Journal club

Journal club meetings are on Mondays at 2-3 pm through video conference.

December 2, 2019
Organization of Chromatin by Intrinsic and Regulated Phase Separation

B. A. Gibson, L. K. Doolittle, M. W. G. Schneider, L. E. Jensen, N. Gamarra, L. Henry, D. W. Gerlich, S. Redding, and M. K. Rosen
Cell, 179, 470-484, 2019

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presented by Bercem

November 25, 2019
Improved protein structure prediction using predicted inter-residue orientations

Jianyi Yang, Ivan Anishchenko, Hahnbeom Park, Zhenling Peng, Sergey Ovchinnikov, and David Baker, bioRxiv (2019).

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presented by Lim

November 18, 2019
Walking along chromosomes with super-resolution imaging, contact maps, and integrative modeling.

Nir G, Farabella I, Pérez Estrada C, Ebeling CG, Beliveau BJ, et al. (2018) PLOS Genetics 14(12): e1007872.

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presented by Gilberto

November 4, 2019
In-Cell Protein–Protein Contacts: Transient Interactions in the Crowd

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2019, 10, 18, 5667-5673

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presented by Nawrocki

October 28, 2019
Three archetypical classes of macromolecular regulators of protein liquid–liquid phase separation

A. Ghosh, K. Mazarakos, and H.-X. Zhou
PNAS, 116, 19474-19483, 2019

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presented by Bercem

October 21, 2019
Modified Potential Functions Result in Enhanced Predictions of a Protein Complex by All-Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Confirming a Stepwise Association Process for Native Protein–Protein Interaction

J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2019, 15, 4318-4331

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presented by Nawrocki

October 14, 2019
Ligand-Binding-Site Structure Refinement Using Molecular Dynamics with Restraints Derived from Predicted Binding Site Templates

Guterres, H., Lee, H. S., and Im, W., JCTC (2019).

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presented by Lim

October 14, 2019
Interplay between Short-Range Attraction and Long-Range Repulsion Controls Reentrant Liquid Condensation of Ribonucleoprotein–RNA Complexes

I. Alshareedah, T. Kaur, J. Ngo, H. Seppala, L.-A. D. Kounatse, W. Wang, M. M. Moosa, and P. R. Banerjee.
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 37, 2019

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presented by Bercem

October 7, 2019
Higher Accuracy Achieved in the Simulations of Protein Structure Refinement, Protein Folding, and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Using Polarizable Force Fields

J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2018, 9, 7110-7116

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presented by Nawrocki

September 16, 2019
Boltzmann generators: Sampling equilibrium states of many-body systems with deep learning

Noé F, Olsson S, Köhler J, Wu H (2019) Boltzmann generators: Sampling equilibrium states of many-body systems with deep learning. Science 365(6457):eaaw1147–13.

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presented by Lim

August 5, 2019
Evidence for DNA-mediated nuclear compartmentalization distinct from phase separation

D.T. McSwiggen, A.S. Hansen, S.S. Teves, H. Marie Nelly, Y. Hao, A.B. Heckert, K.K. Umemoto, C. Dugast-Darzacq, R. Tijan and X. Darzacq.
Elife, 8, e47098, 2019

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presented by Bercem

July 8, 2019
Interactions of Water and Alkanes: Modifying Additive Force Fields to Account for Polarization Effects

J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2019 15, 6, 3854-3867

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presented by Nawrocki

June 3, 2019
Sequence determinants of protein phase behavior from a coarse-grained model

G. L. Dignon, W. Zheng, Y. C. Kim, R. B. Best, J. Mittal
PLOS Computational Biology, 14(1): e1005941, 2018

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presented by Bercem

May 20, 2019
QRNAS: software tool for refinement of nucleic acid structures

Stasiewicz, J., Mukherjee, S., Nithin, C., & Bujnicki, J. M. (2019). QRNAS: software tool for refinement of nucleic acid structures. BMC structural biology19(1), 5.

 

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presented by Maciej

April 22, 2019
Intrinsic cleavage of RNA polymerase II adopts a nucleobase-independent mechanism assisted by transcript phosphate

C. K. M. Tse, J. Xu, L. Xu, F. K. Sheong, S. Wang, H. Y. Chow, X. Gao,.X. Li, P. P-H. Cheung, D. Wang, Y. Zhang and X. Huang
Nature Catalysis, 2, 228-235, 2019

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presented by Bercem

April 22, 2019
End-to-End Differentiable Learning of Protein Structure

AlQuraishi M (2019) End-to-End Differentiable Learning of Protein Structure. Cell Syst. doi:10.1016/j.cels.2019.03.006. (Available online Apr. 17, 2019, in Press)

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presented by Lim

April 15, 2019
Stability Effect of Quinary Interactions Reversed by Single Point Mutations

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141 (11), pp 4660–4669

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presented by Nawrocki

March 25, 2019
Investigations of Stacked DNA Base-Pair Steps: Highly Accurate Stacking Interaction Energies, Energy Decomposition, and Many-Body Stacking Effects

Kruse, H., Banas, P., & Šponer, J. (2018). Investigations of stacked DNA base-pair steps: highly accurate stacking interaction energies, energy decomposition, and many-body stacking effects. Journal of chemical theory and computation15(1), 95-115.

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Presented by Maciej

 

April 11, 2016
pKa Values of Titrable Amino Acids at the Water/Membrane Interface

Vitor H. Teixeira, Diogo Vila-Vicosa, Pedro B. P. S. Reis, and Miguel Machuqueiro

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2016, 12 (3), 930-934)

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presented by Nawrocki

March 21, 2016
Recovering Protein Thermal Stability Using All-Atom Hamiltonian Replica-Exchange Simulations in Explicit Solvent

G. Stirnemann and F. Sterpone

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (2015, 11, 5573-5577)

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presented by Nawrocki