The importance of binding kinetics and drug–target residence time in pharmacology

KE Knockenhauer, RA Copeland - British Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A dominant assumption in pharmacology throughout the 20th century has been that in vivo
target occupancy—and attendant pharmacodynamics—depends on the systemic …

Predicting protein–ligand binding and unbinding kinetics with biased MD simulations and coarse-graining of dynamics: Current state and challenges

S Wolf - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2023 - ACS Publications
The prediction of drug–target binding and unbinding kinetics that occur on time scales
between milliseconds and several hours is a prime challenge for biased molecular …

DPA-2: a large atomic model as a multi-task learner

D Zhang, X Liu, X Zhang, C Zhang, C Cai… - npj Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are catalyzing transformative changes
in atomic modeling, simulation, and design. AI-driven potential energy models have …

A unified framework for machine learning collective variables for enhanced sampling simulations: mlcolvar

L Bonati, E Trizio, A Rizzi, M Parrinello - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Identifying a reduced set of collective variables is critical for understanding atomistic
simulations and accelerating them through enhanced sampling techniques. Recently …

Standard Binding Free-Energy Calculations: How Far Are We from Automation?

H Fu, C Chipot, X Shao, W Cai - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Recent success stories suggest that in silico protein–ligand binding free-energy calculations
are approaching chemical accuracy. However, their widespread application remains limited …

DPA-2: Towards a universal large atomic model for molecular and material simulation

D Zhang, X Liu, X Zhang, C Zhang, C Cai, H Bi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) is driving significant changes in the field
of atomic modeling, simulation, and design. AI-based potential energy models have been …

[HTML][HTML] How exascale computing can shape drug design: A perspective from multiscale QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning-aided …

G Rossetti, D Mandelli - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Molecular simulations are an essential asset in the first steps of drug design campaigns.
However, the requirement of high-throughput limits applications mainly to qualitative …

Simulation of ligand dissociation kinetics from the protein kinase PYK2

J Spiriti, F Noé, CF Wong - Journal of computational chemistry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Early‐stage drug discovery projects often focus on equilibrium binding affinity to the target
alongside selectivity and other pharmaceutical properties. The kinetics of drug binding are …

Perspectives on Ligand/Protein Binding Kinetics Simulations: Force Fields, Machine Learning, Sampling, and User-Friendliness

P Conflitti, S Raniolo, V Limongelli - Journal of chemical theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Computational techniques applied to drug discovery have gained considerable popularity
for their ability to filter potentially active drugs from inactive ones, reducing the time scale …

Thermodynamically optimized machine-learned reaction coordinates for hydrophobic ligand dissociation

ER Beyerle, P Tiwary - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ligand unbinding is mediated by its free energy change, which has intertwined contributions
from both energy and entropy. It is important, but not easy, to quantify their individual …