End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: strategies and applications in drug design

E Wang, H Sun, J Wang, Z Wang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) and molecular
mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) are arguably very popular methods …

The MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods to estimate ligand-binding affinities

S Genheden, U Ryde - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The molecular mechanics energies combined with the Poisson–Boltzmann or
generalized Born and surface area continuum solvation (MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA) methods …

Generalized Born implicit solvent models for biomolecules

AV Onufriev, DA Case - Annual review of biophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
It would often be useful in computer simulations to use an implicit description of solvation
effects, instead of explicitly representing the individual solvent molecules. Continuum …

Comparison of implicit and explicit solvent models for the calculation of solvation free energy in organic solvents

J Zhang, H Zhang, T Wu, Q Wang… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Quantitative prediction of physical properties of liquids is important for many applications.
Computational methods based on either explicit or implicit solvent models can be used to …

Practical aspects of free-energy calculations: a review

N Hansen, WF Van Gunsteren - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Free-energy calculations in the framework of classical molecular dynamics simulations are
nowadays used in a wide range of research areas including solvation thermodynamics …

Ligand-binding affinity estimates supported by quantum-mechanical methods

U Ryde, P Soderhjelm - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
One of the largest challenges of computational chemistry is calculation of accurate free
energies for the binding of a small molecule to a biological macromolecule, which has …

[HTML][HTML] Current progress in structure-based rational drug design marks a new mindset in drug discovery

V Lounnas, T Ritschel, J Kelder, R McGuire… - Computational and …, 2013 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift in preclinical drug discovery with structure-
based drug design (SBDD) making a comeback while high-throughput screening (HTS) …

The normal-mode entropy in the MM/GBSA method: effect of system truncation, buffer region, and dielectric constant

S Genheden, O Kuhn, P Mikulskis… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have performed a systematic study of the entropy term in the MM/GBSA (molecular
mechanics combined with generalized Born and surface-area solvation) approach to …

Rapid, accurate, precise, and reliable relative free energy prediction using ensemble based thermodynamic integration

AP Bhati, S Wan, DW Wright… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The accurate prediction of the binding affinities of ligands to proteins is a major goal in drug
discovery and personalized medicine. The time taken to make such predictions is of similar …

[HTML][HTML] A fundamental view of enthalpy–entropy compensation

U Ryde - MedChemComm, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, enthalpy–entropy compensation (EEC) during the association of two
molecules is studied by minimising model systems with molecular mechanics (MM) or …