Protein–protein interactions form central elements of almost all cellular processes. Knowledge of the structure of protein–protein complexes but also of the binding affinity is of …
Cysteine plays an essential role in cellular redox homoeostasis as a key constituent of the tripeptide glutathione (GSH). A rate limiting step in cellular GSH synthesis is the availability …
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel corona virus that causes corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The COVID-19 rapidly spread across the …
H Sun, L Duan, F Chen, H Liu, Z Wang, P Pan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Entropy effects play an important role in drug–target interactions, but the entropic contribution to ligand-binding affinity is often neglected by end-point binding free energy …
ZM Wu, F Xie, W Zheng, CF Liu, CP Lin, RC Zheng… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Amidases are robust biocatalysts for the industrial synthesis of carboxylic acids. Amidase- catalyzed hydrolysis of 2-chloronicotinamide is regarded as a promising route for 2 …
Computational studies play an increasingly important role in chemistry and biophysics, mainly thanks to improvements in hardware and algorithms. In drug discovery and …
K Huang, S Luo, Y Cong, S Zhong, JZH Zhang, L Duan - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The molecular mechanics/Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) method is constantly used to calculate the binding free energy of protein–ligand complexes, and has …
Z Wang, H Sun, C Shen, X Hu, J Gao, D Li… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The identification and optimization of lead compounds are inalienable components in drug design and discovery pipelines. As a powerful computational approach for the identification …
The emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants poses a threat to the human population where it is difficult to assess the severity of a particular variant of the virus. Spike protein and …