assess the performance of many computational methods tested on this one extensive data set. This volume of Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics introduces the pK(a) Cooperative, presents reports submitted by participants in the Blind Prediction Challenge, and highlights some of the problems in structure-based calculations identified during this exercise.

Indexed as

Computer SimulationAcidsHydrogen-Ion ConcentrationMicrococcal NucleaseModels, ChemicalModels, MolecularMutagenesis, Site-DirectedProteinsResearchStatic ElectricityStatistics as TopicAcidsMicrococcal NucleaseProteins

Identifiers

PMID22002877
PMCPMC3375608
OpenAlexW2086455899

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