Automatic design of decision-tree induction algorithms tailored to flexible-receptor docking data

RC Barros, AT Winck, KS Machado, MP Basgalupp… - BMC …, 2012 - Springer
Background This paper addresses the prediction of the free energy of binding of a drug
candidate with enzyme InhA associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This problem is …

Mining flexible-receptor docking experiments to select promising protein receptor snapshots

KS Machado, AT Winck, DDA Ruiz… - BMC genomics, 2010 - Springer
Background Molecular docking simulation is the Rational Drug Design (RDD) step that
investigates the affinity between protein receptors and ligands. Typically, molecular docking …

Effect of the explicit flexibility of the InhA enzyme from Mycobacterium tuberculosis in molecular docking simulations

EML Cohen, KS Machado, M Cohen… - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background Protein/receptor explicit flexibility has recently become an important feature of
molecular docking simulations. Taking the flexibility into account brings the docking …

Insights into the pH-dependent catalytic mechanism of Sulfolobus solfataricus β-glycosidase: A molecular dynamics study

A Subramanian, P Kadirvel, S Anishetty - Carbohydrate research, 2019 - Elsevier
Sulfolobus solfataricus β-glycosidase (SS-βGly) belongs to Glycosyl Hydrolase family1
(GH1) with broad substrate specificity. SS-βGly catalyzes both hydrolysis and …

FReDoWS: a method to automate molecular docking simulations with explicit receptor flexibility and snapshots selection

KS Machado, EK Schroeder, DD Ruiz, EML Cohen… - BMC genomics, 2011 - Springer
Background In silico molecular docking is an essential step in modern drug discovery when
driven by a well defined macromolecular target. Hence, the process is called structure …

Mining flexible‐receptor molecular docking data

KS Machado, AT Winck, DD Ruiz… - … : Data Mining and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge discovery in databases has become an integral part of practically every
aspect of bioinformatics research, which usually produces, and has to process, very large …

FReDD: Supporting mining strategies through a flexible-receptor docking database

AT Winck, KS Machado, O Norberto-de-Souza… - … in Bioinformatics and …, 2009 - Springer
Among different alternatives to consider the receptor flexibility in molecular docking
experiments we opt to execute a series of docking using receptor snapshots generated by …

Potential role of salt‐bridges in the hinge‐like movement of apicomplexa specific β‐hairpin of Plasmodium and Toxoplasma profilins: A molecular dynamics …

P Kadirvel, S Anishetty - Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Profilin is one of the actin‐binding proteins that regulate dynamics of actin polymerization. It
plays a key role in cell motility and invasion. It also interacts with several other proteins …

Discretization of flexible-receptor docking data

KS Machado, AT Winck, DD Ruiz… - … in Bioinformatics and …, 2010 - Springer
A careful analysis of flexible-receptor molecular docking results, particularly those related to
details of receptor-ligand interactions, is essential to improve the process of docking and the …

Molecular dynamics simulation study of Plasmodium falciparum and Escherichia coli SufA: Exploration of conformational changes possibly involved in iron-sulfur …

P Kadirvel, A Subramanian, N Sridharan… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are one of the earliest known metal complexes in
biological molecules. Suf system is one of the Fe-S biogenesis pathways. SufA belongs to …