European journal of medicinal chemistry
Nov 16, 2025
The chimera combining the peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) and peptides represent a promising bifunctional strategy by concurrently binding with protein catalytic pocket and its associated RNA template, effectively disrupting protein's function. Conventi...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 13, 2025
Accurate identification of druggable pockets and their features is essential for structure-based drug design and effective downstream docking. Here, we present RAPID-Net, a deep learning-based algorithm designed for accurate prediction of binding poc...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 12, 2025
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an innovative drug discovery approach that leverages small molecules to induce proximity between a protein of interest (POI) and an E3 ubiquitin ligase (E3L) for selective degradation. Among TPD modalities, prote...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Nov 6, 2025
The sigma-2 receptor (σR/TMEM97) is a clinically relevant membrane protein involved in cholesterol regulation and overexpressed in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Despite its therapeutic potential, the dynamic mechanisms underlying σR function...
The analysis of molecular interactions between antigens and antibodies is crucial for understanding the immunological mechanisms underlying the immune response and for developing effective therapies against various diseases. In this context, the abil...
New psychoactive substances (NPS) targeting human cannabinoid receptor 1 pose a significant threat to society as recreational abusive drugs that have pronounced physiological side effects. These greater adverse effects compared to classical cannabino...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 31, 2025
Accurate in silico prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is essential for efficient hit identification in large molecular libraries. Commonly used structure-based methods such as docking often fail to rank compounds effectively, and free ener...
Protein-DNA interactions are crucial in life processes such as gene expression and regulation. Therefore, the accurate prediction of DNA-binding sites on proteins is highly important for the advancement of scientific understanding in the field of bio...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Oct 24, 2025
The interaction between staphylococcal protein A (SpA) and human immunoglobulin G (IgG) is pivotal in treating diseases such as cancer, inflammation, infections, and autoimmune disorders. However, acquiring natural SpA variants is labor-intensive, tr...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Oct 16, 2025
Rapid and accurate estimation of protein-ligand binding affinities is crucial for early-stage drug discovery, yet hindered by a trade-off between the accuracy of gold-standard physics-based methods and the speed of simpler empirical scoring functions...
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