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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2025

All-atom simulations of biomolecular condensates.

Miloš T Ivanović, Robert B Best

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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 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Miloš T IvanovićDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190A, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland.
Robert B BestLaboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5 Memorial Drive, Bethesda, 20892-0520, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: robert.best2@nih.gov.

Funding

Understanding protein folding, evolution and function via molecular simulationZIADK075104 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI BEST, ROBERT · 2013 to 2025
$13.7M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 DK999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK075104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecular condensates shape a wide spectrum of physiological and pathological processes, yet the molecular mechanisms underlying their formation and activity are still to be fully understood. Molecular simulations can provide valuable insights into the structure and dynamics of such condensates, and coarse-grained simulations have been widely used to characterize phenomena related to their phase equilibrium. All-atom simulations provide a complementary picture-while too expensive to readily study equilibrium between dense and dilute phases, they offer molecular detail on the dense phase that is missing from coarse-grained models, as well as accurate dynamical information. We provide an overview of this nascent application of atomistic simulations to condensates and the insights they have yielded on their structure and dynamics.

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Biomolecular CondensatesMolecular Dynamics Simulation

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PMID40614690
PMCPMC12351546

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