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ReviewJournal of molecular graphics & modelling2013

Reaching new levels of realism in modeling biological macromolecules in cellular environments.

Michael Feig, Yuji Sugita

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Review in Journal of molecular graphics & modelling, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. PEG-mCherry interactions beyond classical macromolecular crowding.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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  8. Dynamic cluster formation determines viscosity and diffusion in dense protein solutions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  9. Modeling Crowded Environment in Molecular Simulations.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2019
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  17. Challenges in structural approaches to cell modeling.Journal of molecular biology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael FeigDepartment of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 603 Wilson Road, BCH 218, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States; RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, International Medical Device Alliance (IMDA) 6F, 1-6-5 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan. Electronic address: feig@msu.edu.
Yuji Sugita

Funding

Protein structure refinement through effective sampling and scoringR01GM084953 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FEIG, MICHAEL · 2008 to 2017
$2.5M
Multiscale modeling of supramolecular protein-DNA assembliesR01GM092949 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI FEIG, MICHAEL · 2010 to 2013
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM084953NIGMS NIH HHS GM092949NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084953NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM092949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An increasing number of studies are aimed at modeling cellular environments in a comprehensive and realistic fashion. A major challenge in these efforts is how to bridge spatial and temporal scales over many orders of magnitude. Furthermore, there are additional challenges in integrating different aspects ranging from questions about biomolecular stability in crowded environments to the description of reactive processes on cellular scales. In this review, recent studies with models of biomolecules in cellular environments at different levels of detail are discussed in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. In particular, atomistic models, implicit representations of cellular environments, coarse-grained and spheroidal models of biomolecules, as well as the inclusion of reactive processes via reaction-diffusion models are described. Furthermore, strategies for integrating the different models into a comprehensive description of cellular environments are discussed.

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Metabolic Networks and PathwaysModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularAlcohol OxidoreductasesFatty AcidsStreptococcus pyogenesacetoacetyl-CoA reductaseAlcohol OxidoreductasesFatty AcidsBrownian dynamicsCoarse-grainingConfinementCrowdingImplicit solventReaction–diffusion

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PMID24036504
PMCPMC3815448

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