Advances in computational methods for ligand binding kinetics

F Sohraby, A Nunes-Alves - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Binding kinetic parameters can be correlated with drug efficacy, which in recent years led to
the development of various computational methods for predicting binding kinetic rates and …

Predicting biomolecular binding kinetics: A review

J Wang, HN Do, K Koirala, Y Miao - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular binding kinetics including the association (k on) and dissociation (k off) rates
are critical parameters for therapeutic design of small-molecule drugs, peptides, and …

Ligand Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (LiGaMD): Characterization of ligand binding thermodynamics and kinetics

Y Miao, A Bhattarai, J Wang - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calculations of ligand binding free energies and kinetic rates are important for drug design.
However, such tasks have proven challenging in computational chemistry and biophysics …

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 …

In silico modeling and scoring of PROTAC-mediated ternary complex poses

J Liao, X Nie, IC Unarta, SS Ericksen… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) are molecules that induce protein degradation
via formation of ternary complexes between an E3 ubiquitin ligase and a target protein. The …

Molecular Docking and Dynamics Simulation Study of Hyrtios erectus Isolated Scalarane Sesterterpenes as Potential SARS-CoV-2 Dual Target Inhibitors

SS Elhady, RFA Abdelhameed, RT Malatani… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The ongoing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic shows
unprecedented challenges for the worldwide healthcare system. Despite the large clinical …

Recent progress in molecular simulation methods for drug binding kinetics

A Nunes-Alves, DB Kokh, RC Wade - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Drug-target binding kinetics contribute to drug efficacy.•Many molecular dynamics
approaches to studying binding kinetics have been reported.•High quality datasets enable …

On calculating free energy differences using ensembles of transition paths

R Hall, T Dixon, A Dickson - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The free energy of a process is the fundamental quantity that determines its spontaneity or
propensity at a given temperature. In particular, the binding free energy of a drug candidate …

Roles of Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Predictions of Binding Kinetic Parameters

J Chen, W Wang, H Sun, W He - Mini Reviews in Medicinal …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
Rational predictions on binding kinetics parameters of drugs to targets play significant roles
in future drug designs. Full conformational samplings of targets are requisite for accurate …

Dissecting the allosteric fine-tuning of enzyme catalysis

XQ Yao, D Hamelberg - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fully understanding the mechanism of allosteric regulation in biomolecules requires
separating and examining all of the involved factors. In enzyme catalysis, allosteric effector …