Forging the basis for develo** protein–ligand interaction scoring functions

Z Liu, M Su, L Han, J Liu, Q Yang, Y Li… - Accounts of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In structure-based drug design, scoring functions are widely used for fast
evaluation of protein–ligand interactions. They are often applied in combination with …

Docking-based inverse virtual screening: methods, applications, and challenges

X Xu, M Huang, X Zou - Biophysics reports, 2018 - Springer
Identifying potential protein targets for a small-compound ligand query is crucial to the
process of drug development. However, there are tens of thousands of proteins in human …

CSAR 2014: a benchmark exercise using unpublished data from pharma

HA Carlson, RD Smith… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The 2014 CSAR Benchmark Exercise was the last community-wide exercise that was
conducted by the group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For this event …

Identifying the molecular target sites for CFTR potentiators GLPG1837 and VX-770

HI Yeh, L Qiu, Y Sohma, K Conrath, X Zou… - Journal of General …, 2019 - rupress.org
The past two decades have witnessed major breakthroughs in develo** compounds that
target the chloride channel CFTR for the treatment of patients with cystic fibrosis. However …

Two-stage electro–mechanical coupling of a KV channel in voltage-dependent activation

P Hou, PW Kang, AD Kongmeneck, ND Yang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In voltage-gated potassium (KV) channels, the voltage-sensing domain (VSD) undergoes
sequential activation from the resting state to the intermediate state and activated state to …

An allosteric modulator activates BK channels by perturbing coupling between Ca2+ binding and pore opening

G Zhang, X Xu, Z Jia, Y Geng, H Liang, J Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
BK type Ca2+-activated K+ channels activate in response to both voltage and Ca2+. The
membrane-spanning voltage sensor domain (VSD) activation and Ca2+ binding to the …

A PIP2 substitute mediates voltage sensor-pore coupling in KCNQ activation

Y Liu, X Xu, J Gao, MM Naffaa, H Liang, J Shi… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract KCNQ family K+ channels (KCNQ1-5) in the heart, nerve, epithelium and ear
require phosphatidylinositol 4, 5-bisphosphate (PIP2) for voltage dependent activation …

Template‐guided method for protein–ligand complex structure prediction: Application to CASP15 protein–ligand studies

X Xu, R Duan, X Zou - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction 15 (CASP15) added a new category of
ligand prediction to promote the development of protein/RNA‐ligand modeling methods …

Docking of small molecules to farnesoid X receptors using AutoDock Vina with the Convex-PL potential: lessons learned from D3R Grand Challenge 2

M Kadukova, S Grudinin - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The 2016 D3R Grand Challenge 2 provided an opportunity to test multiple protein–
ligand docking protocols on a set of ligands bound to farnesoid X receptor that has many …

Protein–ligand docking using FFT based sampling: D3R case study

D Padhorny, DR Hall, H Mirzaei, AB Mamonov… - Journal of computer …, 2018 - Springer
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) based approaches have been successful in application to
modeling of relatively rigid protein–protein complexes. Recently, we have been able to …