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Molecular dynamics simulation of an entire cell

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: The ultimate microscope, directed at a cell, would reveal the dynamics of all the cell's components with atomic resolution. In contrast to their real-world counterparts, computational microscopes are currently on the brink of meeting this challenge. In this perspective, we show how an integrative approach can be employed to model an entire cell, the minimal cell, JCVI-syn3A, at full complexity. This step opens the way to interrogate the cell's spatio-temporal evolution with molecular dynamics simulations, an approach that can be extended to other cell types in the near future.

Source: Frontiers in Chemistry

DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1106495

Authors: Jan A. Stevens, Fabian Grünewald, P. A. Marco van Tilburg, Melanie König, Benjamin R. Gilbert, Troy A. Brier, Zane R. Thornburg, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, Siewert J. Marrink

Institutions: University of Groningen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: English

Topic: Protein Structure and Dynamics

Subfield: Molecular Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,295

Funders: National Science Foundation, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council

Awards: The limits to growth: the challenge to dissipate energy, Simulating a growing minimal cell: Integrating experiment and theory, Computational Microscopy of Cells, Collaborative Research: PoLS Student Research Network, PFC: Center for the Physics of Living Cells

OpenAlex ID: W4317104064

FWCI: 11.62

Cites: 82

Cited by: 156

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