Journal of Molecular Biology, ISSN 0022-2836, 05/2019, Volume 431, Issue 10, pp. 1889 - 1919
Biological membranes are fascinating. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who received the Nobel prize in 1906 together with Camillo Golgi for their work on the nervous...
lipid bilayer | molecular visualization | Molecular dynamics | Atomic force microscopy | Membrane lipids | Evolution | Life Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Biophysics
lipid bilayer | molecular visualization | Molecular dynamics | Atomic force microscopy | Membrane lipids | Evolution | Life Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Biophysics
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PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, 03/2013, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. e57990 - 13
The video games industry develops ever more advanced technologies to improve rendering, image quality, ergonomics and user experience of their creations...
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | PLAYERS | INTEGRATION | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | ESCHERICHIA-COLI | SIMULATIONS | BINDING | SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH | GALACTOSIDASE | REVEALS | Computer Graphics | Research Personnel | Signal Transduction | Video Games | Science | Biology | Static Electricity | Video games | Technology application | International economic relations | Electric fields | Visualization (Computers) | Video game industry | Routines | Visualization | 3-D graphics | Extensibility | RNA polymerase | Source code | Electrostatic properties | Computer & video games | Engines | Computer programs | Personal computers | Proteins | Image quality | Industrial development | E coli | Ergonomics | Rendering | Network topologies | Efficiency | Technology | Applications programs | User interfaces | Motion pictures | Electronic & video games | Life Sciences | Quantitative Methods
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | PLAYERS | INTEGRATION | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | ESCHERICHIA-COLI | SIMULATIONS | BINDING | SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH | GALACTOSIDASE | REVEALS | Computer Graphics | Research Personnel | Signal Transduction | Video Games | Science | Biology | Static Electricity | Video games | Technology application | International economic relations | Electric fields | Visualization (Computers) | Video game industry | Routines | Visualization | 3-D graphics | Extensibility | RNA polymerase | Source code | Electrostatic properties | Computer & video games | Engines | Computer programs | Personal computers | Proteins | Image quality | Industrial development | E coli | Ergonomics | Rendering | Network topologies | Efficiency | Technology | Applications programs | User interfaces | Motion pictures | Electronic & video games | Life Sciences | Quantitative Methods
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Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 01/2009, Volume 457, Issue 7225, pp. 111 - 114
Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels from the Cys- loop family mediate fast chemo-electrical transduction(1-3), but the mechanisms of ion permeation and gating...
DOMAIN | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | GATING MECHANISM | AMINO-ACIDS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | BINDING-SITE | IDENTIFICATION | CYS-LOOP | SELECTIVITY | PERMEATION | Ion Channels - metabolism | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Protein Structure, Quaternary | Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions | Models, Molecular | Crystallography, X-Ray | Ligands | Protein Subunits - chemistry | Pectobacterium chrysanthemi - chemistry | Ion Channel Gating | Ion Channels - chemistry | Protein Subunits - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Ion channels | Research | Structure | Cyanobacteria | Membrane proteins | Proteins | Signal transduction | Molecules | Ions | Detergents | Binding sites | Cristallography | Chemical Sciences
DOMAIN | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | GATING MECHANISM | AMINO-ACIDS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | BINDING-SITE | IDENTIFICATION | CYS-LOOP | SELECTIVITY | PERMEATION | Ion Channels - metabolism | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Protein Structure, Quaternary | Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions | Models, Molecular | Crystallography, X-Ray | Ligands | Protein Subunits - chemistry | Pectobacterium chrysanthemi - chemistry | Ion Channel Gating | Ion Channels - chemistry | Protein Subunits - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Ion channels | Research | Structure | Cyanobacteria | Membrane proteins | Proteins | Signal transduction | Molecules | Ions | Detergents | Binding sites | Cristallography | Chemical Sciences
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X-ray structures of general anaesthetics bound to a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 01/2011, Volume 469, Issue 7330, pp. 428 - 431
General anaesthetics have enjoyed long and widespread use but their molecular mechanism of action remains poorly understood. There is good evidence that their...
GLYCINE RECEPTORS | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | ALLOSTERIC TRANSITIONS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | HIGH-RESOLUTION | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | BINDING-SITE | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES | GABA(A) RECEPTORS | IDENTIFICATION | MODULATION | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Protons | Anesthetics, General - metabolism | Isoflurane - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - chemistry | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Isoflurane - chemistry | Mutant Proteins - genetics | Models, Molecular | Crystallography, X-Ray | Mutant Proteins - metabolism | Binding Sites - genetics | Isoflurane - analogs & derivatives | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Propofol - chemistry | Propofol - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - genetics | Mutant Proteins - chemistry | Protein Binding | Anesthetics, General - chemistry | Ligands | Electrophysiological Phenomena | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - metabolism | Proteins | Chemical properties | Anesthetics | Structure | Lipids | Binding sites | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels | Neurons and Cognition | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Neurobiology | Biophysics | Isoflurane | Mutant Proteins | Life Sciences | Anesthetics, General | Cyanobacteria | Biomolecules | Propofol | Binding Sites
GLYCINE RECEPTORS | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | ALLOSTERIC TRANSITIONS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | HIGH-RESOLUTION | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | BINDING-SITE | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES | GABA(A) RECEPTORS | IDENTIFICATION | MODULATION | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Protons | Anesthetics, General - metabolism | Isoflurane - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - chemistry | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Isoflurane - chemistry | Mutant Proteins - genetics | Models, Molecular | Crystallography, X-Ray | Mutant Proteins - metabolism | Binding Sites - genetics | Isoflurane - analogs & derivatives | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Propofol - chemistry | Propofol - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - genetics | Mutant Proteins - chemistry | Protein Binding | Anesthetics, General - chemistry | Ligands | Electrophysiological Phenomena | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - metabolism | Proteins | Chemical properties | Anesthetics | Structure | Lipids | Binding sites | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels | Neurons and Cognition | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Neurobiology | Biophysics | Isoflurane | Mutant Proteins | Life Sciences | Anesthetics, General | Cyanobacteria | Biomolecules | Propofol | Binding Sites
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Current Opinion in Structural Biology, ISSN 0959-440X, 12/2013, Volume 23, Issue 6, pp. 878 - 886
Here, we review recent advances towards the modelling of protein–protein interactions (PPI) at the coarse-grained (CG) level, a technique that is now widely...
SELF-ASSOCIATION | DOCKING | COMPLEXES | COMPUTER-SIMULATION | FORCE-FIELD | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS | MEMBRANE-PROTEINS | HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS | LIPID INTERACTIONS | TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | CELL BIOLOGY | Models, Molecular | Protein Interaction Mapping - methods | Membrane Proteins - metabolism | Membrane Proteins - chemistry | Solubility | Analysis | Models | Protein-protein interactions | Life Sciences | Quantitative Methods
SELF-ASSOCIATION | DOCKING | COMPLEXES | COMPUTER-SIMULATION | FORCE-FIELD | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS | MEMBRANE-PROTEINS | HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS | LIPID INTERACTIONS | TRANSMEMBRANE HELIX | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | CELL BIOLOGY | Models, Molecular | Protein Interaction Mapping - methods | Membrane Proteins - metabolism | Membrane Proteins - chemistry | Solubility | Analysis | Models | Protein-protein interactions | Life Sciences | Quantitative Methods
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Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, ISSN 1545-9993, 06/2012, Volume 19, Issue 6, pp. 642 - 649
Pentameric ligand-gated ion channels mediate signal transduction through conformational transitions between closed-pore and open-pore states. To stabilize a...
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD | DOMAIN | LIGAND-BINDING | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | X-RAY-STRUCTURE | CELL BIOLOGY | GLYCINE RECEPTORS | REFINEMENT | BIOPHYSICS | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | BINDING-SITE | TRANSITIONS | Cyanobacteria - genetics | Protons | Amino Acid Sequence | Allosteric Regulation | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - genetics | Cyanobacteria - metabolism | Ion Channels - genetics | Crystallography, X-Ray | Cysteine - chemistry | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Cysteine - genetics | Ion Channels - metabolism | Bacterial Proteins - metabolism | Protein Conformation | Cysteine - metabolism | Mutation | Ion Channel Gating | Ion Channels - chemistry | Physiological aspects | Bacteria | Cellular signal transduction | Ion channels | Research | Molecular biology | Crystal structure | Cysteine | Ion Channels | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Biophysics | Bacterial Proteins | Life Sciences | Cyanobacteria
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD | DOMAIN | LIGAND-BINDING | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | X-RAY-STRUCTURE | CELL BIOLOGY | GLYCINE RECEPTORS | REFINEMENT | BIOPHYSICS | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | BINDING-SITE | TRANSITIONS | Cyanobacteria - genetics | Protons | Amino Acid Sequence | Allosteric Regulation | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - genetics | Cyanobacteria - metabolism | Ion Channels - genetics | Crystallography, X-Ray | Cysteine - chemistry | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Cysteine - genetics | Ion Channels - metabolism | Bacterial Proteins - metabolism | Protein Conformation | Cysteine - metabolism | Mutation | Ion Channel Gating | Ion Channels - chemistry | Physiological aspects | Bacteria | Cellular signal transduction | Ion channels | Research | Molecular biology | Crystal structure | Cysteine | Ion Channels | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Biophysics | Bacterial Proteins | Life Sciences | Cyanobacteria
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The EMBO Journal, ISSN 0261-4189, 03/2013, Volume 32, Issue 5, pp. 728 - 741
To understand the molecular mechanism of ion permeation in pentameric ligand‐gated ion channels (pLGIC), we solved the structure of an open form of GLIC, a...
crystallography | electrophysiology | molecular dynamics | permeation | ion channels | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | PROTEIN | POTASSIUM CHANNELS | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | X-RAY-STRUCTURE | RESOLUTION | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES | STATE | BROWNIAN DYNAMICS | SELECTIVITY-FILTER | CELL BIOLOGY | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | Threonine - chemistry | Models, Chemical | Sodium - chemistry | Electrophysiology | Crystallography, X-Ray | Sodium - metabolism | Threonine - metabolism | Threonine - genetics | Protein Structure, Quaternary | Water - chemistry | Female | Xenopus laevis - growth & development | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - chemistry | Oocytes - metabolism | Models, Molecular | Serine - genetics | Mutation - genetics | Serine - chemistry | Serine - metabolism | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Animals | Xenopus laevis - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - genetics | Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions | Ligands | Ion Channel Gating | Ions | Molecular biology | Crystals | Life Sciences | Neurons and Cognition
crystallography | electrophysiology | molecular dynamics | permeation | ion channels | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | PROTEIN | POTASSIUM CHANNELS | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | X-RAY-STRUCTURE | RESOLUTION | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES | STATE | BROWNIAN DYNAMICS | SELECTIVITY-FILTER | CELL BIOLOGY | NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | Threonine - chemistry | Models, Chemical | Sodium - chemistry | Electrophysiology | Crystallography, X-Ray | Sodium - metabolism | Threonine - metabolism | Threonine - genetics | Protein Structure, Quaternary | Water - chemistry | Female | Xenopus laevis - growth & development | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - chemistry | Oocytes - metabolism | Models, Molecular | Serine - genetics | Mutation - genetics | Serine - chemistry | Serine - metabolism | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Animals | Xenopus laevis - metabolism | Ligand-Gated Ion Channels - genetics | Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions | Ligands | Ion Channel Gating | Ions | Molecular biology | Crystals | Life Sciences | Neurons and Cognition
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, ISSN 1520-6106, 12/2014, Volume 118, Issue 48, pp. 13800 - 13811
[NiFe]-hydrogenases catalyze the cleavage of molecular hydrogen into protons and electrons and represent promising tools for H2-based technologies such as...
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | ACTIVE-SITE | NICKEL-IRON HYDROGENASE | NIFE HYDROGENASE | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | 4FE-3S CLUSTER | CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL | PROTON TRANSPORT | MEMBRANE-BOUND HYDROGENASE | BROWNIAN DYNAMICS | PROTEIN MECHANICS | Catalytic Domain | Desulfovibrio - enzymology | Hydrogenase - metabolism | Biocatalysis | Oxidation-Reduction | Aquifoliaceae - enzymology | Hydrogenase - chemistry | Static Electricity | Hydrogen - chemistry | Hydrogen - metabolism | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Nickel compounds | Iron compounds | Chemical properties | Hydrogenation | Analysis | Residues | Enzymes | Dynamic tests | Pathways | Dynamic mechanical properties | Dynamics | Desulfovibrio | Oxidation | or physical chemistry | Chemical Sciences | Theoretical and
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | ACTIVE-SITE | NICKEL-IRON HYDROGENASE | NIFE HYDROGENASE | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | 4FE-3S CLUSTER | CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL | PROTON TRANSPORT | MEMBRANE-BOUND HYDROGENASE | BROWNIAN DYNAMICS | PROTEIN MECHANICS | Catalytic Domain | Desulfovibrio - enzymology | Hydrogenase - metabolism | Biocatalysis | Oxidation-Reduction | Aquifoliaceae - enzymology | Hydrogenase - chemistry | Static Electricity | Hydrogen - chemistry | Hydrogen - metabolism | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Nickel compounds | Iron compounds | Chemical properties | Hydrogenation | Analysis | Residues | Enzymes | Dynamic tests | Pathways | Dynamic mechanical properties | Dynamics | Desulfovibrio | Oxidation | or physical chemistry | Chemical Sciences | Theoretical and
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PLoS Computational Biology, ISSN 1553-734X, 03/2018, Volume 14, Issue 3, p. e1005955
The Foldit project is an online 3D jigsaw puzzle in which players are invited to shake and wiggle the 3D structure of proteins to find their most stable...
ROSETTA | BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS | MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY | Educational games | Methods | Crowdsourcing | Studies | Researchers | Designers | Funding | Instructional design | Genomics | Science | Software | Biology | Computer & video games | Life Sciences | Genetics
ROSETTA | BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS | MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY | Educational games | Methods | Crowdsourcing | Studies | Researchers | Designers | Funding | Instructional design | Genomics | Science | Software | Biology | Computer & video games | Life Sciences | Genetics
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 4/2010, Volume 107, Issue 14, pp. 6275 - 6280
Recently discovered bacterial homologues of eukaryotic pentameric ligand-gated ion channels, such as the Gloeobacter violaceus receptor (GLIC), are...
Receptors | Crystals | Molecular dynamics | Ions | Ligand gated ion channels | Agonists | Ion channels | Nicotinic receptors | Crystal structure | Hydrophobic gate | Allosteric transition | Cys-loop receptor family | GATED ION-CHANNEL | DOMAIN | allosteric transition | CYS-LOOP RECEPTOR | MECHANISM | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | X-RAY-STRUCTURE | cys-loop receptor family | STATE | ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | PORE | hydrophobic gate | BINDING | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Receptors, Nicotinic - metabolism | Protein Structure, Secondary | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - chemistry | Cyanobacteria - metabolism | Models, Molecular | Crystallography, X-Ray | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Receptors, Nicotinic - chemistry | Time Factors | Bacterial Proteins - metabolism | Ion Channel Gating | Hydrogen-Ion Concentration | Physiological aspects | Research | Receptors, Nicotinic | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Bacterial Proteins | Life Sciences | Cyanobacteria | Biological Sciences
Receptors | Crystals | Molecular dynamics | Ions | Ligand gated ion channels | Agonists | Ion channels | Nicotinic receptors | Crystal structure | Hydrophobic gate | Allosteric transition | Cys-loop receptor family | GATED ION-CHANNEL | DOMAIN | allosteric transition | CYS-LOOP RECEPTOR | MECHANISM | CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | X-RAY-STRUCTURE | cys-loop receptor family | STATE | ACETYLCHOLINE-RECEPTOR | PORE | hydrophobic gate | BINDING | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Receptors, Nicotinic - metabolism | Protein Structure, Secondary | Cyanobacteria - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - chemistry | Cyanobacteria - metabolism | Models, Molecular | Crystallography, X-Ray | Molecular Dynamics Simulation | Receptors, Nicotinic - chemistry | Time Factors | Bacterial Proteins - metabolism | Ion Channel Gating | Hydrogen-Ion Concentration | Physiological aspects | Research | Receptors, Nicotinic | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology | Bacterial Proteins | Life Sciences | Cyanobacteria | Biological Sciences
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Computer Graphics Forum, ISSN 0167-7055, 12/2017, Volume 36, Issue 8, pp. 178 - 204
Structural properties of molecules are of primary concern in many fields. This report provides a comprehensive overview on techniques that have been developed...
solid | surface | bioinformatics visualization | and object representations | Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modelling—Curve | molecular visualization | taxonomy | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | ENVIRONMENT |
solid | surface | bioinformatics visualization | and object representations | Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modelling—Curve | molecular visualization | taxonomy | MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS | ENVIRONMENT |