A consensus view of protein dynamics

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jan 16;104(3):796-801. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605534104. Epub 2007 Jan 10.

Abstract

The dynamics of proteins in aqueous solution has been investigated through a massive approach based on "state of the art" molecular dynamics simulations performed for all protein metafolds using the four most popular force fields (OPLS, CHARMM, AMBER, and GROMOS). A detailed analysis of the massive database of trajectories (>1.5 terabytes of data obtained using approximately 50 years of CPU) allowed us to obtain a robust-consensus picture of protein dynamics in aqueous solution.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Models, Molecular
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Protein Binding
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Folding*
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Proteins / metabolism*

Substances

  • Proteins