Title
Assessing the Stability of Biological Fibrils by Molecular-Scale Simulations
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Moreira R.A.
Baker J.L.
Guzman H.V.
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Publisher(s)
Humana Press Inc.
Abstract
The nanomechanical characterization of several biological fibrils that are the result of protein aggregation via molecular dynamics simulation is nowadays feasible, and together with atomic force microscopy experiments has widened our understanding of the forces in the regime of pN-nN and system sizes of about hundreds of nanometers. Several methodologies have been developed to achieve this target, and they range from the atomistic representation via molecular force fields to coarse-grained strategies that provide comparable results with experiments in a systematic way. In this chapter, we discuss several methodologies for the calculation of mechanical parameters, such as the elastic constants of relevant biological systems. They are presented together with details about parameterization and current limitations. Then, we discuss some of the applications of such methodologies for the description of bacterial filament and β-amyloid systems. Finally, the latest lines of development are discussed.
Start page
357
End page
378
Volume
2340
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioinformática Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85124613855
PubMed ID
Source
Methods in Molecular Biology
ISSN of the container
10643745
Sponsor(s)
A.B.P. and R.A.M. acknowledge the financial support from the National Science Centre, Poland, under grant No. 2017/26/D/ NZ1/00466. J.L.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, USA, under grant MCB-1817670. H.V.G acknowledges the core funding support from the Slovenian Research Agency, under grant No. P1-0055.
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