Molecular dynamics simulations in drug discovery and pharmaceutical development

OMH Salo-Ahen, I Alanko, R Bhadane, AMJJ Bonvin… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become increasingly useful in the modern drug
development process. In this review, we give a broad overview of the current application …

End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: strategies and applications in drug design

E Wang, H Sun, J Wang, Z Wang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) and molecular
mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) are arguably very popular methods …

Molecular docking: shifting paradigms in drug discovery

L Pinzi, G Rastelli - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is an established in silico structure-based method widely used in drug
discovery. Docking enables the identification of novel compounds of therapeutic interest …

Drug repurposing for coronavirus (COVID-19): in silico screening of known drugs against coronavirus 3CL hydrolase and protease enzymes

AD Elmezayen, A Al-Obaidi, AT Şahin… - Journal of Biomolecular …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In December 2019, COVID-19 epidemic was described in Wuhan, China, and the
infection has spread widely affecting hundreds of thousands. Herein, an effort was made to …

Bioinformatics approaches to discovering food-derived bioactive peptides: Reviews and perspectives

Z Du, J Comer, Y Li - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Food-derived bioactive peptides (FBPs) are gaining interest due to their great potential in
agricultural byproduct valorization and high-activity peptide screening. The introduction of …

Autodock vina adopts more accurate binding poses but autodock4 forms better binding affinity

NT Nguyen, TH Nguyen, TNH Pham… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The binding pose and affinity between a ligand and enzyme are very important pieces of
information for computer-aided drug design. In the initial stage of a drug discovery project …

Nelfinavir was predicted to be a potential inhibitor of 2019-nCov main protease by an integrative approach combining homology modelling, molecular docking and …

Z Xu, C Peng, Y Shi, Z Zhu, K Mu, X Wang, W Zhu - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
nCov has caused more than 80 deaths as of 27 January 2020 in China, and infection cases
have been reported in more than 10 countries. However, there is no approved drug to treat …

Reverse vaccinology approach to design a novel multi-epitope vaccine candidate against COVID-19: an in silico study

M Enayatkhani, M Hasaniazad, S Faezi… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract At present, novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV, the causative agent of COVID-19) has
caused worldwide social and economic disruption. The disturbing statistics of this infection …

Assessment of mutations on RBD in the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants

CHS da Costa, CAB de Freitas, CN Alves… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (CoV-2) variant Omicron
spread more rapid than the other variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Mutations on the Spike (S) …

The SARS-CoV-2 Spike variant D614G favors an open conformational state

RA Mansbach, S Chakraborty, K Nguyen… - Biophysical …, 2021 - cell.com
The COVID-19 global pandemic is an international health emergency. It is caused by the
SARS-CoV-2 virus, which binds with its trimeric Spike protein to the ACE2 receptor in the …