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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Independent Markov decomposition: Toward modeling kinetics of biomolecular complexes.

Tim Hempel, Mauricio J Del Razo, Christopher T Lee, Bryn C Taylor, Rommie E Amaro, Frank Noé

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Tim HempelDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0073-9353
Mauricio J Del RazoDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Christopher T LeeDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.ORCID 0000-0002-0670-2308
Bryn C TaylorBiomedical Sciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
Rommie E AmaroDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; frank.noe@fu-berlin.de ramaro@ucsd.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9275-9553
Frank NoéDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany; frank.noe@fu-berlin.de ramaro@ucsd.edu.
University of California San Diego · USFreie Universität Berlin · DERice University · US

Funding

National Biomedical Computation Resource - Competitive Revision SupplementP41GM103426 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AMARO, ROMMIE E · 2012 to 2019
$14.0M
A MULTISCALE APPROACH TO TARGET THE ACHILLES HEEL OF P53 CANCER MUTANTS (Equipment Supplement)R01GM132826 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AMARO, ROMMIE E · 2019 to 2022
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103426NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM132826
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To advance the mission of in silico cell biology, modeling the interactions of large and complex biological systems becomes increasingly relevant. The combination of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Markov state models (MSMs) has enabled the construction of simplified models of molecular kinetics on long timescales. Despite its success, this approach is inherently limited by the size of the molecular system. With increasing size of macromolecular complexes, the number of independent or weakly coupled subsystems increases, and the number of global system states increases exponentially, making the sampling of all distinct global states unfeasible. In this work, we present a technique called independent Markov decomposition (IMD) that leverages weak coupling between subsystems to compute a global kinetic model without requiring the sampling of all combinatorial states of subsystems. We give a theoretical basis for IMD and propose an approach for finding and validating such a decomposition. Using empirical few-state MSMs of ion channel models that are well established in electrophysiology, we demonstrate that IMD models can reproduce experimental conductance measurements with a major reduction in sampling compared with a standard MSM approach. We further show how to find the optimal partition of all-atom protein simulations into weakly coupled subunits.

Indexed as

Markov ChainsComputer SimulationKineticsModels, MolecularMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationProteinsProteinsindependent processesion channelsMarkov state modelsmolecular dynamicsoptimal partition

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PMID34321356
PMCPMC8346863
OpenAlexW3186077117

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