An artificial intelligence accelerated virtual screening platform for drug discovery

G Zhou, DV Rusnac, H Park, D Canzani… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based virtual screening is a key tool in early drug discovery, with growing
interest in the screening of multi-billion chemical compound libraries. However, the success …

[HTML][HTML] Protein representations: Encoding biological information for machine learning in biocatalysis

D Harding-Larsen, J Funk, NG Madsen… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Enzymes offer a more environmentally friendly and low-impact solution to conventional
chemistry, but they often require additional engineering for their application in industrial …

Structure of the human dopamine transporter and mechanisms of inhibition

DK Srivastava, V Navratna, DK Tosh, A Chinn, MF Sk… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The neurotransmitter dopamine has central roles in mood, appetite, arousal and movement.
Despite its importance in brain physiology and function, and as a target for illicit and …

The β-d-manno-heptoses are immune agonists across kingdoms

Y Tang, X Tian, M Wang, Y Cui, Y She, Z Shi, J Liu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Bacterial small molecule metabolites such as adenosine-diphosphate-d-glycero-β-d-manno-
heptose (ADP-heptose) and their derivatives act as effective innate immune agonists in …

Tutorial Review on the Set‐Up and Running of Quantum Mechanical Cluster Models for Enzymatic Reaction Mechanisms

SP de Visser, HPH Wong, Y Zhang… - … A European Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymes turnover substrates into products with amazing efficiency and selectivity and as
such have great potential for use in biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications …

A hybrid quantum computing pipeline for real world drug discovery

W Li, Z Yin, X Li, D Ma, S Yi, Z Zhang, C Zou, K Bu… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum computing, with its superior computational capabilities compared to classical
approaches, holds the potential to revolutionize numerous scientific domains, including …

Acetate enables metabolic fitness and cognitive performance during sleep disruption

Q He, L Ji, Y Wang, Y Zhang, H Wang, J Wang, Q Zhu… - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Sleep is essential for overall health, and its disruption is linked to increased risks of
metabolic, cognitive, and cardiovascular dysfunctions; however, the molecular mechanisms …

Single-molecule sensing inside stereo-and regio-defined hetero-nanopores

W Liu, Q Zhu, CN Yang, YH Fu, JC Zhang, MY Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Heteromeric pore-forming proteins often contain recognition patterns or stereospecific
selection filters. However, the construction of heteromeric pore-forming proteins for single …

Binding free energy calculations for lead optimization: assessment of their accuracy in an industrial drug design context

N Homeyer, F Stoll, A Hillisch… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Correctly ranking compounds according to their computed relative binding affinities will be of
great value for decision making in the lead optimization phase of industrial drug discovery …

Targeting Ras-, Rho-, and Rab-family GTPases via a conserved cryptic pocket

J Morstein, V Bowcut, M Fernando, Y Yang, L Zhu… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The family of Ras-like GTPases consists of over 150 different members, regulated by an
even larger number of guanine exchange factors (GEFs) and GTPase-activating proteins …