The identification of drug-target interactions has great significance for pharmaceutical scientific research. Since traditional experimental methods identifying drug-target interactions is costly and time-consuming, the use of machine learning method...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Dec 7, 2018
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a diverse class of proteins that depress the kinetically observable freezing point of water. AFPs have been of scientific interest for decades, but the lack of an accurate model for predicting AFP activity has hindered ...
We present a molecular dynamics simulation study of alkali metal cation transport through the double-helical and the head-to-head conformers of the gramicidin ion channel. Our approach is based on a thermodynamic integration network, which consists o...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Oct 9, 2018
The value of protein models obtained with automated protein structure prediction depends primarily on their accuracy. Protein model quality assessment is thus critical to select the model that can best answer biologically relevant questions from an e...
Accurate protein structure prediction from amino acid sequence is still an unsolved problem. The most reliable methods centre on template based modelling. However, the accuracy of these models entirely depends on the availability of experimentally re...
International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology
Aug 24, 2018
Shikimate dehydrogenase (HpSDH) (EC 1.1.1.25) is a key enzyme in the shikimate pathway of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), which catalyzes the NADPH-dependent reversible reduction of 3-dehydroshikimate to shikimate. Targeting HpSDH has been recognize...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Aug 16, 2018
Advanced mathematics, such as multiscale weighted colored subgraph and element specific persistent homology, and machine learning including deep neural networks were integrated to construct mathematical deep learning models for pose and binding affin...
Estrogen receptor α (ERα) plays a significant role in occurrence of breast cancer and may cause various adverse side-effects when ERα is an off-target protein. A theoretical model was derived to predict the binding affinity of ERα using the pharmacop...
Journal of computer-aided molecular design
Jul 10, 2018
We assess the ability of our convolutional neural network (CNN)-based scoring functions to perform several common tasks in the domain of drug discovery. These include correctly identifying ligand poses near and far from the true binding mode when giv...
Protein kinases are dynamic, adopting different conformational states that are critical for their catalytic activity. We assess a range of structural features derived from the conserved αC helix and DFG motif to define the conformational space of the...