Carbohydrate–protein interactions: Molecular modeling insights

S Perez, I Tvaroška - Advances in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The article reviews the significant contributions to, and the present status of, applications of
computational methods for the characterization and prediction of protein–carbohydrate …

Docking validation resources: protein family and ligand flexibility experiments

S Mukherjee, TE Balius, RC Rizzo - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A database consisting of 780 ligand− receptor complexes, termed SB2010, has been
derived from the Protein Databank to evaluate the accuracy of docking protocols for …

Evaluation of DOCK 6 as a pose generation and database enrichment tool

SR Brozell, S Mukherjee, TE Balius, DR Roe… - Journal of computer …, 2012 - Springer
In conjunction with the recent American Chemical Society symposium titled “Docking and
Scoring: A Review of Docking Programs” the performance of the DOCK6 program was …

Characterizing loop dynamics and ligand recognition in human-and avian-type influenza neuraminidases via generalized born molecular dynamics and end-point free …

RE Amaro, X Cheng, I Ivanov, D Xu… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The comparative dynamics and inhibitor binding free energies of group-1 and group-2
pathogenic influenza A subtype neuraminidase (NA) enzymes are of fundamental biological …

Zwitterionic structures: from physicochemical properties toward computer-aided drug designs

Z Yang, Q Li, G Yang - Future Medicinal Chemistry, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Zwitterions, used widely in chemical, biological and medicinal fields, show distinct
physicochemical properties relative to ordinary ampholytes, which largely decide their …

Molecular modeling study on the resistance mechanism of HCV NS3/4A serine protease mutants R155K, A156V and D168A to TMC435

W Xue, D Pan, Y Yang, H Liu, X Yao - Antiviral research, 2012 - Elsevier
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3/4A protease represents an attractive drug target for antiviral
therapy. However, drug resistance often occurs, making many protease inhibitors ineffective …

Implementation and evaluation of a docking‐rescoring method using molecular footprint comparisons

TE Balius, S Mukherjee… - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A docking-rescoring method, based on per-residue van der Waals (VDW), electrostatic (ES),
or hydrogen bond (HB) energies has been developed to aid discovery of ligands that have …

Independent-trajectories thermodynamic-integration free-energy changes for biomolecular systems: determinants of H5N1 avian influenza virus neuraminidase …

M Lawrenz, R Baron… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Free-energy changes are essential physicochemical quantities for understanding most
biochemical processes. Yet, the application of accurate thermodynamic-integration (TI) …

Distinct glycan topology for avian and human sialopentasaccharide receptor analogues upon binding different hemagglutinins: a molecular dynamics perspective

D Xu, EI Newhouse, RE Amaro, HC Pao… - Journal of molecular …, 2009 - Elsevier
Hemagglutinin (HA) binds to sialylated glycans exposed on the host cell surface in the initial
stage of avian influenza virus infection. It has been previously hypothesized that glycan …

Top leads for swine influenza A/H1N1 virus revealed by steered molecular dynamics approach

BK Mai, MH Viet, MS Li - Journal of chemical information and …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Since March 2009, the rapid spread of infection during the recent A/H1N1 swine flu
pandemic has raised concerns of a far more dangerous outcome should this virus become …