Abstract Structure-based virtual screening (SBVS) via docking has been used to discover active molecules for a range of therapeutic targets. Chemical and protein data sets that …
P Śledź, A Caflisch - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•High-throughput docking of small molecules is very successful in hit identification, particularly for screening mainly rigid fragments.•Classical force fields with implicit solvent …
C Yang, EA Chen, Y Zhang - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking plays a significant role in early-stage drug discovery, from structure- based virtual screening (VS) to hit-to-lead optimization, and its capability and predictive …
R Lazim, D Suh, S Choi - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a rigorous theoretical tool that when used efficiently could provide reliable answers to questions pertaining to the structure-function relationship …
Recently, nanotechnology is involved in various fields of science, of which medicine is one of the most obvious. The use of nanoparticles in the process of treating and diagnosing …
Allostery, which is one of the most direct and efficient methods to fine-tune protein functions, has gained increasing recognition in drug discovery. However, there are several challenges …
Cryptic pockets expand the scope of drug discovery by enabling targeting of proteins currently considered undruggable because they lack pockets in their ground state structures …
Conspectus This Account highlights recent advances and discusses major challenges in investigations of cryptic (hidden) binding sites by molecular simulations. Cryptic binding …
The design of compounds that can discriminate between closely related target proteins remains a central challenge in drug discovery. Specific therapeutics targeting the highly …