Author(s): Hamidabad MN; Watson NA; Wright LN; Mansbach RA;

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are of growing interest as potential candidates that may offer more resilience against antimicrobial resistance than traditional antibiotic agents. In this article, we perform the first in silico study of the synthetic ß sheet- ...

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Author(s): Mai M; Zazubovich V; Mansbach RA;

Reversible light and thermally induced spectral shifts are universally observed in a wide variety of pigment-protein complexes at temperatures ranging from cryogenic to ambient. In this paper, we employed large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a ...

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Author(s): Nguyen K; Chakraborty S; Mansbach RA; Korber B; Gnanakaran S;

COVID-19 is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It has become a global pandemic and its frequent mutations may pose new challenges for vaccine design. During viral infection, the Spike RBD of SARS-CoV-2 binds ...

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Author(s): Lindsay RJ, Mansbach RA, Gnanakaran S, Shen T

The conformational ensemble of intrinsically disordered proteins, such as a-synuclein, are responsible for their function and malfunction. Misfolding of a-synuclein can lead to neurodegenerative diseases, and the ability to study their conformations and tho ...

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