Protein–ligand interfaces are polarized: discovery of a strong trend for intermolecular hydrogen bonds to favor donors on the protein side with implications for …

S Raschka, AJ Wolf, J Bemister-Buffington… - Journal of computer …, 2018 - Springer
Understanding how proteins encode ligand specificity is fascinating and similar in
importance to deciphering the genetic code. For protein–ligand recognition, the combination …

Hydrogen bonds and salt bridges across protein-protein interfaces.

D Xu, CJ Tsai, R Nussinov - Protein engineering, 1997 - academic.oup.com
To understand further, and to utilize, the interactions across protein-protein interfaces, we
carried out an analysis of the hydrogen bonds and of the salt bridges in a collection of 319 …

Computational approaches to identifying and characterizing protein binding sites for ligand design

S Henrich, OMH Salo‐Ahen, B Huang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Given the three‐dimensional structure of a protein, how can one find the sites where other
molecules might bind to it? Do these sites have the properties necessary for high affinity …

N H… O, O H… O, and C H… O hydrogen bonds in protein–ligand complexes: Strong and weak interactions in molecular recognition

S Sarkhel, GR Desiraju - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The characteristics of N H… O, O H… O, and C H… O hydrogen bonds are examined in
a group of 28 high‐resolution crystal structures of protein–ligand complexes from the Protein …

Strong and weak hydrogen bonds in the protein–ligand interface

SK Panigrahi, GR Desiraju - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The characteristics of N H··· O, O H··· O, and C H··· O hydrogen bonds and other weak
intermolecular interactions are analyzed in a large and diverse group of 251 protein–ligand …

A comparison of successful and failed protein interface designs highlights the challenges of designing buried hydrogen bonds

PB Stranges, B Kuhlman - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The accurate design of new protein–protein interactions is a longstanding goal of
computational protein design. However, most computationally designed interfaces fail to …

Large-scale analysis of hydrogen bond interaction patterns in protein–ligand interfaces

E Nittinger, T Inhester, S Bietz, A Meyder… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Protein–ligand interactions are the fundamental basis for molecular design in
pharmaceutical research, biocatalysis, and agrochemical development. Especially hydrogen …

Strategies to control the binding mode of de novo designed protein interactions

BS Der, B Kuhlman - Current opinion in structural biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many computationally designed protein–protein interactions were reported over
the past two years.•Recent design goals include heterodimers, homodimers …

Knowledge-based scoring functions in drug design: 3. A two-dimensional knowledge-based hydrogen-bonding potential for the prediction of protein–ligand …

M Zheng, B Xiong, C Luo, S Li, X Liu… - Journal of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen bonding is a key contributor to the molecular recognition between ligands and
their host molecules in biological systems. Here we develop a novel orientation-dependent …

Computational design of affinity and specificity at protein–protein interfaces

J Karanicolas, B Kuhlman - Current opinion in structural biology, 2009 - Elsevier
The computer-based design of protein–protein interactions is a rigorous test of our
understanding of molecular recognition and an attractive approach for creating novel tools …