Approaches to the description and prediction of the binding affinity of small‐molecule ligands to macromolecular receptors

H Gohlke, G Klebe - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… site along with the assumption, based on the lock-and-key principle, that a potent ligand
must exhibit significant structural and chemical complementarity with the binding pocket, two …

Does a more precise chemical description of protein–ligand complexes lead to more accurate prediction of binding affinity?

PJ Ballester, A Schreyer… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
… Here, we investigate the impact of the chemical description of … chemical description of the
protein–ligand complex does not generally lead to a more accurate prediction of binding affinity

Extended connectivity interaction features: improving binding affinity prediction through chemical description

N Sánchez-Cruz, JL Medina-Franco, J Mestres… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… novel description of … chemical description of atoms for the tallying of protein–ligand atom
pairs, such as ECIF, yields to machine-learning SFs with improved predictions of binding affinity, …

Ligand-binding affinity estimates supported by quantum-mechanical methods

U Ryde, P Soderhjelm - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
… of computational chemistry is calculation of accurate free energies for the binding of a small
… We review here approaches involving explicit QM energies to calculate binding affinities, …

On the binding affinity of macromolecular interactions: daring to ask why proteins interact

PL Kastritis, AMJJ Bonvin - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… The main physico-chemical measure that relates to binding affinity is the buried surface area…
affinity, describing the efforts to connect QS to binding affinity. Along with the description of …

Binding affinity via docking: fact and fiction

T Pantsar, A Poso - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
… before a reliable binding affinity prediction through docking is … , the accuracy of binding
affinity predictions is perhaps only as … solvent (water), the poor description of H-bonding and the …

Binding affinity in drug design: experimental and computational techniques

V Kairys, L Baranauskiene… - Expert opinion on …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… that compare affinities of chemically and/or structurally similar compounds [Citation128],
is important to identify correlations and to pinpoint the impact of small chemical changes. …

Development of Quantitative Structure− Binding Affinity Relationship Models Based on Novel Geometrical Chemical Descriptors of the Protein− Ligand Interfaces

S Zhang, A Golbraikh, A Tropsha - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
… combined the atomic EN with the geometrical description of the protein−ligand interface …
chemical descriptors. The descriptors have been applied in QSBR studies of binding energies …

Chemboost: A chemical language based approach for protein–ligand binding affinity prediction

R Özçelik, H Öztürk, A Özgür… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… In the high affinity approach, we considered the chemical words of all ligands with a reported
affinity score, if a protein with no high affinity ligands is encountered. For BDB, the urn:x-…

Relationships between structure and binding affinity of humic substances for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: relevance of molecular descriptors

IV Perminova, NY Grechishcheva… - … Science & Technology, 1999 - ACS Publications
… Partition coefficients for the binding affinities of pyrene, … by the origin revealed that binding
affinities were best predicted by … Establishing structure-PAH binding affinity relationships for …