[HTML][HTML] Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity with deep learning

Y Wang, Q Jiao, J Wang, X Cai, W Zhao… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The prediction of binding affinities between target proteins and small molecule drugs is
essential for speeding up the drug research and design process. To attain precise and …

Which cryptic sites are feasible drug targets?

M Lazou, D Kozakov, D Joseph-Mccarthy, S Vajda - Drug Discovery Today, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryptic sites can expand the space of druggable proteins, but the potential usefulness of
such sites needs to be investigated before any major effort. Given that the binding pockets …

NMR Characterization of the Papain-like Protease from SARS-CoV-2 Identifies the Conformational Heterogeneity in Its Inhibitor-Binding Site

Y Shiraishi, I Shimada - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Papain-like protease (PLpro) from severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) is a prime target for the development of antivirals for Coronavirus disease 2019 …

Druggable transient pockets in protein kinases

K Umezawa, I Kii - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drug discovery using small molecule inhibitors is reaching a stalemate due to low selectivity,
adverse off-target effects and inevitable failures in clinical trials. Conventional chemical …

Mutual induced-fit mechanism drives binding between intrinsically disordered Bim and cryptic binding site of Bcl-xL

GJ Bekker, M Araki, K Oshima, Y Okuno… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The intrinsically disordered region (IDR) of Bim binds to the flexible cryptic site of Bcl-xL, a
pro-survival protein involved in cancer progression that plays an important role in initiating …

Cryptic-site binding mechanism of medium-sized Bcl-xL inhibiting compounds elucidated by McMD-based dynamic docking simulations

GJ Bekker, I Fukuda, J Higo, Y Fukunishi, N Kamiya - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We have performed multicanonical molecular dynamics (McMD) based dynamic docking
simulations to study and compare the binding mechanism between two medium-sized …

Drugging fuzzy complexes in transcription

BG Su, MJ Henley - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transcription factors (TFs) are one of the most promising but underutilized classes of drug
targets. The high degree of intrinsic disorder in both the structure and the interactions …

Single-molecule analysis of interaction between p53TAD and MDM2 using aerolysin nanopores

S Oh, MK Lee, SW Chi - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are regarded as important, but undruggable targets.
Intrinsically disordered p53 transactivation domain (p53TAD) mediates PPI with mouse …

Edge-gated graph neural network for predicting protein-ligand binding affinities

Q Jiao, Z Qiu, Y Wang, C Chen… - 2021 IEEE international …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Predicting Protein-ligand binding affinities using Deep Learning can significantly shorten the
drug development cycle. Recently, Graph neural network models have been developed, and …

Detecting Protein‐Ligand Interactions with Nitroxide Based Paramagnetic Cosolutes

A Penk, A Danielsson, M Gaardløs… - … A European Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
NMR spectroscopy techniques can provide important information about protein‐ligand
interactions. Here we tested an NMR approach which relies on the measurement of …