https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-021-00207-7
Topical Review - Computational Methods
Tyrosine kinases: complex molecular systems challenging computational methodologies
1
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA
2
Gordon Center for Integrative Science, 929 E 57th Street, Room W323B, 60637, Chicago, IL, USA
Received:
22
April
2021
Accepted:
14
September
2021
Published online:
11
October
2021
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations based on atomic models play an increasingly important role in a wide range of applications in physics, biology, and chemistry. Nonetheless, generating genuine knowledge about biological systems using MD simulations remains challenging. Protein tyrosine kinases are important cellular signaling enzymes that regulate cell growth, proliferation, metabolism, differentiation, and migration. Due to the large conformational changes and long timescales involved in their function, these kinases present particularly challenging problems to modern computational and theoretical frameworks aimed at elucidating the dynamics of complex biomolecular systems. Markov state models have achieved limited success in tackling the broader conformational ensemble and biased methods are often employed to examine specific long timescale events. Recent advances in machine learning continue to push the limitations of current methodologies and provide notable improvements when integrated with the existing frameworks. A broad perspective is drawn from a critical review of recent studies.
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