Advances in the calculation of binding free energies

A de Ruiter, C Oostenbrink - Current opinion in structural biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Binding free energy calculations are increasing used in drug design and
biotechnology.•We distinguish end-state methods, alchemical methods and pathway …

A general picture of cucurbit [8] uril host–guest binding

Z Sun, Z Huai, Q He, Z Liu - Journal of chemical information and …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Describing, understanding, and designing complex interaction networks within
macromolecular systems remain challenging in modern chemical research. Host–guest …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular modelling of ionic liquids: General guidelines on fixed-charge force fields for balanced descriptions

Z Sun, Z Gong, L Zheng, P Kalhor, Z Huai, Z Liu - Journal of Ionic Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
It has been increasingly common to investigate dynamic and thermodynamic properties of
green solvents at atomistic scales with molecular simulation. In this work, we present a …

Ion dynamics and selectivity of Nav channels from molecular dynamics simulation

Z Sun, Z Gong, F ** in TNA duplex: force fields, salt concentrations, and free-energy simulation methods
Z Sun, JZH Zhang - CCS Chemistry, 2021 - chinesechemsoc.org
Threofuranosyl nucleic acid (TNA) is an analogue of DNA with a shift in the internucleotide
linkages from the wild-type 5'-to-3'direction to 3'-to-2.'This alteration leads to higher chemical …

SAMPL7 TrimerTrip host–guest binding affinities from extensive alchemical and end-point free energy calculations

Z Huai, H Yang, X Li, Z Sun - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
The prediction of host–guest binding affinities with computational modelling is still a
challenging task. In the 7th statistical assessment of the modeling of proteins and ligands …

Seeding the multi-dimensional nonequilibrium pulling for Hamiltonian variation: indirect nonequilibrium free energy simulations at QM levels

Z Sun, Q He - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of free energy simulations in the alchemical and configurational spaces
provides a feasible route to access the thermodynamic profiles under a computationally …

SAMPL6 host–guest binding affinities and binding poses from spherical-coordinates-biased simulations

Z Sun, Q He, X Li, Z Zhu - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2020 - Springer
Host–guest binding is a challenging problem in computer simulation. The prediction of
binding affinities between hosts and guests is an important part of the statistical assessment …

BAR‐Based Multi‐Dimensional Nonequilibrium Pulling for Indirect Construction of QM/MM Free Energy Landscapes: Varying the QM Region

Z Sun, Z Liu - Advanced Theory and Simulations, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The indirect free energy simulation at quantum mechanics (QM)/molecular mechanics (MM)
levels provides a feasible alternative to direct QM/MM simulations. The main idea under the …

SAMPL7 trimertrip host–guest binding poses and binding affinities from spherical-coordinates-biased simulations

Z Sun - Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2021 - Springer
Host–guest binding remains a major challenge in modern computational modelling. The
newest 7th statistical assessment of the modeling of proteins and ligands (SAMPL) …