Tumor-specific neoantigens are mutated self-peptides presented by tumor cell major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and are necessary to elicit host's anti-cancer cytotoxic T cell responses. It could be specifically recognized by neoantigen...
Recombinant DNA technology has, in the last decades, contributed to a vast expansion of the use of protein drugs as pharmaceutical agents. However, such biological drugs can lead to the formation of anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) that may result in adve...
Decrypting the interface residues of the protein complexes provides insight into the functions of the proteins and, hence, the overall cellular machinery. Computational methods have been devised in the past to predict the interface residues using ami...
The in vitro-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) approach for predicting total plasma clearance (CL) has been widely used to rank order compounds early in discovery. More recently, a computational machine learning approach utilizing physicochemical descrip...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Jun 4, 2020
Calculating absolute binding free energies is challenging and important. In this paper, we test some recently developed metadynamics-based methods and develop a new combination with a Hamiltonian replica-exchange approach. The methods were tested on ...
Ensemble docking has provided an inexpensive method to account for receptor flexibility in molecular docking for virtual screening. Unfortunately, as there is no rigorous theory to connect the docking scores from multiple structures to measured activ...
Protein phosphorylation is essential for regulating cellular activities by modifying substrates at specific residues, which frequently interact with proteins containing phosphoprotein-binding domains (PPBDs) to propagate the phosphorylation signaling...
ChIP-seq is one of the core experimental resources available to understand genome-wide epigenetic interactions and identify the functional elements associated with diseases. The analysis of ChIP-seq data is important but poses a difficult computation...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 11, 2020
Virtual Screening (VS) based on molecular docking is an efficient method used for retrieving novel hit compounds in drug discovery. However, the accuracy of the current docking scoring function (SF) is usually insufficient. In this study, in order to...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 11, 2020
We present a new approach to estimate the binding affinity from given three-dimensional poses of protein-ligand complexes. In this scheme, every protein-ligand atom pair makes an additive free-energy contribution. The sum of these pairwise contributi...