Molecular dynamics-driven drug discovery: leaping forward with confidence

A Ganesan, ML Coote, K Barakat - Drug discovery today, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Currently, developing a market-approved drug costs a staggering $2.6 billion.•In
silico methods have become an important strategy for narrowing down on promising lead …

Steered molecular dynamics simulation in rational drug design

PC Do, EH Lee, L Le - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conventional de novo drug design is time consuming, laborious, and resource intensive. In
recent years, emerging in silico approaches have been proven to be critical to accelerate the …

Dynamic docking: a paradigm shift in computational drug discovery

D Gioia, M Bertazzo, M Recanatini, M Masetti, A Cavalli - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is the methodology of choice for studying in silico protein-ligand binding
and for prioritizing compounds to discover new lead candidates. Traditional docking …

Contribution of air-water interface in removing PFAS from drinking water: Adsorption, stability, interaction and machine learning studies

S Yuan, X Wang, Z Jiang, H Zhang, S Yuan - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
As a class of synthetic persistent organic pollutants, contamination of Per-and poly-
fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water has attracted widespread concern. Aeration …

Microsecond MD simulation and multiple-conformation virtual screening to identify potential anti-COVID-19 inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2 main protease

C Selvaraj, U Panwar, DC Dinesh, E Boura… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The recent pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), raised global health and economic concerns …

Effect of co-pigments on anthocyanins of Rhododendron arboreum and insights into interaction mechanism

N Sendri, S Singh, B Sharma, R Purohit, P Bhandari - Food chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The impact of intermolecular copigmentation between five phenolic acids, two flavonoid and
three amino acids with R. arboreum anthocyanins (ANS) and its isolated cyanidin-3-O …

Structural insights into the lead identification of sub-type selective PDE4B inhibitors from plant bioactive molecule analogues

B Sharma, R Purohit - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Phosphodiesterase-4B (PDE4B), a sub-type of PDE4, is highly expressed in the
brain and associated with schizophrenia, neuroinflammation, and cognition. A selective …

A nucleotide-controlled conformational switch modulates the activity of eukaryotic IMP dehydrogenases

RM Buey, D Fernández-Justel, Í Marcos-Alcalde… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is an essential enzyme for
nucleotide metabolism and cell proliferation. Despite IMPDH is the target of drugs with …

Structure‐Based Virtual Screening for Dopamine D2 Receptor Ligands as Potential Antipsychotics

AA Kaczor, AG Silva, MI Loza, P Kolb… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Structure‐based virtual screening using a D2 receptor homology model was
performed to identify dopamine D2 receptor ligands as potential antipsychotics. From …

Applications of computer-aided approaches in the development of hepatitis C antiviral agents

A Ganesan, K Barakat - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global health problem that causes
several chronic life-threatening liver diseases. The numbers of people affected by HCV are …