Browsing Skolnick Research Group Publications by Title
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Ab initio modeling of small proteins by iterative TASSER simulations
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBioMed Central, 2007-05-08)Background: Predicting 3-dimensional protein structures from amino-acid sequences is an important unsolved problem in computational structural biology. The problem becomes relatively easier if close homologous proteins ... -
Ab initio protein structure prediction using chunk-TASSER
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 2007-09)We have developed an ab initio protein structure prediction method called chunk-TASSER that uses ab initio folded supersecondary structure chunks of a given target as well as threading templates for obtaining contact ... -
Application of sparse NMR restraints to large-scale protein structure prediction
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 2004-08)The protein structure prediction algorithm TOUCHSTONEX that uses sparse distance restraints derived from NMR nuclear Overhauser enhancement (NOE) data to predict protein structures at low-to-medium resolution was evaluated ... -
Benchmarking of TASSER_2.0: an improved protein structure prediction algorithm with more accurate predicted contact restraints
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 2008-08)To improve tertiary structure predictions of more difficult targets, the next generation of TASSER, TASSER_2.0, has been developed. TASSER_2.0 incorporates more accurate side-chain contact restraint predictions from a new ... -
Brownian dynamics simulation of macromolecule diffusion in a protocell
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyWorld Scientific Publishing, 2011)The interiors of all living cells are highly crowded with macro molecules, which differs considerably the thermodynamics and kinetics of biological reactions between in vivo and in vitro. For example, the diffusion of green ... -
The collapse transition of semiflexible polymers. A Monte Carlo simulation of a model system
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 1986-09-15)Monte Carlo simulations have been performed on a diamond lattice model of semiflexible polymers for a range of flexibilities and a range of chain lengths from 50 to 800 segments. The model includes both repulsive (excluded ... -
Comparison of three Monte Carlo conformational search strategies for a proteinlike homopolymer model: Folding thermodynamics and identification of low-energy structures
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 2000-09-22)Entropy sampling Monte Carlo, the replica method, and the classical Metropolis scheme were applied in numerical studies of the collapse transition in a simple face-centered cubic lattice polymer. The force field of the ... -
Computational studies of protein folding
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York, 2001-09)The authors describe the state of the art in the field of protein structure prediction. They also introduce Prospector, a newly developed, iterative threading algorithm for protein structure prediction that can also be ... -
Computer design of idealized β-motifs
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 1995-12-15)A lattice model of protein conformation and dynamics is used to explore the requirements for the de novo folding from an arbitrary random coil state of idealized models of four and six-member β-barrels. A number of possible ... -
Computer simulation of the folding of coiled coils
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 1994-02-01)A simple model capable of providing possible folding pathways of two stranded, coiled coil peptides is described and simulated using an off-lattice dynamic Monte Carlo algorithm. Short sequences of very regular repetitive ... -
Computer simulations of de novo designed helical proteins
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 1998-07)In the context of reduced protein models, Monte Carlo simulations of three de novo designed helical proteins (four-member helical bundle) were performed. At low temperatures, for all proteins under consideration, protein-like ... -
DBD-Hunter: a knowledge-based method for the prediction of DNA protein interactions
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyOxford University Press, 2008-05-31)The structures of DNA–protein complexes have illuminated the diversity of DNA–protein binding mechanisms shown by different protein families. This lack of generality could pose a great challenge for predicting DNA–protein ... -
The dependence of all-atom statistical potentials on structural training database
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 2004-03)An accurate statistical energy function that is suitable for the prediction of protein structures of all classes should be independent of the structural database used for energy extraction. Here, two high-resolution, ... -
Determinants of secondary structure of polypeptide chains: Interplay between short range and burial interactions
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 1997-07-15)The effect of tertiary interactions on the observed secondary structure found in the native conformation of globular proteins was examined in the context of a reduced protein model. Short-range interactions are controlled ... -
Development of a Comprehensive Integrated Platform for Translational Innovation in Pain Opioid Abuse Disorder and Overdose
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 2022)Video summary of research project "Development of a Comprehensive Integrated Platform for Translational Innovation in Pain Opioid Abuse Disorder and Overdose" -
Development of a physics-based force field for the scoring and refinement of protein models
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 2008-04)The minimal requirements of a physics-based potential that can refine protein structures are the existence of a correlation between the energy with native similarity and the scoring of the native structure as the lowest ... -
Development of unified statistical potentials describing protein-protein interactions
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 2003-03)A residue-based and a heavy atom-based statistical pair potential are developed for use in assessing the strength of protein-protein interactions. To ensure the quality of the potentials, a nonredundant, high-quality dimer ... -
Discretized model of proteins. I. Monte Carlo study of cooperativity in homopolypeptides
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 1992-12-15)A discretized model of globular proteins is employed in a Monte Carlo study of the helix-coil transition of polyalanine and the collapse transition of polyvaline. The present lattice realization permits real protein crystal ... -
Does reptation describe the dynamics of entangled, finite length polymer systems? A model simulation
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyAmerican Institute of Physics, 1987-02-01)In order to examine the validity of the reptation model of motion in a dense collection of polymers, dynamic Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of polymer chains composed of n beads confined to a diamond lattice were undertaken ... -
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of β-Hairpin Assembly: Insights from Various Simulation Techniques
(Georgia Institute of TechnologyBiophysical Society, 1999-12)Small peptides that might have some features of globular proteins can provide important insights into the protein folding problem. Two simulation methods, Monte Carlo Dynamics (MCD), based on the Metropolis sampling scheme, ...