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To milliseconds and beyond: challenges in the simulation of protein folding
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Quantitatively accurate all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein folding have long been considered a holy grail of computational biology. Due to the large system sizes and long timescales involved, such a pursuit was for many years computationally intractable. Further, sufficiently accurate forcefields needed to be developed in order to realistically model folding. This decade, however, saw the first reports of folding simulations describing kinetics on the order of milliseconds, placing many proteins firmly within reach of these methods. Progress in sampling and forcefield accuracy, however, presents a new challenge: how to turn huge MD datasets into scientific understanding. Here, we review recent progress in MD simulation techniques and show how the vast datasets generated by such techniques present new challenges for analysis. We critically discuss the state of the art, including reaction coordinate and Markov state model (MSM) methods, and provide a perspective for the future.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lane, T. J., Shukla, D., Beauchamp, K. A., & Pande, V. S.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pande, Vijay S
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Structural Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-02
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 58-65
- ISSN
- 0959-440X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3673555
- OpenAlex
- W2039369142
- Cited by
- 409
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 70 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 36 · 2013: 20
- FWCI
- 2.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Structural Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Simbios NIH Center for Biomedical Computation (GM072970)
- NIH (R01GM62828)
- NSF GRF
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Physical and Theoretical Chemistry › Advanced Physical and Chemical Molecular Interactions
- Keywords
- protein folding, all-atom molecular dynamics, folding kinetics, force fields, reaction coordinate, Markov state models, sampling efficiency
- MeSH terms
- Kinetics, Proteins, Protein Folding, Molecular Dynamics Simulation
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