GPU-accelerated all-atom particle-mesh Ewald continuous constant pH molecular dynamics in Amber

JA Harris, R Liu, V Martins de Oliveira… - Journal of chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Constant pH molecular dynamics (MD) simulations sample protonation states on the fly
according to the conformational environment and user specified pH conditions; however, the …

Quantum descriptors for predicting and understanding the structure–activity relationships of Michael acceptor warheads

R Liu, EA Vázquez-Montelongo, S Ma… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Predictive modeling and understanding of chemical warhead reactivities have the potential
to accelerate targeted covalent drug discovery. Recently, the carbanion formation free …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to the continuous constant pH molecular dynamics methods in Amber and CHARMM [Article v1. 0]

JA Henderson, R Liu, JA Harris, Y Huang… - Living journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Like temperature and pressure, solution pH is an important environmental variable in
biomolecular simulations. Virtually all proteins depend on pH to maintain their structure and …

Evaluation of a Covalent Library of Diverse Warheads (CovLib) Binding to JNK3, USP7, or p53

T Klett, M Schwer, LN Ernst… - Drug Design …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Over the last few years, covalent fragment-based drug discovery has gained
significant importance. Thus, striving for more warhead diversity, we conceived a library …

Insight into targeting Exon20 insertion mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor with wild type-sparing inhibitors

J Lategahn, HL Tumbrink… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite the clinical efficacy of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors, a subset
of patients with non-small cell lung cancer displays insertion mutations in exon20 in EGFR …

Targeting Cysteine Oxidation in Thrombotic Disorders

M Yang, RL Silverstein - Antioxidants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Oxidative stress increases the risk for clinically significant thrombotic events, yet the
mechanisms by which oxidants become prothrombotic are unclear. In this review, we …

Analysis of the ERK Pathway Cysteinome for Targeted Covalent Inhibition of RAF and MEK Kinases

A Romany, R Liu, S Zhan, J Clayton… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The ERK pathway is one of the most important signaling cascades involved in
tumorigenesis. So far, eight noncovalent inhibitors of RAF and MEK kinases in the ERK …

[HTML][HTML] Proteome-wide profiling of the covalent-Druggable cysteines with a structure-based deep graph learning network

H Du, D Jiang, J Gao, X Zhang, L Jiang, Y Zeng, Z Wu… - Research, 2022 - spj.science.org
Covalent ligands have attracted increasing attention due to their unique advantages, such
as long residence time, high selectivity, and strong binding affinity. They also show promise …

Force Field Limitations of All-Atom Continuous Constant pH Molecular Dynamics

CA Peeples, R Liu, J Shen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
All-atom constant pH molecular dynamics simulations offer a powerful tool for understanding
pH-mediated and proton-coupled biological processes. As the protonation equilibria of …

PTM‐Psi: A python package to facilitate the computational investigation of post‐translational modification on protein structures and their impacts on dynamics …

D Mejia‐Rodriguez, H Kim, N Sadler, X Li… - Protein …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐translational modification (PTM) of a protein occurs after it has been synthesized from
its genetic template, and involves chemical modifications of the protein's specific amino acid …