Methods and applications of in silico aptamer design and modeling

AA Buglak, AV Samokhvalov, AV Zherdev… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are nucleic acid analogues of antibodies with high affinity to different targets, such
as cells, viruses, proteins, inorganic materials, and coenzymes. Empirical approaches allow …

Collagen interactions: Drug design and delivery

B An, YS Lin, B Brodsky - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Collagen is a major component in a wide range of drug delivery systems and biomaterial
applications. Its basic physical and structural properties, together with its low …

AlphaFold2: a role for disordered protein/region prediction?

CJ Wilson, WY Choy, M Karttunen - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of AlphaFold2 marked a paradigm-shift in the structural biology
community. Herein, we assess the ability of AlphaFold2 to predict disordered regions …

Computational determination of potential inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease

ST Ngo, N Quynh Anh Pham, L Thi Le… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has infected several million people and caused
thousands of deaths worldwide since December 2019. As the disease is spreading rapidly …

Benchmark of popular free energy approaches revealing the inhibitors binding to SARS-CoV-2 Mpro

ST Ngo, NM Tam, MQ Pham… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed millions of people worldwide since its outbreak in
December 2019. The pandemic is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus whose main protease …

A molecular mechanism for transthyretin amyloidogenesis

AW Yee, M Aldeghi, MP Blakeley, A Ostermann… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Human transthyretin (TTR) is implicated in several fatal forms of amyloidosis. Many
mutations of TTR have been identified; most of these are pathogenic, but some offer …

[HTML][HTML] D3Targets-2019-nCoV: a webserver for predicting drug targets and for multi-target and multi-site based virtual screening against COVID-19

Y Shi, X Zhang, K Mu, C Peng, Z Zhu, X Wang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
A highly effective medicine is urgently required to cure coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19). For the purpose, we developed a molecular docking based webserver, namely …

Evaluation of Methods for the Calculation of the pKa of Cysteine Residues in Proteins

E Awoonor-Williams, CN Rowley - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Methods for the calculation of the p K a ionizable amino acids are valuable tools for
understanding pH-dependent properties of proteins. Cysteine is unique among the amino …

Identifying possible AChE inhibitors from drug-like molecules via machine learning and experimental studies

TH Nguyen, PT Tran, NQA Pham, VH Hoang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is one of the most important drug targets for Alzheimer's
disease (AD) treatment. In this work, a machine learning model was trained to rapidly and …

Rapid prediction of possible inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 main protease using docking and FPL simulations

MQ Pham, KB Vu, TNH Pham, LH Tran, NT Tung… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Originating for the first time in Wuhan, China, the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has caused a
serious global health issue. An effective treatment for SARS-CoV-2 is still unavailable …