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 …

Direct methods for computing single‐molecule entropies from molecular simulations

D Suárez, N Díaz - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the actual role of entropic forces in controlling both the stability and activity of
flexible molecules and macromolecules is a theoretical challenge that is gradually gaining …

Modeling intrinsically disordered proteins with bayesian statistics

CK Fisher, A Huang, CM Stultz - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The characterization of intrinsically disordered proteins is challenging because accurate
models of these systems require a description of both their thermally accessible conformers …

Smooth orientation-dependent scoring function for coarse-grained protein quality assessment

M Karasikov, G Pagès, S Grudinin - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein quality assessment (QA) is a crucial element of protein structure
prediction, a fundamental and yet open problem in structural bioinformatics. QA aims at …

Atomistic simulations of 2D bicomponent self-assembly: from molecular recognition to self-healing

CA Palma, P Samorì, M Cecchini - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular two-dimensional engineering epitomizes the design of complex molecular
architectures through recognition events in multicomponent self-assembly. Despite being …

Predicting molecular self-assembly at surfaces: a statistical thermodynamics and modeling approach

S Conti, M Cecchini - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular self-assembly at surfaces and interfaces is a prominent example of self-
organization of matter with outstanding technological applications. The ability to predict the …

DNA facilitates heterodimerization between human transcription factors FoxP1 and FoxP2 by increasing their conformational flexibility

R Coñuecar, I Asela, M Rivera, P Galaz-Davison… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Transcription factors regulate gene expression by binding to DNA. They have disordered
regions and specific DNA-binding domains. Binding to DNA causes structural changes …

Accurate determination of the binding free energy for KcsA-charybdotoxin complex from the potential of mean force calculations with restraints

PC Chen, S Kuyucak - Biophysical Journal, 2011 - cell.com
Free energy calculations for protein-ligand dissociation have been tested and validated for
small ligands (50 atoms or less), but there has been a paucity of studies for larger, peptide …

Accounting for ligand conformational restriction in calculations of protein-ligand binding affinities

C Gao, MS Park, HA Stern - Biophysical journal, 2010 - cell.com
The conformation adopted by a ligand on binding to a receptor may differ from its lowest-
energy conformation in solution. In addition, the bound ligand is more conformationally …

Allosterism and signal transfer in DNA

A Balaceanu, A Pérez, PD Dans… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We analysed the basic mechanisms of signal transmission in DNA and the origins of the
allostery exhibited by systems such as the ternary complex BAMHI–DNA–GRDBD. We found …