Molecular docking: shifting paradigms in drug discovery

L Pinzi, G Rastelli - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is an established in silico structure-based method widely used in drug
discovery. Docking enables the identification of novel compounds of therapeutic interest …

Metadynamics

A Barducci, M Bonomi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a powerful technique for enhancing sampling in molecular dynamics
simulations and reconstructing the free‐energy surface as a function of few selected …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

Biomolecular simulation: a computational microscope for molecular biology

RO Dror, RM Dirks, JP Grossman, H Xu… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Molecular dynamics simulations capture the behavior of biological macromolecules in full
atomic detail, but their computational demands, combined with the challenge of …

Activation pathway of Src kinase reveals intermediate states as targets for drug design

D Shukla, Y Meng, B Roux, VS Pande - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Unregulated activation of Src kinases leads to aberrant signalling, uncontrolled growth and
differentiation of cancerous cells. Reaching a complete mechanistic understanding of large …

Principles and overview of sampling methods for modeling macromolecular structure and dynamics

T Maximova, R Moffatt, B Ma, R Nussinov… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Investigation of macromolecular structure and dynamics is fundamental to understanding
how macromolecules carry out their functions in the cell. Significant advances have been …

[HTML][HTML] Oncogenic mutations counteract intrinsic disorder in the EGFR kinase and promote receptor dimerization

Y Shan, MP Eastwood, X Zhang, ET Kim, A Arkhipov… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The mutation and overexpression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are
associated with the development of a variety of cancers, making this prototypical …

Reconstructing the equilibrium Boltzmann distribution from well‐tempered metadynamics

M Bonomi, A Barducci… - Journal of computational …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Metadynamics is a widely used and successful method for reconstructing the free‐energy
surface of complex systems as a function of a small number of suitably chosen collective …

Large-Scale Conformational Changes and Protein Function: Breaking the in silico Barrier

L Orellana - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale conformational changes are essential to link protein structures with their
function at the cell and organism scale, but have been elusive both experimentally and …

Large conformational changes in proteins: signaling and other functions

BJ Grant, AA Gorfe, JA McCammon - Current opinion in structural biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Guanine and adenine nucleotide triphosphatases, such as Ras proteins and protein
kinases, undergo large conformational changes upon ligand binding in the course of their …