Biological and related applications of pillar [n] arenes

CW Sathiyajith, RR Shaikh, Q Han, Y Zhang… - Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Pillar [n] arenes are a new class of synthetic supramolecular macrocycles streamlined by
their particular pillar-shaped architecture which consists of an electron-rich cavity and two …

Heterosynthons, Solid Form Design and Enhanced Drug Bioavailability

AK Nangia, GR Desiraju - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Starting from a molecular pharmacophore, which is a marker of drug action in medicinal
molecules, we propose that the heterosynthon, a supramolecular synthon between unlike …

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 …

Integrating molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations

LHS Santos, RS Ferreira, ER Caffarena - Docking screens for drug …, 2019 - Springer
Computational methods, applied at the early stages of the drug design process, use current
technology to provide valuable insights into the understanding of chemical systems in a …

Docking and scoring with ICM: the benchmarking results and strategies for improvement

MAC Neves, M Totrov, R Abagyan - Journal of computer-aided molecular …, 2012 - Springer
Flexible docking and scoring using the internal coordinate mechanics software (ICM) was
benchmarked for ligand binding mode prediction against the 85 co-crystal structures in the …

LARMD: integration of bioinformatic resources to profile ligand-driven protein dynamics with a case on the activation of estrogen receptor

JF Yang, F Wang, YZ Chen, GF Hao… - Briefings in …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Protein dynamics is central to all biological processes, including signal transduction, cellular
regulation and biological catalysis. Among them, in-depth exploration of ligand-driven …

Fast and accurate quantum crystallography: from small to large, from light to heavy

LA Malaspina, EK Wieduwilt, J Bergmann… - The journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The coupling of the crystallographic refinement technique Hirshfeld atom refinement (HAR)
with the recently constructed libraries of extremely localized molecular orbitals (ELMOs) …

Induced fit or conformational selection? The role of the semi-closed state in the maltose binding protein

D Bucher, BJ Grant, JA McCammon - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
A full characterization of the thermodynamic forces underlying ligand-associated
conformational changes in proteins is essential for understanding and manipulating diverse …

Flexibility and binding affinity in protein–ligand, protein–protein and multi-component protein interactions: limitations of current computational approaches

P Tuffery, P Derreumaux - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The recognition process between a protein and a partner represents a significant theoretical
challenge. In silico structure-based drug design carried out with nothing more than the three …

Quantum mechanics/extremely localized molecular orbital method: A fully quantum mechanical embedding approach for macromolecules

G Macetti, A Genoni - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019 - ACS Publications
The development of methods for the quantum mechanical study of macromolecules has
always been an important challenge in theoretical chemistry. Nowadays, the techniques …