Chapter title |
Molecular dynamics.
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Chapter number | 11 |
Book title |
Computational Toxicology
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, August 2012
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-62703-050-2_11 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-62703-049-6, 978-1-62703-050-2
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Authors |
Xiaolin Cheng, Ivaylo Ivanov |
Editors |
Brad Reisfeld, Arthur N. Mayeno |
Abstract |
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation holds the promise of revealing the mechanisms of biological processes in their ultimate detail. It is carried out by computing the interaction forces acting on each atom and then propagating the velocities and positions of the atoms by numerical integration of Newton's equations of motion. In this review, we present an overview of how the MD simulation can be conducted to address computational toxicity problems. The study cases will cover a standard MD simulation performed to investigate the overall flexibility of a cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme and a set of more advanced MD simulations to examine the barrier to ion conduction in a human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR). |
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