Collective variable-based enhanced sampling and machine learning

M Chen - The European Physical Journal B, 2021 - Springer
Collective variable-based enhanced sampling methods have been widely used to study
thermodynamic properties of complex systems. Efficiency and accuracy of these enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] Allosteric binding sites of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease: potential targets for broad-spectrum anti-coronavirus agents

L Alzyoud, MA Ghattas, N Atatreh - Drug Design, Development and …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The current pandemic caused by the COVID-19 disease has reached everywhere in the
world and has affected every aspect of our lives. As of the current data, the World Health …

Promising SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitor ligand-binding modes evaluated using LB-PaCS-MD/FMO

K Hengphasatporn, R Harada, P Wilasluck… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Parallel cascade selection molecular dynamics-based ligand binding-path sampling (LB-
PaCS-MD) was combined with fragment molecular orbital (FMO) calculations to reveal the …

High-dimensional fluctuations in liquid water: Combining chemical intuition with unsupervised learning

A Offei-Danso, A Hassanali… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The microscopic description of the local structure of water remains an open challenge. Here,
we adopt an agnostic approach to understanding water's hydrogen bond network using data …

The Repurposed Drugs Suramin and Quinacrine Cooperatively Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro In Vitro

RJ Eberle, DS Olivier, MS Amaral, I Gering, D Willbold… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since the first report of a new pneumonia disease in December 2019 (Wuhan, China) the
WHO reported more than 148 million confirmed cases and 3.1 million losses globally up to …

DADApy: Distance-based analysis of data-manifolds in Python

A Glielmo, I Macocco, D Doimo, M Carli, C Zeni, R Wild… - Patterns, 2022 - cell.com
DADApy is a Python software package for analyzing and characterizing high-dimensional
data manifolds. It provides methods for estimating the intrinsic dimension and the probability …

Key allosteric and active site residues of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro are promising drug targets

K Al Adem, JC Ferreira, S Fadl, M Mustafa… - Biochemical …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
The main protease of SARS-CoV-2, 3-chymotrypsin-like protease (3CLpro), is a prominent
target for antiviral development due to its essential role in the viral life cycle. Research has …

Tuning proton transfer thermodynamics in SARS-CoV-2 main protease: implications for catalysis and inhibitor design

L Zanetti-Polzi, MD Smith, C Chipot… - The journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The catalytic reaction in SARS-CoV-2 main protease is activated by a proton transfer (PT)
from Cys145 to His41. The same PT is likely also required for the covalent binding of some …

Beyond local structures in critical supercooled water through unsupervised learning

ED Donkor, A Offei-Danso, A Rodriguez… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The presence of a second critical point in water has been a topic of intense investigation for
the last few decades. The molecular origins underlying this phenomenon are typically …

Interfacial water many-body effects drive structural dynamics and allosteric interactions in SARS-CoV-2 main protease dimerization interface

D El Ahdab, L Lagardere, TJ Inizan… - The journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Following our previous work (Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 4889− 4907), we study the structural
dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease dimerization interface (apo dimer) by means of …