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Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: “Molecular Dynamics”

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biophysics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 1100

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The molecular dynamics simulation of macromolecule motion enables the computational study of proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids, lipids, solvents, ions, and metabolites at temporal and spatial scales, which is not accessible by other methods.

In addition, computational drug design relies on knowing the active sites or allosteric sites of enzymes to find chemical compounds that can stably bind to the amino acids present in them, thus inhibiting or modulating their activity.

The present collection will comprise contributions that discuss the following topics related to the computational simulation of macromolecules (though this list is not exhaustive):

  • Quantum Mechanics;
  • Classical mechanics;
  • Hybrid QM/MM;
  • Molecular dynamics at the atomic level;
  • Steered molecular dynamics;
  • Coarse-graining;
  • Docking(Protein–protein, protein–ligand);
  • The molecular dynamics of protein–ligand interactions;
  • Drug design;
  • Virtual screening.

Manuscripts in which computational simulation is used to propose physically realistic and novel models of biological processes, as well as their potential for use in the study of disease, are welcome.

Dr. Paulino Gómez-Puertas
Prof. Dr. James K. Bashkin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • quantum mechanics
  • classical mechanics
  • hybrid QM/MM
  • molecular dynamics at the atomic level
  • steered molecular dynamics
  • coarse-graining
  • docking(protein–protein, protein–ligand)
  • the molecular dynamics of protein–ligand interactions
  • drug design
  • virtual screening

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STAG2: Computational Analysis of Missense Variants Involved in Disease
by David Ros-Pardo, Paulino Gómez-Puertas and Íñigo Marcos-Alcalde
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25(2), 1280; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25021280 - 20 Jan 2024
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The human STAG2 protein is an essential component of the cohesin complex involved in cellular processes of gene expression, DNA repair, and genomic integrity. Somatic mutations in the STAG2 sequence have been associated with various types of cancer, while congenital variants have been [...] Read more.
The human STAG2 protein is an essential component of the cohesin complex involved in cellular processes of gene expression, DNA repair, and genomic integrity. Somatic mutations in the STAG2 sequence have been associated with various types of cancer, while congenital variants have been linked to developmental disorders such as Mullegama–Klein–Martinez syndrome, X-linked holoprosencephaly-13, and Cornelia de Lange syndrome. In the cohesin complex, the direct interaction of STAG2 with DNA and with NIPBL, RAD21, and CTCF proteins has been described. The function of STAG2 within the complex is still unknown, but it is related to its DNA binding capacity and is modulated by its binding to the other three proteins. Every missense variant described for STAG2 is located in regions involved in one of these interactions. In the present work, we model the structure of 12 missense variants described for STAG2, as well as two other variants of NIPBl and two of RAD21 located at STAG2 interaction zone, and then analyze their behavior through molecular dynamic simulations, comparing them with the same simulation of the wild-type protein. This will allow the effects of variants to be rationalized at the atomic level and provide clues as to how STAG2 functions in the cohesin complex. Full article
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