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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2012

Molecular dynamics simulation in virus research.

Hirotaka Ode, Masaaki Nakashima, Shingo Kitamura, Wataru Sugiura, Hironori Sato

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hirotaka OdeClinical Research Center, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Masaaki Nakashima
Shingo Kitamura
Wataru Sugiura
Hironori Sato
National Hospital Organization · JPNagoya University · JPNational Institute of Infectious Diseases · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus replication in the host proceeds by chains of interactions between viral and host proteins. The interactions are deeply influenced by host immune molecules and anti-viral compounds, as well as by mutations in viral proteins. To understand how these interactions proceed mechanically and how they are influenced by mutations, one needs to know the structures and dynamics of the proteins. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful computational method for delineating motions of proteins at an atomic-scale via theoretical and empirical principles in physical chemistry. Recent advances in the hardware and software for biomolecular simulation have rapidly improved the precision and performance of this technique. Consequently, MD simulation is quickly extending the range of applications in biology, helping to reveal unique features of protein structures that would be hard to obtain by experimental methods alone. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in MD simulations in the study of virus-host interactions and evolution, and present future perspectives on this technique.

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coarse-grained MDMD simulationprotein dynamicsthree-dimensional structureviral protein

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PMID22833741
PMCPMC3400276
OpenAlexW2004450485

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