Structure, Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Biomolecules

生物分子的结构、动力学和热力学

• 批准号: 2751490
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751490
• 关键词: Structure; Dynamics; Thermodynamics; Biomolecules

This project will analyse and predict the structure, dynamics and thermodynamics of biomolecules using empirical force fields. In particular, a new interface to the UNRES potential will be implemented, benchmarked, and employed to study new systems. UNRES is a coarse-grained model, featuring united atoms, which simplifies the landscape and accelerates sampling. Initial applications will consider structural proteins associated with viral infection, such as the protein E viroporin pentamer from SARS-CoV2. Further work will extend the analysis to the corresponding force field for nucleic acids, to treat RNA and DNA. Protein interactions with nucleic acids can then be addressed. These coarse-grained models should provide a convenient way to treat peptides that aggregate or produce liquid-liquid phase separation to produce membraneless compartments. These capabilities will provide new insight in the aggregation and phase separation phenomena, and help us to understand the propensity of alternative peptide sequences to produce different emergent properties.

该项目将使用经验力场分析和预测生物分子的结构，动力学和热力学。特别是，一个新的接口的UNRES潜力将实施，基准，并用于研究新的系统。UNRES是一个粗粒度的模型，具有联合原子，简化了景观并加速了采样。最初的应用将考虑与病毒感染相关的结构蛋白，例如来自SARS-CoV 2的蛋白E病毒孔蛋白五聚体。进一步的工作将把分析扩展到核酸的相应力场，以处理RNA和DNA。然后可以解决蛋白质与核酸的相互作用。这些粗粒模型应该提供一种方便的方法来处理聚集或产生液-液相分离以产生无膜隔室的肽。这些能力将提供新的洞察力的聚集和相分离现象，并帮助我们了解的倾向，替代肽序列产生不同的紧急性质。