Protein design: From the aspect of water solubility and stability

R Qing, S Hao, E Smorodina, D Jin, A Zalevsky… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

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 …

Multiscale simulations of biological membranes: the challenge to understand biological phenomena in a living substance

G Enkavi, M Javanainen, W Kulig, T Róg… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Biological membranes are tricky to investigate. They are complex in terms of molecular
composition and structure, functional over a wide range of time scales, and characterized by …

Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics simulation in pharmaceutical research 1: drug delivery

A Bunker, T Róg - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this review, we outline the growing role that molecular dynamics simulation is able to play
as a design tool in drug delivery. We cover both the pharmaceutical and computational …

The compendium of self-enactable techniques to change and self-manage motivation and behaviour v. 1.0

K Knittle, M Heino, MM Marques, M Stenius… - Nature Human …, 2020 - nature.com
Behaviour change techniques describe the content of behaviour change interventions, but
do not adequately account for the actions that people must themselves undertake to …

A perspective: active role of lipids in neurotransmitter dynamics

PA Postila, T Róg - Molecular Neurobiology, 2020 - Springer
Synaptic neurotransmission is generally considered as a function of membrane-embedded
receptors and ion channels in response to the neurotransmitter (NT) release and binding …

Mechanistic understanding from molecular dynamics in pharmaceutical research 2: lipid membrane in drug design

T Róg, M Girych, A Bunker - Pharmaceuticals, 2021 - mdpi.com
We review the use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation as a drug design tool in the
context of the role that the lipid membrane can play in drug action, ie, the interaction …

Explicit treatment of non‐Michaelis‐Menten and atypical kinetics in early drug discovery

B Srinivasan - ChemMedChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biological systems are highly regulated. They are also highly resistant to sudden
perturbations enabling them to maintain the dynamic equilibrium essential to sustain life …

Insights into S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferase related diseases and genetic polymorphisms

J Li, C Sun, W Cai, J Li, BP Rosen, J Chen - Mutation Research/Reviews in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Enzymatic methylation catalyzed by methyltransferases has a significant impact on many
human biochemical reactions. As the second most ubiquitous cofactor in humans, S …

Liver says no: the ongoing search for safe catechol O-methyltransferase inhibitors to replace tolcapone

TB Silva, F Borges, MP Serrão, P Soares-da-Silva - Drug discovery today, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•COMT inhibitors are valuable tools to help restore the dopamine pool in the
brain.•Clinically relevant COMT inhibitors are tight-binding nitrocatechols.•Alternative non …