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ArticleNature communications2024

Functional protein dynamics in a crystal.

Eugene Klyshko, Justin Sung-Ho Kim, Lauren McGough, Victoria Valeeva, Ethan Lee, Rama Ranganathan, Sarah Rauscher

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. A snapshot love story: what serial crystallography has done and will do for us.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Eugene Klyshko *Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Justin Sung-Ho Kim *Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Lauren McGoughDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7598-4225
Victoria ValeevaDepartment of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Ethan LeeDepartment of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada.
Rama RanganathanCenter for Physics of Evolving Systems and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5463-8956
Sarah RauscherDepartment of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. sarah.rauscher@utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9860-3237

Funding

Electric Field-stimulated Protein MechanicsP41GM118217 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI RANGANATHAN, RAMA · 2019 to 2021
$5.3M
Data-driven, evolution-based design of proteinsR01GM141697 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI RANGANATHAN, RAMA · 2021 to 2024
$1.3M
Laws of mechanics and function in proteins as evolved molecular machinesF32GM134721 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MCGOUGH, LAUREN · 2019 to 2021
$195k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM134721NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM118217NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM141697
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteins are molecular machines and to understand how they work, we need to understand how they move. New pump-probe time-resolved X-ray diffraction methods open up ways to initiate and observe protein motions with atomistic detail in crystals on biologically relevant timescales. However, practical limitations of these experiments demands parallel development of effective molecular dynamics approaches to accelerate progress and extract meaning. Here, we establish robust and accurate methods for simulating dynamics in protein crystals, a nontrivial process requiring careful attention to equilibration, environmental composition, and choice of force fields. With more than seven milliseconds of sampling of a single chain, we identify critical factors controlling agreement between simulation and experiments and show that simulated motions recapitulate ligand-induced conformational changes. This work enables a virtuous cycle between simulation and experiments for visualizing and understanding the basic functional motions of proteins.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProteinsProtein ConformationX-Ray DiffractionProteins

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PMID38622111
PMCPMC11018856

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