GAMESS as a free quantum-mechanical platform for drug research

Y Alexeev, MP Mazanetz, O Ichihara… - Current topics in …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Driven by a steady improvement of computational hardware and significant progress in ab
initio method development, quantum-mechanical approaches can now be applied to large …

Motion planning algorithms for molecular simulations: A survey

I Al-Bluwi, T Siméon, J Cortés - Computer Science Review, 2012 - Elsevier
Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robotics that has motivated research since
more than three decades ago. A large variety of algorithms have been proposed to compute …

Development of Cell-Active N6-Methyladenosine RNA Demethylase FTO Inhibitor

B Chen, F Ye, L Yu, G Jia, X Huang… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The direct nucleic acid repair dioxygenase FTO is an enzyme that demethylates N 6-
methyladenosine (m6A) residues in mRNA in vitro and inside cells. FTO is the first RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Surflex-Dock: Docking benchmarks and real-world application

R Spitzer, AN Jain - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2012 - Springer
Benchmarks for molecular docking have historically focused on re-docking the cognate
ligand of a well-determined protein–ligand complex to measure geometric pose prediction …

Multispectroscopic and molecular modeling approach to investigate the interaction of flavokawain B with human serum albumin

SR Feroz, SB Mohamad, N Bujang… - Journal of agricultural …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Interaction of flavokawain B (FB), a multitherapeutic flavonoid from Alpinia mutica with the
major transport protein, human serum albumin (HSA), was investigated using different …

Structural and functional characterization of the two phosphoinositide binding sites of PROPPINs, a β-propeller protein family

R Krick, RA Busse, A Scacioc… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
β-propellers that bind polyphosphoinositides (PROPPINs), a eukaryotic WD-40 motif-
containing protein family, bind via their predicted β-propeller fold the polyphosphoinositides …

Large-scale prediction of drug–target interactions using protein sequences and drug topological structures

DS Cao, S Liu, QS Xu, HM Lu, JH Huang, QN Hu… - Analytica chimica …, 2012 - Elsevier
The identification of interactions between drugs and target proteins plays a key role in the
process of genomic drug discovery. It is both consuming and costly to determine drug–target …

Ligand-Dependent Conformations and Dynamics of the Serotonin 5-HT2A Receptor Determine Its Activation and Membrane-Driven Oligomerization Properties

J Shan, G Khelashvili, S Mondal… - PLoS computational …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
From computational simulations of a serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR) model complexed
with pharmacologically and structurally diverse ligands we identify different conformational …

Catalytic transitions in the human MDR1 P-glycoprotein drug binding sites

JG Wise - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Multidrug resistance proteins that belong to the ATP-binding cassette family like the human
P-glycoprotein (ABCB1 or Pgp) are responsible for many failed cancer and antiviral …

Steered molecular dynamics-a promising tool for drug design

M Suan Li, B Khanh Mai - Current Bioinformatics, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
About 15 years ago, the steered molecular dynamics (SMD) was used to probe binding of
ligand to biomolecule surfaces but in terms of drug design this approach has only recently …