Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)
40177220
Opioids exert their analgesic effect by binding to the µ opioid receptor (MOR), which initiates a downstream signaling pathway, eventually inhibiting pain transmission in the spinal cord. However, current opioids are addictive, often leading to overd...
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) is the central conduit for information transfer in the cell. Identifying potential RNA targets in disease conditions is a challenging task, given the vast repertoire of functional non-coding RNAs in a human cell. A potential dr...
Protein sequence design in the context of small molecules, nucleotides and metals is critical to enzyme and small-molecule binder and sensor design, but current state-of-the-art deep-learning-based sequence design methods are unable to model nonprote...
Understanding protein structures can facilitate the development of therapeutic drugs. Traditionally, protein structures have been determined through experimental approaches such as X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and cryo-electron microscopy...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
40127309
A complex web of intermolecular interactions defines and regulates biological processes. Understanding this web has been particularly challenging because of the sheer number of actors in biological systems: ∼10 proteins in a typical human cell offer ...
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling
40112531
PI3KC2α is a lipid kinase associated with cancer metastasis and thrombosis. In this study, we present a novel computational workflow integrating structure-based pharmacophore modeling, machine learning (ML), and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to...
The accelerating growth of make-on-demand chemical libraries provides unprecedented opportunities to identify starting points for drug discovery with virtual screening. However, these multi-billion-scale libraries are challenging to screen, even for ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
40196990
Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial in drug discovery, particularly during hit-to-lead and lead optimization phases, however, limitations in ligand force fields continue to impact prediction accuracy. In this work, we ...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
40186580
Directionality in molecular and biomolecular networks plays an important role in the accurate representation of the complex, dynamic, and asymmetrical nature of interactions present in protein-ligand binding, signal transduction, and biological pathw...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
40167386
Allosteric compounds offer an alternative mode of inhibition to orthosteric compounds with opportunities for selectivity and noncompetition. Structure-based drug design (SBDD) of allosteric compounds introduces complications compared to their orthost...