Current opinion in structural biology
Mar 23, 2019
While G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest class of membrane proteins, structures and endogenous ligands of a large portion of GPCRs remain unknown. Because of the involvement of GPCRs in various signaling pathways and physiolog...
Inverse Virtual Screening is a powerful technique in the early stage of drug discovery process. This technique can provide important clues for biologically active molecules, which is useful in the following researches of durg discovery. In this work,...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 18, 2019
Virtual screening is a promising method for obtaining novel hit compounds in drug discovery. It aims to enrich potentially active compounds from a large chemical library for further biological experiments. However, the accuracy of current virtual scr...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 18, 2019
The identification of possible targets for a known bioactive compound is of the utmost importance for drug design and development. Molecular docking is one possible approach for in-silico protein target prediction, whereas a molecule is docked into s...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Feb 21, 2019
Despite tremendous progress in understanding and engineering enzymes, knowledge of how enzyme structures and their dynamics induce observed catalytic properties is incomplete, and capabilities to engineer enzymes fall far short of industrial needs. H...
BACKGROUND: Identifying specific residues for protein-DNA interactions are of considerable importance to better recognize the binding mechanism of protein-DNA complexes. Despite the fact that many computational DNA-binding residue prediction approach...
International journal of nanomedicine
Dec 28, 2018
BACKGROUND: Nanoparticles (NPs) have been emerging as potential players in modern medicine with clinical applications ranging from therapeutic purposes to antimicrobial agents. However, before applications in medical agents, some in vitro studies sho...
Structural characterization of protein-protein interactions is essential for our ability to study life processes at the molecular level. Computational modeling of protein complexes (protein docking) is important as the source of their structure and a...
Salmonella is a leading source of bacterial foodborne illness in humans, causing gastroenteritis outbreaks with bacteraemia occurrences that can lead to clinical complications and death. Eggs, poultry and pig products are considered as the main carri...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Dec 18, 2018
Virtual (computational) high-throughput screening provides a strategy for prioritizing compounds for experimental screens, but the choice of virtual screening algorithm depends on the data set and evaluation strategy. We consider a wide range of liga...
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