Chemistry and biology of multicomponent reactions

A Domling, W Wang, K Wang - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) are one-pot reactions employing more than two starting
materials, for example, 3, 4,..., 7, where most of the atoms of the starting materials are …

Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 inhibitors in cancer therapy: an update

S Tadesse, EC Caldon, W Tilley… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) drives the progression of cells into the S-and M-phases
of the cell cycle. CDK2 activity is largely dispensable for normal development, but it is …

OPLS3e: Extending force field coverage for drug-like small molecules

K Roos, C Wu, W Damm, M Reboul… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Building upon the OPLS3 force field we report on an enhanced model, OPLS3e, that further
extends its coverage of medicinally relevant chemical space by addressing limitations in …

OPLS3: a force field providing broad coverage of drug-like small molecules and proteins

E Harder, W Damm, J Maple, C Wu… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The parametrization and validation of the OPLS3 force field for small molecules and proteins
are reported. Enhancements with respect to the previous version (OPLS2. 1) include the …

Accurate and reliable prediction of relative ligand binding potency in prospective drug discovery by way of a modern free-energy calculation protocol and force field

L Wang, Y Wu, Y Deng, B Kim, L Pierce… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Designing tight-binding ligands is a primary objective of small-molecule drug discovery.
Over the past few decades, free-energy calculations have benefited from improved force …

Assessment of binding affinity via alchemical free-energy calculations

M Kuhn, S Firth-Clark, P Tosco, ASJS Mey… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Free-energy calculations have seen increased usage in structure-based drug design.
Despite the rising interest, automation of the complex calculations and subsequent analysis …

Accurate prediction of the relative potencies of members of a series of kinase inhibitors using molecular docking and MM-GBSA scoring

PD Lyne, ML Lamb, JC Saeh - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2006 - ACS Publications
The ability of molecular docking, using the program Glide and an MM-GBSA postdocking
scoring protocol, to correctly rank a number of congeneric kinase inhibitors was assessed …

ACES: optimized alchemically enhanced sampling

TS Lee, HC Tsai, A Ganguly… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an alchemical enhanced sampling (ACES) method implemented in the GPU-
accelerated AMBER free energy MD engine. The methods hinges on the creation of an …

Fast, accurate, and reliable protocols for routine calculations of protein–ligand binding affinities in drug design projects using AMBER GPU-TI with ff14SB/GAFF

X He, S Liu, TS Lee, B Ji, VH Man, DM York… - ACS omega, 2020 - ACS Publications
Accurate prediction of the absolute or relative protein–ligand binding affinity is one of the
major tasks in computer-aided drug design projects, especially in the stage of lead …

The purines: Potent and versatile small molecule inhibitors and modulators of key biological targets

M Legraverend, DS Grierson - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2006 - Elsevier
The goal of this review is to highlight the wide range of biological activities displayed by
purines, with particular emphasis on new purine-based agents which find potential …