Elucidating solution structures of cyclic peptides using molecular dynamics simulations

J Damjanovic, J Miao, H Huang, YS Lin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein interactions are vital to biological processes, but the shape and size of their
interfaces make them hard to target using small molecules. Cyclic peptides have shown …

Conformational Control of Macrocycles by Remote Structural Modification: Focus Review

SD Appavoo, S Huh, DB Diaz, AK Yudin - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The conformational analysis of macrocycles is a complex and challenging problem. There
are many factors that contribute to this complexity. These include a large number of degrees …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of molecular dynamics simulation in structure prediction of peptides and proteins

H Geng, F Chen, J Ye, F Jiang - Computational and structural …, 2019 - Elsevier
Compared with rapid accumulation of protein sequences from high-throughput DNA
sequencing, obtaining experimental 3D structures of proteins is still much more difficult …

Enhanced sampling without borders: on global biasing functions and how to reweight them

AS Kamenik, SM Linker, S Riniker - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a powerful tool to follow the time evolution of
biomolecular motions in atomistic resolution. However, the high computational demand of …

Peptidic macrocycles-conformational sampling and thermodynamic characterization

AS Kamenik, U Lessel, JE Fuchs, T Fox… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Macrocycles are of considerable interest as highly specific drug candidates, yet they
challenge standard conformer generators with their large number of rotatable bonds and …

Molecular dynamics simulations of cRGD-conjugated PEGylated TiO2 nanoparticles for targeted photodynamic therapy

P Siani, G Frigerio, E Donadoni… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The conjugation of high-affinity cRGD-containing peptides is a promising approach in
nanomedicine to efficiently reduce off-targeting effects and enhance the cellular uptake by …

MacroConf–dataset & workflows to assess cyclic peptide solution structures

D Crusius, JR Schnell, F Cipcigan, PC Biggin - Digital Discovery, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Knowing solution structures of cyclic peptides is essential for predicting pharmacokinetic
properties for drug discovery. Here, we report the MacroConf dataset along with …

Insights into how cyclic peptides switch conformations

SM McHugh, JR Rogers, H Yu… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Cyclic peptides have recently emerged as promising modulators of protein–protein
interactions. However, it is currently highly difficult to predict the structures of cyclic peptides …

Conformational restriction of peptides using dithiol bis-alkylation

L Peraro, TR Siegert, JA Kritzer - Methods in enzymology, 2016 - Elsevier
Macrocyclic peptides are highly promising as inhibitors of protein–protein interactions. While
many bond-forming reactions can be used to make cyclic peptides, most have limitations …

Mechanism of RGD-conjugated nanodevice binding to its target protein integrin α V β 3 by atomistic molecular dynamics and machine learning

G Frigerio, E Donadoni, P Siani, J Vertemara, S Motta… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Active targeting strategies have been proposed to enhance the selective uptake of
nanoparticles (NPs) by diseased cells, and recent experimental findings have proven the …