[HTML][HTML] Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Kinetics from metadynamics: Principles, applications, and outlook

D Ray, M Parrinello - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Metadynamics is a popular enhanced sampling algorithm for computing the free energy
landscape of rare events by using molecular dynamics simulation. Ten years ago, Tiwary …

Decoding the identification mechanism of an SAM-III Riboswitch on ligands through multiple independent Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics simulations

J Chen, Q Zeng, W Wang, H Sun… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
S-Adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-responsive riboswitches play a central role in the regulation
of bacterial gene expression at the level of transcription attenuation or translation inhibition …

Identification of 14 known drugs as inhibitors of the main protease of SARS-CoV-2

MM Ghahremanpour, J Tirado-Rives… - ACS medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A consensus virtual screening protocol has been applied to ca. 2000 approved drugs to
seek inhibitors of the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID …

PyLipID: a python package for analysis of protein–lipid interactions from molecular dynamics simulations

W Song, RA Corey, TB Ansell, CK Cassidy… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Lipids play important modulatory and structural roles for membrane proteins. Molecular
dynamics simulations are frequently used to provide insights into the nature of these protein …

Caver Web 1.0: identification of tunnels and channels in proteins and analysis of ligand transport

J Stourac, O Vavra, P Kokkonen, J Filipovic… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Caver Web 1.0 is a web server for comprehensive analysis of protein tunnels and channels,
and study of the ligands' transport through these transport pathways. Caver Web is the first …

Ligand Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (LiGaMD): Characterization of ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Y Miao, A Bhattarai, J Wang - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calculations of ligand binding free energies and kinetic rates are important for drug design.
However, such tasks have proven challenging in computational chemistry and biophysics …

Rapid, accurate, precise and reproducible ligand–protein binding free energy prediction

S Wan, AP Bhati, SJ Zasada… - Interface …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A central quantity of interest in molecular biology and medicine is the free energy of binding
of a molecule to a target biomacromolecule. Until recently, the accurate prediction of binding …

Thermodynamics and kinetics of drug-target binding by molecular simulation

S Decherchi, A Cavalli - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational studies play an increasingly important role in chemistry and biophysics,
mainly thanks to improvements in hardware and algorithms. In drug discovery and …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics simulation in pharmaceutical research 1: drug delivery

A Bunker, T Róg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we outline the growing role that molecular dynamics simulation is able to play
as a design tool in drug delivery. We cover both the pharmaceutical and computational …