Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

Computational prediction of protein–protein binding affinities

T Siebenmorgen, M Zacharias - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Protein–protein interactions form central elements of almost all cellular processes.
Knowledge of the structure of protein–protein complexes but also of the binding affinity is of …

Benchmarking of different molecular docking methods for protein-peptide docking

P Agrawal, H Singh, HK Srivastava, S Singh… - BMC …, 2019 - Springer
Background Molecular docking studies on protein-peptide interactions are a challenging
and time-consuming task because peptides are generally more flexible than proteins and …

Extracellular CIRP dysregulates macrophage bacterial phagocytosis in sepsis

M Zhou, M Aziz, HT Yen, G Ma, A Murao… - Cellular & molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
In sepsis, macrophage bacterial phagocytosis is impaired, but the mechanism is not well
elucidated. Extracellular cold-inducible RNA-binding protein (eCIRP) is a damage …

Efficient flexible backbone protein–protein docking for challenging targets

NA Marze, SS Roy Burman, W Sheffler, JJ Gray - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Binding-induced conformational changes challenge current computational
docking algorithms by exponentially increasing the conformational space to be explored. To …

Coupling molecular dynamics and deep learning to mine protein conformational space

MT Degiacomi - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Flexibility is often a key determinant of protein function. To elucidate the link between their
molecular structure and role in an organism, computational techniques such as molecular …

Protein–protein interactions: scoring schemes and binding affinity

MM Gromiha, K Yugandhar, S Jemimah - Current opinion in structural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Reviewed scoring schemes and conformational sampling for protein–protein
complex structure prediction.•Discussed the database for binding affinity of complexes and …

Exosome-mediated eCIRP release from macrophages to induce inflammation in sepsis

A Murao, C Tan, A Jha, P Wang, M Aziz - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Extracellular cold-inducible RNA-binding protein (eCIRP) is an important damage-
associated molecular pattern (DAMP). Despite our understanding of the potentially harmful …

GalaxyRefineComplex: Refinement of protein-protein complex model structures driven by interface repacking

L Heo, H Lee, C Seok - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Protein-protein docking methods have been widely used to gain an atomic-level
understanding of protein interactions. However, docking methods that employ low-resolution …