DHFR inhibitors: reading the past for discovering novel anticancer agents

MV Raimondi, O Randazzo, M La Franca, G Barone… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors are an important class of drugs, as evidenced by their use
as antibacterial, antimalarial, antifungal, and anticancer agents. Progress in understanding …

Strain energy in enzyme–substrate binding: An energetic insight into the flexibility versus rigidity of enzyme active site

X Guo, D He, L Huang, L Liu, L Liu, H Yang - … and Theoretical Chemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Elucidating the structural properties of enzyme active site is fundamentally important for our
understanding of the reaction mechanism and biochemical implication underlying enzyme …

Dihydrofolate Reductase Inhibitors as Anticancer Agents: Progress and Perspectives in Drug Design and Development

D Kong, AV Dolzhenko - 2024 - Springer
Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is an enzyme involved in the cellular synthesis of DNA
building blocks, such as thymidylate, and is critical for cell proliferation. Therefore, DHFR …

Enhancing DFT-based energy landscape exploration by coupling quantum mechanics and static modes

L Foulon, A Hémeryck, G Landa, M Brut - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Unravelling the atomic scale diffusion that can occur at the surface, at the interface or into
the bulk is challenging: multi-scale modelling approaches usually require intensive …

Deciphering the catalysis-associated conformational changes of human adenylate kinase 1 with single-molecule spectroscopy

CY Lin, JY Huang, LW Lo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2013 - ACS Publications
Human adenylate kinase isoenzyme 1 (AK1) is the key enzyme in maintaining the cellular
energy homeostasis. The catalysis-associated conformational changes of AK1 involve large …

Toward in silico biomolecular manipulation through static modes: atomic scale characterization of HIV-1 protease flexibility

M Brut, A Estève, G Landa… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Probing biomolecular flexibility with atomic-scale resolution is a challenging task in current
computational biology for fundamental understanding and prediction of biomolecular …

[PDF][PDF] Mimicking DNA stretching with the Static Mode method: Shear stress versus transverse pulling stress

M Brut, A Estève, G Landa… - The European Physical …, 2012 - Springer
DNA sequencing using nanopores is closer than ever to become a reality, but further
research and development still need to be done, especially to unravel the atomic-scale …