Using PyMOL as a platform for computational drug design

S Yuan, HCS Chan, Z Hu - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
PyMOL, a cross‐platform molecular graphics tool, has been widely used for three‐
dimensional (3D) visualization of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, electron …

A moonlighting role for enzymes of glycolysis in the co-localization of mitochondria and chloroplasts

Y Zhang, A Sampathkumar, SML Kerber… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Glycolysis is one of the primordial pathways of metabolism, playing a pivotal role in energy
metabolism and biosynthesis. Glycolytic enzymes are known to form transient multi-enzyme …

Rational enzyme design for enabling biocatalytic Baldwin cyclization and asymmetric synthesis of chiral heterocycles

JK Li, G Qu, X Li, Y Tian, C Cui, FG Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral heterocyclic compounds are needed for important medicinal applications. We report
an in silico strategy for the biocatalytic synthesis of chiral N-and O-heterocycles via Baldwin …

Structural and computational insight into the catalytic mechanism of limonene epoxide hydrolase mutants in stereoselective transformations

Z Sun, L Wu, M Bocola, HCS Chan… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution of limonene epoxide hydrolase (LEH), which catalyzes the hydrolytic
desymmetrization reactions of cyclopentene oxide and cyclohexene oxide, results in (R, R) …

PyVibMS: a PyMOL plugin for visualizing vibrations in molecules and solids

Y Tao, W Zou, S Nanayakkara, E Kraka - Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2020 - Springer
Visualizing vibrational motions calculated with different ab initio packages requires
dedicated post-processing tools. Here, we present a PyMOL plugin called PyVibMS for …

Accessible and predictable QM-cluster model building for enzymes with the Residue Interaction Network Residue Selector

DA Wappett, NJ DeYonker - Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Quantum mechanical (QM) modeling is a useful tool for understanding and supplementing
experimental observations of enzyme mechanisms and structures. The QM-cluster approach …

Elucidating enzymatic catalysis using fast quantum chemical descriptors

IB Grillo, GA Urquiza-Carvalho… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In general, computational simulations of enzymatic catalysis processes are thermodynamic
and structural surveys to complement experimental studies, requiring high level …

Solubility profiles, hydration and desolvation of curcumin complexed with γ-cyclodextrin and hydroxypropyl-γ-cyclodextrin

S Shityakov, RE Salmas, S Durdagi, N Roewer… - Journal of Molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated curcumin (CUR) solubility profiles and hydration/desolvation
effects of this substance formulated with γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) and hydroxypropyl-γ …

Mechanism of the glycosidic bond cleavage of mismatched thymine in human thymine DNA glycosylase revealed by classical molecular dynamics and quantum …

N Kanaan, R Crehuet, P Imhof - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Base excision of mismatched or damaged nucleotides catalyzed by glycosylase enzymes is
the first step of the base excision repair system, a machinery preserving the integrity of DNA …

Theoretical characterization of the shikimate 5-dehydrogenase reaction from Mycobacterium tuberculosis by hybrid QC/MM simulations and quantum chemical …

IB Grillo, JFR Bachega, LFSM Timmers… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Springer
In this study, we have investigated the enzyme shikimate 5-dehydrogenase from the
causative agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We have employed a mixture …