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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2025

Simulating biomolecules for physiological timescales.

Paul C Whitford, José N Onuchic

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2025. 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
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Probabilistic Forecasting for Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2026
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  5. Ribosomal Protein bL27 Protects Translating Ribosomes from tmRNA-SmpB.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  7. Getting gene expression "just right".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Paul C WhitfordCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Physics, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: p.whitford@neu.edu.
José N OnuchicCenter for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. Electronic address: jonuchic@rice.edu.

Funding

Elucidating the mechanisms that enable translation in bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomesR35GM153502 · NIGMS · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI Paul Charles Whitford · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in structural biology are providing many opportunities to simulate complex conformational motions in large-scale assemblies. While some models are limited by computational resources, all-atom and coarse-grained structure-based models have been particularly effective at elucidating mechanistic, energetic, and kinetic properties of collective rearrangements. Here, we highlight recent examples where structure-based models (e.g. "SMOG" models) have provided insights into long-timescale dynamics of large-scale processes. These models are sufficient to predict all structural characteristics of the energy landscape, where the use of explicit-solvent simulations has allowed for precise calibration of energetics and kinetics. Together, long-timescale simulations of complex assemblies, such as viral fusion proteins or the ribosome, are revealing how a balance of energetics and structural disorder drives biological and disease processes.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProteinsKineticsModels, MolecularThermodynamicsProteins

Identifiers

PMID40215701
PMCPMC12997101

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