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 …

Coarse-grained protein models and their applications

S Kmiecik, D Gront, M Kolinski, L Wieteska… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The traditional computational modeling of protein structure, dynamics, and interactions
remains difficult for many protein systems. It is mostly due to the size of protein …

HPEPDOCK: a web server for blind peptide–protein docking based on a hierarchical algorithm

P Zhou, B Jin, H Li, SY Huang - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Protein–peptide interactions are crucial in many cellular functions. Therefore, determining
the structure of protein–peptide complexes is important for understanding the molecular …

PEP-FOLD3: faster de novo structure prediction for linear peptides in solution and in complex

A Lamiable, P Thévenet, J Rey, M Vavrusa… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Structure determination of linear peptides of 5–50 amino acids in aqueous solution
and interacting with proteins is a key aspect in structural biology. PEP-FOLD3 is a novel …

Comprehensive evaluation of fourteen docking programs on protein–peptide complexes

G Weng, J Gao, Z Wang, E Wang, X Hu… - Journal of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A large number of protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are mediated by the interactions
between proteins and peptide segments binding partners, and therefore determination of …

[HTML][HTML] Protein–peptide docking: opportunities and challenges

M Ciemny, M Kurcinski, K Kamel, A Kolinski, N Alam… - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•We provide an overview of protein-peptide docking methods and their
applications.•Peptide docking tools can be divided on template-based, local and global …

Benchmarking of different molecular docking methods for protein-peptide docking

P Agrawal, H Singh, HK Srivastava, S Singh… - BMC …, 2019 - Springer
Background Molecular docking studies on protein-peptide interactions are a challenging
and time-consuming task because peptides are generally more flexible than proteins and …

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 …

AutoDock CrankPep: combining folding and docking to predict protein–peptide complexes

Y Zhang, MF Sanner - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Protein–peptide interactions mediate a wide variety of cellular and biological
functions. Methods for predicting these interactions have garnered a lot of interest over the …

Interfering peptides targeting protein–protein interactions: the next generation of drugs?

H Bruzzoni-Giovanelli, V Alezra, N Wolff, CZ Dong… - Drug Discovery …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Structure-based strategies allow more-specific targeting of protein–protein
interactions (PPIs).•Interfering peptides (IPs) become a promising alternative to small …