Large-scale assessment of binding free energy calculations in active drug discovery projects

CEM Schindler, H Baumann, A Blum… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Accurate ranking of compounds with regards to their binding affinity to a protein using
computational methods is of great interest to pharmaceutical research. Physics-based free …

Targeting intrinsically disordered proteins through dynamic interactions

J Chen, X Liu, J Chen - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are over-represented in major disease pathways and
have attracted significant interest in understanding if and how they may be targeted using …

Advanced sampling methods for multiscale simulation of disordered proteins and dynamic interactions

X Gong, Y Zhang, J Chen - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are highly prevalent and play important roles in
biology and human diseases. It is now also recognized that many IDPs remain dynamic …

Toward accurate simulation of coupling between protein secondary structure and phase separation

Y Zhang, S Li, X Gong, J Chen - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) frequently mediate phase separation that underlies
the formation of a biomolecular condensate. Together with theory and experiment, efficient …

Application of Hierarchical Clustering to Analyze Solvent-Accessible Surface Area Patterns in Amycolatopsis lipases

S Sraphet, B Javadi - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Solvent-Accessible Surface Area (SASA) as the one dimensional structure
property of the protein considers as the measuring the exposure of an amino acid residue to …

TMPRSS2 Inhibitor Discovery Facilitated through an In Silico and Biochemical Screening Platform

AL Peiffer, JM Garlick, Y Wu, JW Wotring… - ACS Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for new antiviral approaches because
many of the currently approved drugs have proven ineffective against mitigating SARS-CoV …

Exact Analytical Algorithm for the Solvent-Accessible Surface Area and Derivatives in Implicit Solvent Molecular Simulations on GPUs

X Cao, MH Hummel, Y Wang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we present differentiable solvent-accessible surface area (dSASA), an exact
geometric method to calculate SASA analytically along with atomic derivatives on GPUs …

Bone Healing via Carvacrol and Curcumin Nanoparticle on 3D Printed Scaffolds

A Dahiya, VS Chaudhari, S Bose - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carvacrol is a potent antimicrobial and anti‐inflammatory agent, while curcumin possesses
antioxidant, anti‐inflammatory, and anticancer properties. These phytochemicals have poor …

How much can physics do for protein design?

E Michael, T Simonson - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Physics and physical chemistry are an important thread in computational protein design,
complementary to knowledge-based tools. They provide molecular mechanics scoring …

Recent advances in solvation modeling applications: Chemical properties, reaction mechanisms and catalysis

L Xu, ML Coote - Annual Reports in Computational Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, we review recent studies in the field of computational solvation. Methods at
different scales from ab initio to force field calculations with both implicit solvent and explicit …