Modern alchemical free energy methods for drug discovery explained

DM York - ACS Physical Chemistry Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
This Perspective provides a contextual explanation of the current state-of-the-art alchemical
free energy methods and their role in drug discovery as well as highlights select emerging …

Stereoselective amino acid synthesis by synergistic photoredox-pyridoxal radical biocatalysis

L Cheng, D Li, BK Mai, Z Bo, L Cheng, P Liu, Y Yang - Science, 2023 - science.org
Developing synthetically useful enzymatic reactions that are not known in biochemistry and
organic chemistry is an important challenge in biocatalysis. Through the synergistic merger …

BioLiP2: an updated structure database for biologically relevant ligand–protein interactions

C Zhang, X Zhang, PL Freddolino… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With the progress of structural biology, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) has witnessed rapid
accumulation of experimentally solved protein structures. Since many structures are …

A dirigent protein complex directs lignin polymerization and assembly of the root diffusion barrier

YQ Gao, JQ Huang, G Reyt, T Song, A Love… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Functionally similar to the tight junctions present in animal guts, plant roots have evolved a
lignified Casparian strip as an extracellular diffusion barrier in the endodermis to seal the …

DrugRep: an automatic virtual screening server for drug repurposing

J Gan, J Liu, Y Liu, S Chen, W Dai, ZX Xiao… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2023 - nature.com
Computationally identifying new targets for existing drugs has drawn much attention in drug
repurposing due to its advantages over de novo drugs, including low risk, low costs, and …

CIPDB: A biological structure databank for studying cation and π interactions

JF Yang, F Wang, MY Wang, D Wang, ZS Zhou… - Drug Discovery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•CIPDB is a database containing 417,203 classified cation and π pairs.•CIPDB is
a bioinformatic tool for facilitating the analysis of cation and π interactions in …

Nuclear localization of STING1 competes with canonical signaling to activate AHR for commensal and intestinal homeostasis

R Zhang, C Yu, HJ Zeh, H Wang, G Kroemer… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Extensive studies demonstrate the importance of the STING1 (also known as STING) protein
as a signaling hub that coordinates immune and autophagic responses to ectopic DNA in …

Nitrate-driven anaerobic oxidation of ethane and butane by bacteria

M Wu, J Li, CY Lai, AO Leu, S Sun, R Gu… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The short-chain gaseous alkanes (ethane, propane, and butane; SCGAs) are important
components of natural gas, yet their fate in environmental systems is poorly understood …

An integrated approach of network pharmacology, molecular docking, and experimental verification uncovers kaempferol as the effective modulator of HSD17B1 for …

GY Ruan, LX Ye, JS Lin, HY Lin, LR Yu… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Background Endometrial cancer (EC) is one of the most common gynecological
malignancies globally, and the development of innovative, effective drugs against EC …

PETrans: De novo drug design with protein-specific encoding based on transfer learning

X Wang, C Gao, P Han, X Li, W Chen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent years have seen tremendous success in the design of novel drug molecules through
deep generative models. Nevertheless, existing methods only generate drug-like molecules …