Nonspecific binding—fundamental concepts and consequences for biosensing applications

A Frutiger, A Tanno, S Hwu, RF Tiefenauer… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nature achieves differentiation of specific and nonspecific binding in molecular interactions
through precise control of biomolecules in space and time. Artificial systems such as …

Molecular dynamics simulations and novel drug discovery

X Liu, D Shi, S Zhou, H Liu, H Liu… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can provide not only plentiful dynamical
structural information on biomacromolecules but also a wealth of energetic information …

Hydrogen-bond donors in drug design

PW Kenny - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-bond donors are seen to cause more problems for drug designers than hydrogen-
bond acceptors. Most of the polarity in drug-like compounds comes from hydrogen-bond …

The role of ligand efficiency metrics in drug discovery

AL Hopkins, GM Keserü, PD Leeson… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2014 - nature.com
The judicious application of ligand or binding efficiency metrics, which quantify the
molecular properties required to obtain binding affinity for a drug target, is gaining traction in …

Interaction entropy: A new paradigm for highly efficient and reliable computation of protein–ligand binding free energy

L Duan, X Liu, JZH Zhang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Efficient and reliable calculation of protein–ligand binding free energy is a grand challenge
in computational biology and is of critical importance in drug design and many other …

A medicinal chemist's guide to molecular interactions

C Bissantz, B Kuhn, M Stahl - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Molecular recognition in biological systems relies on the existence of specific attractive
interactions between two partner molecules. Structure-based drug design seeks to identify …

Recent advances in molecular docking for the research and discovery of potential marine drugs

G Chen, AJ Seukep, M Guo - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Marine drugs have long been used and exhibit unique advantages in clinical practices.
Among the marine drugs that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration …

Binding of tolperisone hydrochloride with human serum albumin: effects on the conformation, thermodynamics, and activity of HSA

G Rabbani, EJ Lee, K Ahmad, MH Baig… - Molecular …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Tolperisone hydrochloride (TH) has muscle relaxant activity and has been widely used for
several years in clinical practice to treat pathologically high skeletal muscle tone (spasticity) …

Protein conformational flexibility modulates kinetics and thermodynamics of drug binding

M Amaral, DB Kokh, J Bomke, A Wegener… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based drug design has often been restricted by the rather static picture of
protein–ligand complexes presented by crystal structures, despite the widely accepted …

Privileged structures: efficient chemical “navigators” toward unexplored biologically relevant chemical spaces

J Kim, H Kim, SB Park - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the search for new therapeutic agents for currently incurable diseases, attention has
turned to traditionally “undruggable” targets, and collections of drug-like small molecules …