学术成果

期刊:The Journal of Chemical Physics
作者:Dr. Huimin Cheng, Dr. Dong Fang, Dr Mingjun Yang et al.
时间:2019年1月31日

Enhanced QM/MM sampling for free energy calculation of chemical reactions: A case study of double proton transfer

J. Chem. Phys. 150, 044111 (2019)

Free energy calculations for chemical reactions with a steep energy barrier require well defined reaction coordinates (RCs). However, when multiple parallel channels exist along selected RC, the application of conventional enhanced samplings is difficult to generate correct sampling within lim

期刊:Catalysis Science & Technology
作者:Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
时间:2018年12月6日

Understanding the entropic effect in chorismate mutase reaction catalyzed by isochorismate-pyruvate lyase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PchB)

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019,9, 957-965

Elucidation of the role of entropy in enzymatic reactions can be utilized in the de novo design of enzymes or protein engineering. Recently, the change in entropy in the enzyme-catalyzed chorismate mutase reaction brought about uncertainty as a result of an experiment using PchB, in w

期刊:Crystal Growth Design
作者:Dr. Peiyu Zhang et al.
时间:2018年11月18日

Harnessing Cloud Architecture for Crystal Structure Prediction Calculations

Cryst. Growth Des. 2018, 18, 11, 6891-6900

Accurate and rapid crystal structure predictions have the potential to transform the development of new materials, particularly in fields with highly complex molecular structures (such as in drug development). In this work we present a novel cloud-computing crystal structure prediction (CSP) platform with the capability of scheduling hundreds of thousands CPU cores and integrating cutting-edge computational chemistry algorithms.…

期刊:Science Advances
作者:Dr. Peiyu Zhang et al.
时间:2018年5月11日

Tuning Peptide Self-Assembly by An In-Tether Chiral Center

Sci. Adv. 2018;4: eaar5907

The self-assembly of peptides into ordered nanostructures is important for understanding both peptide molecular interactions and nanotechnological applications. However, because of the complexity and various self-assembling pathways of peptide molecules, design of self-assembling helical peptid

期刊:Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
作者:Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
时间:2018年4月25日

CHARMM Drude Polarizable Force Field for Glycosidic Linkages Involving Pyranoses and Furanoses

J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2018, 14, 6, 3132-3143

We present an extension of the CHARMM Drude polarizable force field to enable modeling of polysaccharides containing pyranose and furanose monosaccharides. The new force field parameters encompass 1↔2, 1→3, 1→4, and 1→6 pyranose–furanose linkages, 2→1 and 2→6

期刊:Carbohydrate Research
作者:Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
时间:2018年3月2日

Proper Balance of Solvent-Solute and Solute-Solute Interactions in the Treatment of the Diffusion of Glucose Using the Drude Polarizable Force Field

Carbohydrate Research, Volume 457, 2018, pp. 41-50

Motivated by underestimation of the diffusion constant of glucose in aqueous solution at high glucose concentrations we performed additional optimization of the Drude polarizable hexopyranose monosaccharide force field. This indicated aggregation of the glucose at higher concentrations, which i