Molecular dynamics simulations of diffusion of small molecules in polymers: Effect of chain length

1990 ◽  
Vol 93 (6) ◽  
pp. 4490-4491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisao Takeuchi
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl M. García-Ruiz ◽  
Andrés F. Marmolejo-Valencia ◽  
Augusto González-Navejas ◽  
Laura Dominguez ◽  
Carlos Amador-Bedolla

2020 ◽  
Vol 153 (12) ◽  
pp. 124107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Krämer ◽  
An Ghysels ◽  
Eric Wang ◽  
Richard M. Venable ◽  
Jeffery B. Klauda ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. O'Hagan ◽  
Susanta Haldar ◽  
Juan C. Morales ◽  
Adrian J. Mulholland ◽  
M. Carmen Galan

Enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations and solution-phase experiments come together to demonstrate the diverse effects of G4-interactive small molecules.


2021 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Ji Yan ◽  
Zhen-Hua Wan ◽  
Feng-Hua Qin ◽  
De-Jun Sun

Abstract A modified multiscale method without constitutive equation is proposed to investigate the microscopic information and macroscopic flow properties of polymeric fluid with the memory effect between parallel plates. In this method, the domain is entirely described by macromodel with isolated molecular dynamics simulations applied to calculate the necessary local stresses. The present method is first verified by the creep-recovery motion and pressure-driven flow, and all results are in excellent agreement with the available numerical solutions in literature. Then, the method is extended to simulate two typical problems of relatively large spatial scale in general beyond the capability of molecular dynamics simulations. In the planar Couette flow, the relationship between macroscopic properties and the time evolution of local molecular information is investigated in detail without long time averaging. All results that are consistent with nonequilibrium molecular dynamics and literature qualitatively or quantitatively demonstrate the validity of present multiscale method in simulating transient viscoelastic flows and the capacity to obtain the polymer information. In the pressure-driven flow, a general monotonically decreasing relationship between the maximum or average velocities and the polymer concentrations has been found regardless of the polymer chain length. Particularly, the reference concentration that satisfies a power law with chain length is closely related to the overlap concentration, and the reference velocity is exactly the relevant velocity of Newtonian fluid with corresponding zero shear rate viscosity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 2591-2604 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Vant ◽  
Shae-Lynn J. Lahey ◽  
Kalyanashis Jana ◽  
Mrinal Shekhar ◽  
Daipayan Sarkar ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iker Ortiz de Luzuriaga ◽  
Xabier Lopez ◽  
Adrià Gil3

G-quadruplexes have raised considerable interest during the past years for the development of therapies against cancer. These noncanonical structures of DNA may be found in telomeres and/or oncogene promoters, and it has been observed that the stabilization of such G-quadruplexes may disturb tumor cell growth. Nevertheless, the mechanisms leading to folding and stabilization of these G-quadruplexes are still not well established, and they are the focus of much current work in this field. In seminal works, stabilization was observed to be produced by cations. However, subsequent studies showed that different kinds of small molecules, from planar and nonplanar organic molecules to square-planar and octahedral metal complexes, may also lead to the stabilization of G-quadruplexes. Thus, the comprehension and rationalization of the interaction of these small molecules with G-quadruplexes are also important topics of current interest in medical applications. To shed light on the questions arising from the literature on the formation of G-quadruplexes, their stabilization, and their interaction with small molecules, synergies between experimental studies and computational works are needed. In this review, we mainly focus on in silico approaches and provide a broad compilation of different leading studies carried out to date by different computational methods. We divide these methods into two main categories: ( a) classical methods, which allow for long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations and the corresponding analysis of dynamical information, and ( b) quantum methods (semiempirical, quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics, and density functional theory methods), which allow for the explicit simulation of the electronic structure of the system but, in general, are not capable of being used in long-timescale molecular dynamics simulations and, therefore, give a more static picture of the relevant processes. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Biophysics, Volume 50 is May 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.


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