Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

Protein structure-based drug design: from docking to molecular dynamics

P Śledź, A Caflisch - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•High-throughput docking of small molecules is very successful in hit identification,
particularly for screening mainly rigid fragments.•Classical force fields with implicit solvent …

CHARMM36m: an improved force field for folded and intrinsically disordered proteins

J Huang, S Rauscher, G Nawrocki, T Ran, M Feig… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The all-atom additive CHARMM36 protein force field is widely used in molecular modeling
and simulations. We present its refinement, CHARMM36m (http://mackerell. umaryland …

ff14SB: improving the accuracy of protein side chain and backbone parameters from ff99SB

JA Maier, C Martinez, K Kasavajhala… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics is powerful for its speed in atomistic simulations, but an accurate force
field is required. The Amber ff99SB force field improved protein secondary structure balance …

ff19SB: amino-acid-specific protein backbone parameters trained against quantum mechanics energy surfaces in solution

C Tian, K Kasavajhala, KAA Belfon… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly popular in studying the
motions and functions of biomolecules. The accuracy of the simulation, however, is highly …

N501Y mutation of spike protein in SARS-CoV-2 strengthens its binding to receptor ACE2

F Tian, B Tong, L Sun, S Shi, B Zheng, Z Wang, X Dong… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
SARS-CoV-2 has been spreading around the world for the past year. Recently, several
variants such as B. 1.1. 7 (alpha), B. 1.351 (beta), and P. 1 (gamma), which share a key …

CHARMM-GUI input generator for NAMD, GROMACS, AMBER, OpenMM, and CHARMM/OpenMM simulations using the CHARMM36 additive force field

J Lee, X Cheng, S Jo, AD MacKerell, JB Klauda, W Im - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
Proper treatment of nonbonded interactions is essential for the accuracy of molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations, especially in studies of lipid mono-and bilayers. The use of the …

OpenMM 7: Rapid development of high performance algorithms for molecular dynamics

P Eastman, J Swails, JD Chodera… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
OpenMM is a molecular dynamics simulation toolkit with a unique focus on extensibility. It
allows users to easily add new features, including forces with novel functional forms, new …

OPLS3: a force field providing broad coverage of drug-like small molecules and proteins

E Harder, W Damm, J Maple, C Wu… - Journal of chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The parametrization and validation of the OPLS3 force field for small molecules and proteins
are reported. Enhancements with respect to the previous version (OPLS2. 1) include the …

CHARMM36 all‐atom additive protein force field: Validation based on comparison to NMR data

J Huang, AD MacKerell Jr - Journal of computational chemistry, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Protein structure and dynamics can be characterized on the atomistic level with both nuclear
magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Here …