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  1. Ground-State Destabilization Controls the Selectivity of a Cofactor-Free Decarboxylase
  2. Ground-State Destabilization Controls the Selectivity of a Cofactor-Free Decarboxylase
  3. The N-Terminal Helix-Turn-Helix Motif of Transcription Factors MarA and Rob Drives DNA Recognition
  4. The N-Terminal Helix-Turn-Helix Motif of Transcription Factors MarA and Rob Drives DNA Recognition
  5. Modeling the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Diaryl Sulfate Diesters: A Mechanistic Study
  6. Intervention strategies against COVID-19 and their estimated impact on Swedish healthcare capacity
  7. Manipulating Conformational Dynamics To Repurpose Ancient Proteins for Modern Catalytic Functions
  8. Recent Advances in Understanding Biological GTP Hydrolysis through Molecular Simulation
  9. Short and simple sequences favored the emergence of N-helix phospho-ligand binding sites in the first enzymes
  10. Modeling the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Diaryl Sulfate Diesters: A Mechanistic Study
  11. Modeling the Alkaline Hydrolysis of Diaryl Sulfate Diesters: A Mechanistic Study
  12. Enhancing a de novo enzyme activity by computationally-focused ultra-low-throughput screening
  13. The role of ligand-gated conformational changes in enzyme catalysis
  14. Uncovering the Role of Key Active-Site Side Chains in Catalysis: An Extended Brønsted Relationship for Substrate Deprotonation Catalyzed by Wild-Type and Variants of Triosephosphate Isomerase
  15. GTP Hydrolysis Without an Active Site Base: A Unifying Mechanism for Ras and Related GTPases
  16. Chemical and Biochemical Approaches for the Synthesis of Substituted Dihydroxybutanones and Di- and Tri-Hydroxypentanones
  17. Relative Binding Energies Predict Crystallographic Binding Modes of Ethionamide Booster Lead Compounds
  18. Long Time-Scale Atomistic Simulations of the Structure and Dynamics of Transcription Factor-DNA Recognition
  19. Cryptic genetic variation shapes the adaptive evolutionary potential of enzymes
  20. Structural consequence of the most frequently recurring cancer-associated substitution in DNA polymerase ε
  21. Human Glycerol 3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase: X-ray Crystal Structures That Guide the Interpretation of Mutagenesis Studies
  22. Higher-order epistatic networks underlie the evolutionary fitness landscape of a xenobiotic-degrading enzyme
  23. Loop Motion in Triosephosphate Isomerase Is Not a Simple Open and Shut Case
  24. Enhancing the Steroid Sulfatase Activity of the Arylsulfatase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  25. Stereo- and Regioselectivity in Catalyzed Transformation of a 1,2-Disubstituted Vicinal Diol and the Corresponding Diketone by Wild Type and Laboratory Evolved Alcohol Dehydrogenases
  26. Evolutionary repurposing of a sulfatase: A new Michaelis complex leads to efficient transition state charge offset
  27. Publisher Correction: Evolution of chalcone isomerase from a noncatalytic ancestor
  28. Evolution of chalcone isomerase from a noncatalytic ancestor
  29. Empirical Valence Bond Simulations Suggest a Direct Hydride Transfer Mechanism for Human Diamine Oxidase
  30. Epoxide hydrolysis as a model system for understanding flux through a branched reaction scheme
  31. Role of Ligand-Driven Conformational Changes in Enzyme Catalysis: Modeling the Reactivity of the Catalytic Cage of Triosephosphate Isomerase
  32. Challenges and advances in the computational modeling of biological phosphate hydrolysis
  33. Computer simulations of the catalytic mechanism of wild-type and mutant β-phosphoglucomutase
  34. Similar Active Sites and Mechanisms Do Not Lead to Cross-Promiscuity in Organophosphate Hydrolysis: Implications for Biotherapeutic Engineering
  35. Extending the Nonbonded Cationic Dummy Model to Account for Ion-Induced Dipole Interactions
  36. Shuffling Active Site Substate Populations Affects Catalytic Activity: The Case of Glucose Oxidase
  37. Micelle Maker: An Online Tool for Generating Equilibrated Micelles as Direct Input for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
  38. DNA Polymerase λ Active Site Favors a Mutagenic Mispair between the Enol Form of Deoxyguanosine Triphosphate Substrate and the Keto Form of Thymidine Template: A Free Energy Perturbation Study
  39. Enzyme Architecture: Modeling the Operation of a Hydrophobic Clamp in Catalysis by Triosephosphate Isomerase
  40. Active Site Hydrophobicity and the Convergent Evolution of Paraoxonase Activity in Structurally Divergent Enzymes: The Case of Serum Paraoxonase 1
  41. Simulating the reactions of substituted pyridinio-N-phosphonates with pyridine as a model for biological phosphoryl transfer
  42. Probing the mechanisms for the selectivity and promiscuity of methyl parathion hydrolase
  43. Where are the female science professors? A personal perspective
  44. Promiscuity in the Enzymatic Catalysis of Phosphate and Sulfate Transfer
  45. Laboratory evolved variant R-C1B1 of potato epoxide hydrolase StEH1
  46. Laboratory evolved variant R-C1B1D33E6 of potato epoxide hydrolase StEH1
  47. Laboratory evolved variant R-C1B1D33 of potato epoxide hydrolase StEH1
  48. Promiscuity and electrostatic flexibility in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily
  49. Conserved Motifs in Different Classes of GTPases Dictate their Specific Modes of Catalysis
  50. Linking coupled motions and entropic effects to the catalytic activity of 2-deoxyribose-5-phosphate aldolase (DERA)
  51. Conformational diversity and enantioconvergence in potato epoxide hydrolase 1
  52. Exceptionally large entropy contributions enable the high rates of GTP hydrolysis on the ribosome
  53. structure of an H300N mutant of potato epoxide hydrolase, StEH1
  54. Modeling the mechanisms of biological GTP hydrolysis
  55. Expanding the Catalytic Triad in Epoxide Hydrolases and Related Enzymes
  56. Cooperative Electrostatic Interactions Drive Functional Evolution in the Alkaline Phosphatase Superfamily
  57. Development and Application of a Nonbonded Cu2+ Model That Includes the Jahn–Teller Effect
  58. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Comparative laboratory evolution of ordered and disordered enzymes.
  59. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Site-specific protonation kinetics of acidic side chains in proteins determined by pH-dependent carboxyl (13)C NMR relaxation.
  60. Recent advances in QM/MM free energy calculations using reference potentials
  61. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Structure of the key species in the enzymatic oxidation of methane to methanol.
  62. Catalytic Stimulation by Restrained Active-Site Floppiness—The Case of High Density Lipoprotein-Bound Serum Paraoxonase-1
  63. Theoretical modelling of epigenetically modified DNA sequences
  64. Resolving Apparent Conflicts between Theoretical and Experimental Models of Phosphate Monoester Hydrolysis
  65. The Conformation of a Catalytic Loop Is Central to GTPase Activity on the Ribosome
  66. How valence bond theory can help you understand your (bio)chemical reaction
  67. Understanding thio-effects in simple phosphoryl systems: role of solvent effects and nucleophile charge
  68. Faculty Opinions recommendation of New reactions and products resulting from alternative interactions between the P450 enzyme and redox partners.
  69. Understanding the structural and dynamic consequences of DNA epigenetic modifications: Computational insights into cytosine methylation and hydroxymethylation
  70. Empirical valence bond simulations of the hydride transfer step in the monoamine oxidase B catalyzed metabolism of dopamine
  71. Faculty Opinions recommendation of A new family of iron-dependent halogenases acts on freestanding substrates.
  72. Challenges in computational studies of enzyme structure, function and dynamics
  73. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Direct evidence for a covalent ene adduct intermediate in NAD(P)H-dependent enzymes.
  74. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Physics-based method to validate and repair flaws in protein structures.
  75. Editorial overview: Mechanisms: Chemical and computational probes of biological mechanism
  76. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Membrane-integral pyrophosphatase subfamily capable of translocating both Na+ and H+.
  77. Faculty Opinions recommendation of DNA-mediated signaling by proteins with 4Fe-4S clusters is necessary for genomic integrity.
  78. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Connectivity between catalytic landscapes of the metallo-β-lactamase superfamily.
  79. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Enzyme architecture: deconstruction of the enzyme-activating phosphodianion interactions of orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase.
  80. Force Field Independent Metal Parameters Using a Nonbonded Dummy Model
  81. The Alkaline Hydrolysis of Sulfonate Esters: Challenges in Interpreting Experimental and Theoretical Data
  82. Concerted or Stepwise: How Much Do Free-Energy Landscapes Tell Us about the Mechanisms of Elimination Reactions?
  83. Energetics of activation of GTP hydrolysis on the ribosome
  84. Cellular Polyamines Promote Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Peptide Fibrillation and Modulate the Aggregation Pathways
  85. Why nature really chose phosphate
  86. Modeling catalytic promiscuity in the alkaline phosphatase superfamily
  87. Prechemistry barriers and checkpoints do not contribute to fidelity and catalysis as long as they are not rate limiting
  88. Computational Study of the p K a Values of Potential Catalytic Residues in the Active Site of Monoamine Oxidase B
  89. Computational Protein Engineering: Bridging the Gap between Rational Design and Laboratory Evolution
  90. Base-Catalyzed Dehydration of 3-Substituted Benzene cis -1,2-Dihydrodiols: Stabilization of a Cyclohexadienide Anion Intermediate by Negative Aromatic Hyperconjugation
  91. Catalytic promiscuity inPseudomonas aeruginosaarylsulfatase as an example of chemistry-driven protein evolution
  92. Examining the promiscuous phosphatase activity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa arylsulfatase: A comparison to analogous phosphatases
  93. Theoretical Comparison of p -Nitrophenyl Phosphate and Sulfate Hydrolysis in Aqueous Solution: Implications for Enzyme-Catalyzed Sulfuryl Transfer
  94. Catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase and other enzymes arises from electrostatic preorganization, not conformational motions
  95. Paradynamics: An Effective and Reliable Model for Ab Initio QM/MM Free-Energy Calculations and Related Tasks
  96. Coarse-Grained (Multiscale) Simulations in Studies of Biophysical and Chemical Systems
  97. Multiscale modeling of biological functions
  98. The effect of leaving group on mechanistic preference in phosphate monoester hydrolysis
  99. The empirical valence bond model: theory and applications
  100. On Catalytic Preorganization in Oxyanion Holes: Highlighting the Problems with the Gas-Phase Modeling of Oxyanion Holes and Illustrating the Need for Complete Enzyme Models
  101. Examining the case for the effect of barrier compression on tunneling, vibrationally enhanced catalysis, catalytic entropy and related issues
  102. Reply to Karplus: Conformational dynamics have no role in the chemical step
  103. Ketosteroid isomerase provides further support for the idea that enzymes work by electrostatic preorganization
  104. An analysis of all the relevant facts and arguments indicates that enzyme catalysis does not involve large contributions from nuclear tunneling
  105. Phosphate ester analogues as probes for understanding enzyme catalysed phosphoryl transfer
  106. The EVB as a quantitative tool for formulating simulations and analyzing biological and chemical reactions
  107. On the Energetics of ATP Hydrolysis in Solution
  108. At the dawn of the 21st century: Is dynamics the missing link for understanding enzyme catalysis?
  109. Enzyme millisecond conformational dynamics do not catalyze the chemical step
  110. Correction to A Computational Study of the Hydrolysis of dGTP Analogues with Halomethylene-Modified Leaving Groups in Solution: Implications for the Mechanism of DNA Polymerases
  111. On Unjustifiably Misrepresenting the EVB Approach While Simultaneously Adopting It
  112. A Computational Study of the Hydrolysis of dGTP Analogues with Halomethylene-Modified Leaving Groups in Solution: Implications for the Mechanism of DNA Polymerases
  113. Are Mixed Explicit/Implicit Solvation Models Reliable for Studying Phosphate Hydrolysis? A Comparative Study of Continuum, Explicit and Mixed Solvation Models
  114. Progress in Ab Initio QM/MM Free-Energy Simulations of Electrostatic Energies in Proteins: Accelerated QM/MM Studies of p K a , Redox Reactions and Solvation Free Energies †
  115. Dineopentyl Phosphate Hydrolysis: Evidence for Stepwise Water Attack
  116. Associative Versus Dissociative Mechanisms of Phosphate Monoester Hydrolysis: On the Interpretation of Activation Entropies
  117. On the Interpretation of the Observed Linear Free Energy Relationship in Phosphate Hydrolysis: A Thorough Computational Study of Phosphate Diester Hydrolysis in Solution †
  118. A molecular dynamics study of WPD-loop flexibility in PTP1B
  119. The role of metal ions in phosphate ester hydrolysis
  120. A targeted molecular dynamics study of WPD loop movement in PTP1B