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ReviewBiophysical journal2015

Molecular Simulations of Gram-Negative Bacterial Membranes: A Vignette of Some Recent Successes.

Jamie Parkin, Matthieu Chavent, Syma Khalid

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Review in Biophysical journal, 2015. 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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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jamie ParkinSchool of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
Matthieu ChaventDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Syma KhalidSchool of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: s.khalid@soton.ac.uk.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the following review we use recent examples from the literature to discuss progress in the area of atomistic and coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of selected bacterial membranes and proteins, with a particular focus on Gram-negative bacteria. As structural biology continues to provide increasingly high-resolution data on the proteins that reside within these membranes, simulations have an important role to play in linking these data with the dynamical behavior and function of these proteins. In particular, in the last few years there has been significant progress in addressing the issue of biochemical complexity of bacterial membranes such that the heterogeneity of the lipid and protein components of these membranes are now being incorporated into molecular-level models. Thus, in future we can look forward to complementary data from structural biology and molecular simulations combining to provide key details of structure-dynamics-function relationships in bacterial membranes.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationAmino Acid SequenceBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsCell MembraneGram-Negative BacteriaMolecular Sequence DataBacterial Outer Membrane Proteins

Identifiers

PMID26244728
PMCPMC4571018

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