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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2018

Force field development and simulations of intrinsically disordered proteins.

Jing Huang, Alexander D MacKerell

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers.

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84citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

84 citing papers in PubMed, 188 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Accurate conformational ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins using reweighting based on NMR chemical shifts.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  14. Sizes, conformational fluctuations, and SAXS profiles for intrinsically disordered proteins.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jing HuangDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 20 Penn St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, 5635 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.
Alexander D MacKerellDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 20 Penn St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. Electronic address: alex@outerbanks.umaryland.edu.
National Institutes of Health · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

Polarizable Force Field for Proteins and LipidsR01GM072558 · NIGMS · WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIV · PI ROUX, BENOIT · 2005 to 2023
$5.1M
Oligonucleotide Conformational HeterogeneityR01GM051501 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MACKERELL, ALEXANDER D · 2003 to 2018
$3.6M
HALOGEN FREE ENERGY DATABASE FOR RATIONAL DRUG DESIGNR29GM051501 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MACKERELL, ALEXANDER D. · 1996 to 2000
$108k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM051501NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072558NIGMS NIH HHS R29 GM051501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) play important roles in many physiological processes such as signal transduction and transcriptional regulation. Computer simulations that are based on empirical force fields have been increasingly used to understand the biophysics of disordered proteins. In this review, we focus on recent improvement of protein force fields, including polarizable force fields, concerning their accuracy in modeling intrinsically disordered proteins. Some recent benchmarks and applications of these force fields are also overviewed.

Indexed as

Molecular Dynamics SimulationAnimalsBayes TheoremBenchmarkingFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferHumansIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsKineticsMonte Carlo MethodNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProtein BindingProtein FoldingScattering, Small AngleThermodynamicsWaterX-Ray DiffractionIntrinsically Disordered ProteinsWater

Identifiers

PMID29080468
PMCPMC5826789
OpenAlexW2765209572

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