End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: strategies and applications in drug design

E Wang, H Sun, J Wang, Z Wang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) and molecular
mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) are arguably very popular methods …

Bioinformatics approaches to discovering food-derived bioactive peptides: Reviews and perspectives

Z Du, J Comer, Y Li - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Food-derived bioactive peptides (FBPs) are gaining interest due to their great potential in
agricultural byproduct valorization and high-activity peptide screening. The introduction of …

The MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods to estimate ligand-binding affinities

S Genheden, U Ryde - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The molecular mechanics energies combined with the Poisson–Boltzmann or
generalized Born and surface area continuum solvation (MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA) methods …

Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 7. Entropy effects on the performance of end-point binding free energy calculation approaches

H Sun, L Duan, F Chen, H Liu, Z Wang, P Pan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Entropy effects play an important role in drug–target interactions, but the entropic
contribution to ligand-binding affinity is often neglected by end-point binding free energy …

Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 4. Accuracies of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methodologies evaluated by various simulation protocols …

H Sun, Y Li, S Tian, L Xu, T Hou - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
By using different evaluation strategies, we systemically evaluated the performance of
Molecular Mechanics/Generalized Born Surface Area (MM/GBSA) and Molecular …

Assessing the performance of MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 3. The impact of force fields and ligand charge models

L Xu, H Sun, Y Li, J Wang, T Hou - The journal of physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Here, we systematically investigated how the force fields and the partial charge models for
ligands affect the ranking performance of the binding free energies predicted by the …

An effective MM/GBSA protocol for absolute binding free energy calculations: A case study on SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and the human ACE2 receptor

N Forouzesh, N Mishra - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The binding free energy calculation of protein–ligand complexes is necessary for research
into virus–host interactions and the relevant applications in drug discovery. However, many …

Structure-Based Identification of Potential Drugs Against FmtA of Staphylococcus aureus: Virtual Screening, Molecular Dynamics, MM-GBSA, and QM/MM

V Dalal, P Dhankhar, V Singh, V Singh… - The protein journal, 2021 - Springer
Staphylococcus aureus is resistant to β-lactam antibiotics and causes several skin diseases
to life-threatening diseases. FmtA is found to be one of the main factors involved in …

In silico modeling and scoring of PROTAC-mediated ternary complex poses

J Liao, X Nie, IC Unarta, SS Ericksen… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are molecules that induce protein degradation
via formation of ternary complexes between an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a target protein. The …

Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Studies on the Catalytic Mechanism of a Novel Esterase (FmtA) of Staphylococcus aureus

V Dalal, D Golemi-Kotra, P Kumar - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
FmtA is a novel esterase that shares the penicillin-binding protein (PBP) core structural
folding but found to hydrolyze the removal of d-Ala from teichoic acids. Molecular docking …