Serine 477 plays a crucial role in the interaction of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with the human receptor ACE2

A Singh, G Steinkellner, K Köchl, K Gruber… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Since the worldwide outbreak of the infectious disease COVID-19, several studies have
been published to understand the structural mechanism of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV …

An insight from computational approach to explore novel, high-affinity phosphodiesterase 10A inhibitors for neurological disorders

B Sharma, D Bhattacherjee, GV Zyryanov… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The enzyme Phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) plays a regulatory role in the
cAMP/protein kinase A (PKA) signaling pathway by means of hydrolyzing cAMP and cGMP …

[HTML][HTML] Computer aided drug design in the development of proteolysis targeting chimeras

TM Tunjic, N Weber, M Brunsteiner - Computational and Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Proteolysis targeting chimeras represent a class of drug molecules with a number of
attractive properties, most notably a potential to work for targets that, so far, have been in …

Simulation of reversible protein–protein binding and calculation of binding free energies using perturbed distance restraints

JW Perthold, C Oostenbrink - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Virtually all biological processes depend on the interaction between proteins at some point.
The correct prediction of biomolecular binding free-energies has many interesting …

Simple entropy terms for end-point binding free energy calculations

WM Menzer, C Li, W Sun, B **e… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We introduce a number of computationally inexpensive modifications to the MM/PBSA and
MM/GBSA estimators for binding free energies, which are based on average receptor …

Calculating the absolute binding free energy of the insulin dimer in an explicit solvent

Q Gong, H Zhang, H Zhang, C Chen - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Insulin is a significant hormone in the regulation of glucose level in the blood. Its monomers
bind to each other to form dimers or hexamers through a complex process. To study the …

Ranking protein–protein docking results using steered molecular dynamics and potential of mean force calculations

LJ Kingsley, J Esquivel‐Rodríguez… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Crystallization of protein–protein complexes can often be problematic and therefore
computational structural models are often relied on. Such models are often generated using …

Continuous millisecond conformational cycle of a DEAH box helicase reveals control of domain motions by atomic-scale transitions

RA Becker, JS Hub - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Helicases are motor enzymes found in every living organism and viruses, where they
maintain the stability of the genome and control against false recombination. The DEAH-box …

Molecular dynamics study of human carbonic anhydrase II in complex with Zn2+ and acetazolamide on the basis of all-atom force field simulations

TO Wambo, LY Chen, SF McHardy, AT Tsin - Biophysical chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
Human carbonic anhydrase II (hCAII) represents an ultimate example of the perfectly
efficient metalloenzymes, which is capable of catalyzing the hydration of carbon dioxide with …

The α-Synuclein Monomer May Have Different Misfolding Mechanisms in the Induction of α-Synuclein Fibrils with Different Polymorphs

N Zhao, Q Zhang, F Yu, X Yao, H Liu - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The aggregation of alpha-synuclein (α-Syn) is closely related to the occurrence of some
neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The misfolding of α-Syn …