About the Talk
Presenter
Asst. Prof. Şebnem Eşsiz, Kadir Has University
Abstract
This talk covers homology modelling and coarse-grained molecular dynamics studies, and the difficulties inherited from protein structure prediction techniques when applied to ligand-gated ion channels, alongside enhanced MD simulations and normal mode analysis.
The accuracy of comparative models derived from homologous proteins in the low sequence similarity range is limited substantially by inaccuracies in the alignment. Despite advances in alignment methods, accuracy remains challenging. The talk covers iterative approaches of model building and model assessment alongside standard modelling techniques, with molecular dynamics studies of the NMDA tetrameric and nicotinic acetylcholine pentameric ion channel proteins used to show the current state of all-atom MD research.
Date: April 15th, 2019 – 17:00 (Istanbul)