Computer Simulations to Biological Molecules

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Hello you all !

 

We would like to invite you to watch our recent video published in the JPC letters,

 

This Perspective discusses how the relentless growth in computational power has seen increasing applications of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to the study of membrane proteins in realistic membrane environments,

which include explicit membrane lipids, water, and ions.

 

In the case of voltage-gated cation channels, recent computational works have focused on ion conduction and gating mechanisms, along with their regulation by agonist/antagonist ligands.

 

This Perspective highlights recent advances in probing the structure and function of potassium channels and offers a perspective on the challenges likely to arise in making analogous progress in characterizing sodium channels.

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Cristiano Amaral

Ph.D. student at Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil.