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ArticleFrontiers in chemistry2023

Molecular dynamics simulation of an entire cell.

Jan A Stevens, Fabian Grünewald, P A Marco van Tilburg, Melanie König, Benjamin R Gilbert, Troy A Brier, Zane R Thornburg, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Siewert J Marrink

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Article in Frontiers in chemistry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Jan A StevensMolecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Fabian GrünewaldMolecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
P A Marco van TilburgMolecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Melanie KönigMolecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Benjamin R GilbertDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Champaign, IL, United States.
Troy A BrierDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Champaign, IL, United States.
Zane R ThornburgDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Champaign, IL, United States.
Zaida Luthey-SchultenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Champaign, IL, United States.
Siewert J MarrinkMolecular Dynamics Group, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ultimate microscope, directed at a cell, would reveal the dynamics of all the cell's components with atomic resolution. In contrast to their real-world counterparts, computational microscopes are currently on the brink of meeting this challenge. In this perspective, we show how an integrative approach can be employed to model an entire cell, the minimal cell, JCVI-syn3A, at full complexity. This step opens the way to interrogate the cell's spatio-temporal evolution with molecular dynamics simulations, an approach that can be extended to other cell types in the near future.

Indexed as

coarse grainintegrative modelingJCVI-syn3AMartini force fieldminimal cellpolyply

Identifiers

PMID36742032
PMCPMC9889929

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