Literature
Here you can find some suggested readings on the topics covered during the course.
Fundamental concepts in protein physics
- Folding Graciously. Levinthal C, Proc. Mössebaun Spect. Biol. Sys. (1969).
- Studies on Protein Folding, Unfolding and Fluctuations by Computer Simulation. Taketomi H, Ueda Y, and Go N. Int J Pep. Prot. Res. (1974).
- Funnels, Pathways, and the Energy Landscape of Protein Folding: A Synthesis. Bryngelson JD et al. Proteins (1995).
Sampling & enhanced sampling methods
- Essential Dynamics of Proteins. Amadei A, Linssen ABM, Berendsen HJC. Proteins (1993).
- Equilibrium Sampling in Biomolecular Simulations. Zuckerman DM. Annu. Rev. Biophys. (2011).
- Simplified and improved string method for computing the minimum energy paths in barrier-crossing events. Weinian E, Eiquing R, Vanden-Ejinden E. Jour Chem Phys (2007).
- Ratcheted molecular-dynamics simulations […] protein folding. Tiana G and Camilloni C. Jour. Chem. Phys. (2012).
Computational analysis methods
- Quantifying uncertainty and sampling quality in biomolecular simulations. Grossfield A and Zuckerman DM. Annu Rep Comp Chem (2009).
- A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis. Shlens J. ArXiv (2014).
- Principal Component Analysis: A Method for Determining the Essential Dynamics of Proteins. David CC and Jacobs DJ. Methods Mol Biol (2014).
- PyInteraph: A Framework for the Analysis of Interaction Networks in Structural Ensembles of Proteins. Tiberti M et al. Chem. Info and Model. (2014).
- PyInteraph2 and PyInKnife2 to Analyze Networks in Protein Structural Ensembles. V Sora, M Tiberti, L Beltrame, D Dogan, S Mahdi Robbani, J Rubin, and E Papaleo. (2023)
Example applications
- Molecular mechanisms of activation in CDK2. Bešker N, Amadei A, D’Abramo M. Jour. Biomol. Struc. Dyn. (2013).
- Alanine mutation of […] Pantothenate Synthetase […]. Pandey B et al. Nat. Sci. Rep. (2017).
- Effects of Membrane and Biological Target on the […] Properties of Recoverin[…]. Borsatto A, et al, IJMS (2019).