Use of molecular docking computational tools in drug discovery

F Stanzione, I Giangreco, JC Cole - Progress in medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Molecular docking has become an important component of the drug discovery process.
Since first being developed in the 1980s, advancements in the power of computer hardware …

Chloroplast translation: structural and functional organization, operational control, and regulation

R Zoschke, R Bock - The Plant Cell, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Chloroplast translation is essential for cellular viability and plant development. Its positioning
at the intersection of organellar RNA and protein metabolism makes it a unique point for the …

A task-specific encoding algorithm for RNAs and RNA-associated interactions based on convolutional autoencoder

Y Wang, Z Pan, M Mou, W Xia, H Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNAs play essential roles in diverse physiological and pathological processes by interacting
with other molecules (RNA/protein/compound), and various computational methods are …

How Good Are Current Docking Programs at Nucleic Acid–Ligand Docking? A Comprehensive Evaluation

D Jiang, H Zhao, H Du, Y Deng, Z Wu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nucleic acid (NA)–ligand interactions are of paramount importance in a variety of biological
processes, including cellular reproduction and protein biosynthesis, and therefore, NAs …

RNA–ligand molecular docking: Advances and challenges

Y Zhou, Y Jiang, SJ Chen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With rapid advances in computer algorithms and hardware, fast and accurate virtual
screening has led to a drastic acceleration in selecting potent small molecules as drug …

[HTML][HTML] A renaissance in RNA synthetic biology: new mechanisms, applications and tools for the future

J Chappell, KE Watters, MK Takahashi… - Current opinion in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•We review recent progress in RNA synthetic biology.•New advances in synthetic
RNA regulator design have created high-performing/functioning parts.•New generation of …

Computer-aided design of RNA-targeted small molecules: A growing need in drug discovery

J Manigrasso, M Marcia, M De Vivo - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
In recent years, researchers have identified certain RNAs as druggable targets for small
molecules to treat several human pathologies. However, these regulatory RNAs are …

RLBind: a deep learning method to predict RNA–ligand binding sites

K Wang, R Zhou, Y Wu, M Li - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Identification of RNA–small molecule binding sites plays an essential role in RNA-targeted
drug discovery and development. These small molecules are expected to be leading …

AnnapuRNA: A scoring function for predicting RNA-small molecule binding poses

F Stefaniak, JM Bujnicki - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
RNA is considered as an attractive target for new small molecule drugs. Designing active
compounds can be facilitated by computational modeling. Most of the available tools …

Theory and modeling of RNA structure and interactions with metal ions and small molecules

LZ Sun, D Zhang, SJ Chen - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
In addition to continuous rapid progress in RNA structure determination, probing, and
biophysical studies, the past decade has seen remarkable advances in the development of …