Elucidating solution structures of cyclic peptides using molecular dynamics simulations

J Damjanovic, J Miao, H Huang, YS Lin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein–protein interactions are vital to biological processes, but the shape and size of their
interfaces make them hard to target using small molecules. Cyclic peptides have shown …

Conformational Control of Macrocycles by Remote Structural Modification: Focus Review

SD Appavoo, S Huh, DB Diaz, AK Yudin - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The conformational analysis of macrocycles is a complex and challenging problem. There
are many factors that contribute to this complexity. These include a large number of degrees …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of molecular dynamics simulation in structure prediction of peptides and proteins

H Geng, F Chen, J Ye, F Jiang - Computational and structural …, 2019 - Elsevier
Compared with rapid accumulation of protein sequences from high-throughput DNA
sequencing, obtaining experimental 3D structures of proteins is still much more difficult …

Steering new drug discovery campaigns: permeability, solubility, and physicochemical properties in the bRo5 chemical space

G Caron, J Kihlberg, G Goetz, E Ratkova… - ACS Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of drug discovery programs concern compounds in the beyond rule of
5 (bRo5) chemical space, such as cyclic peptides, macrocycles, and degraders. Recent …

Structure prediction of cyclic peptides by molecular dynamics+ machine learning

J Miao, ML Descoteaux, YS Lin - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent computational methods have made strides in discovering well-structured cyclic
peptides that preferentially populate a single conformation. However, many successful cyclic …

Conformation and permeability: cyclic hexapeptide diastereomers

S Ono, MR Naylor, CE Townsend… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conformational ensembles of eight cyclic hexapeptide diastereomers in explicit
cyclohexane, chloroform, and water were analyzed by multicanonical molecular dynamics …

Native and Engineered Cyclic Disulfide-Rich Peptides as Drug Leads

TJ Tyler, T Durek, DJ Craik - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bioactive peptides are a highly abundant and diverse group of molecules that exhibit a wide
range of structural and functional variation. Despite their immense therapeutic potential …

Peptidic macrocycles-conformational sampling and thermodynamic characterization

AS Kamenik, U Lessel, JE Fuchs, T Fox… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Macrocycles are of considerable interest as highly specific drug candidates, yet they
challenge standard conformer generators with their large number of rotatable bonds and …

Understanding ring puckering in small molecules and cyclic peptides

L Chan, GR Hutchison, GM Morris - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The geometry of a molecule plays a significant role in determining its physical and chemical
properties. Despite its importance, there are relatively few studies on ring puckering and …

MacroConf–dataset & workflows to assess cyclic peptide solution structures

D Crusius, JR Schnell, F Cipcigan, PC Biggin - Digital Discovery, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Knowing solution structures of cyclic peptides is essential for predicting pharmacokinetic
properties for drug discovery. Here, we report the MacroConf dataset along with …