Progress in the prediction of pKa values in proteins

E Alexov, EL Mehler, N Baker… - Proteins: structure …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The pKa‐cooperative aims to provide a forum for experimental and theoretical researchers
interested in protein pKa values and protein electrostatics in general. The first round of the …

On the role of electrostatics in protein–protein interactions

Z Zhang, S Witham, E Alexov - Physical biology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The role of electrostatics in protein–protein interactions and binding is reviewed in this
paper. A brief outline of the computational modeling, in the framework of continuum …

A suite of tutorials for the WESTPA rare-events sampling software [Article v1. 0]

AT Bogetti, B Mostofian, A Dickson… - Living journal of …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The weighted ensemble (WE) strategy has been demonstrated to be highly efficient in
generating pathways and rate constants for rare events such as protein folding and protein …

Key interacting residues between RBD of SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 receptor: combination of molecular dynamics simulation and density functional calculation

B Jawad, P Adhikari, R Podgornik… - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 binds to the ACE2 receptor via its receptor-binding
domain (RBD), with the RBD–ACE2 complex presenting an essential molecular target for …

On the dielectric “constant” of proteins: smooth dielectric function for macromolecular modeling and its implementation in DelPhi

L Li, C Li, Z Zhang, E Alexov - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Implicit methods for modeling protein electrostatics require dielectric properties of the system
to be known, in particular, the value of the dielectric constant of protein. While numerous …

Calculating protein–ligand binding affinities with MMPBSA: Method and error analysis

C Wang, PH Nguyen, K Pham, D Huynh… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular Mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann Surface Area (MMPBSA) methods have become
widely adopted in estimating protein–ligand binding affinities due to their efficiency and high …

DelPhi: a comprehensive suite for DelPhi software and associated resources

L Li, C Li, S Sarkar, J Zhang, S Witham, Z Zhang… - BMC biophysics, 2012 - Springer
Background Accurate modeling of electrostatic potential and corresponding energies
becomes increasingly important for understanding properties of biological macromolecules …

Modeling effects of human single nucleotide polymorphisms on protein-protein interactions

S Teng, T Madej, A Panchenko, E Alexov - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
A large set of three-dimensional structures of 264 protein-protein complexes with known
nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) at the interface was built using …

The role of protonation states in ligand-receptor recognition and binding

M Petukh, S Stefl, E Alexov - Current pharmaceutical design, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
In this review we discuss the role of protonation states in receptor-ligand interactions,
providing experimental evidences and computational predictions that complex formation …

Surfing the protein-protein interaction surface using docking methods: application to the design of PPI inhibitors

R Sable, S Jois - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
Blocking protein-protein interactions (PPI) using small molecules or peptides modulates
biochemical pathways and has therapeutic significance. PPI inhibition for designing drug …