Publication：Science Advances
Authors：Dr. Peiyu Zhang et al.
Date：May 11, 2018
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 pepti…
Publication：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Authors：Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
Date：April 25, 2018
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→…
Publication：Carbohydrate Research
Authors：Dr. Mingjun Yang et al.
Date：March 2, 2018
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 …