Integration of molecular docking analysis and molecular dynamics simulations for studying food proteins and bioactive peptides

A Vidal-Limon, JE Aguilar-Toalá… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In silico tools, such as molecular docking, are widely applied to study interactions and
binding affinity of biological activity of proteins and peptides. However, restricted sampling of …

Enhanced sampling methods for molecular dynamics simulations

J Hénin, T Lelièvre, MR Shirts, O Valsson… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Enhanced sampling algorithms have emerged as powerful methods to extend the utility of
molecular dynamics simulations and allow the sampling of larger portions of the …

Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics: Principles and applications

J Wang, PR Arantes, A Bhattarai… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) is a robust computational method for
simultaneous unconstrained enhanced sampling and free energy calculations of …

Ligand Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (LiGaMD): Characterization of ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Y Miao, A Bhattarai, J Wang - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calculations of ligand binding free energies and kinetic rates are important for drug design.
However, such tasks have proven challenging in computational chemistry and biophysics …

Peptide Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (Pep-GaMD): Enhanced sampling and free energy and kinetics calculations of peptide binding

J Wang, Y Miao - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Peptides mediate up to 40% of known protein–protein interactions in higher eukaryotes and
play an important role in cellular signaling. However, it is challenging to simulate both …

Along the allostery stream: Recent advances in computational methods for allosteric drug discovery

D Ni, Z Chai, Y Wang, M Li, Z Yu, Y Liu… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Allostery is a universal, biological phenomenon in which orthosteric sites are fine‐tuned by
topologically distal allosteric sites triggered by perturbations, such as ligand binding, residue …

Assessing the performance of the MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA methods. 10. Impacts of enhanced sampling and variable dielectric model on protein–protein interactions

E Wang, G Weng, H Sun, H Du, F Zhu… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Enhanced sampling has been extensively used to capture the conformational transitions in
protein folding, but it attracts much less attention in the studies of protein–protein …

[HTML][HTML] Delineating the activation mechanism and conformational landscape of a class BG protein-coupled receptor glucagon receptor

Y Wang, M Li, W Liang, X Shi, J Fan, R Kong… - Computational and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Class BG protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important targets in the treatment of
metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Although multiple structures of class B GPCRs–G protein …

Elucidation of cryptic and allosteric pockets within the SARS-CoV-2 main protease

T Sztain, R Amaro, JA McCammon - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has rapidly spread across the globe, posing an urgent health
concern. Many quests to computationally identify treatments against the virus rely on in silico …

Time evolution of the millisecond allosteric activation of imidazole glycerol phosphate synthase

C Calvó-Tusell, MA Maria-Solano… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of enzymatic allosteric regulation requires the
structural characterization of functional states and also their time evolution toward the …