[HTML][HTML] The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential

AL Oliveira, MF Viegas, SL da Silva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The fascination and fear of snakes dates back to time immemorial, with the first scientific
treatise on snakebite envenoming, the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, dating from ancient Egypt …

Overcoming chemical, biological, and computational challenges in the development of inhibitors targeting protein-protein interactions

L Laraia, G McKenzie, DR Spring, AR Venkitaraman… - Chemistry & biology, 2015 - cell.com
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) underlie the majority of biological processes, signaling,
and disease. Approaches to modulate PPIs with small molecules have therefore attracted …

iSEE: Interface structure, evolution, and energy‐based machine learning predictor of binding affinity changes upon mutations

C Geng, A Vangone, GE Folkers… - Proteins: Structure …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative evaluation of binding affinity changes upon mutations is crucial for protein
engineering and drug design. Machine learning‐based methods are gaining increasing …

Computational alanine scanning with interaction entropy for protein–ligand binding free energies

X Liu, L Peng, Y Zhou, Y Zhang… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In protein–ligand binding, only a few residues contribute significantly to the ligand binding.
Quantitative characterization of binding free energies of specific residues in protein–ligand …

Interaction entropy for computational alanine scanning

Y Yan, M Yang, CG Ji, JZH Zhang - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The theoretical calculation of protein–protein binding free energy is a grand challenge in
computational biology. Accurate prediction of critical residues along with their specific and …

Drug Repurposing Targeting Pseudomonas aeruginosa MvfR Using Docking, Virtual Screening, Molecular Dynamics, and Free-Energy Calculations

TF Vieira, RP Magalhães, M Simões, SF Sousa - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic Gram-negative bacterium responsible for
acute and chronic infections in planktonic state or in biofilms. The sessile structures are …

Interaction entropy for computational alanine scanning in protein–protein binding

L Qiu, Y Yan, Z Sun, J Song… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are at the heart of signal transduction and are central to
the function of protein machine in biology. The highly specific protein–protein binding is …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of interior dielectric constant and entropic change on HIV-1 complex binding free energy prediction

Y Li, Y Cong, G Feng, S Zhong, JZH Zhang, H Sun… - Structural …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
At present, the calculated binding free energy obtained using the molecular
mechanics/Poisson-Boltzmann (Generalized-Born) surface area (MM/PB (GB) SA) method is …

Accurate and efficient calculation of protein–protein binding free energy-interaction entropy with residue type-specific dielectric constants

X Liu, L Peng, JZH Zhang - Journal of chemical information and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Accurate and efficient computation of protein–protein binding free energy remains a grand
challenge. In this study, we develop a new strategy to achieve efficient calculation for total …

New parameters for higher accuracy in the computation of binding free energy differences upon alanine scanning mutagenesis on protein–protein interfaces

ICM Simões, IPD Costa, JTS Coimbra… - Journal of Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Knowing how proteins make stable complexes enables the development of inhibitors to
preclude protein–protein (P: P) binding. The identification of the specific interfacial residues …