selectivity Archive

  • Application of a novel in silico high throughput screen to identify selective inhibitors for protein–protein interactions

    Application of a novel in silico high throughput screen to identify selective inhibitors for protein–protein interactions

    Increasing numbers of target protein structures available for computational studies makes the structure-based screening paradigm more attractive for initial hit indentification. We have developed a novel in silico screening methodology incorporating Molecular Mechanics (MM)/implicit solvent methods to evaluate binding free energies and applied this technology...

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  • Drug resistance: evolution in action

    Drug resistance: evolution in action

    Introduction of drugs puts an evolutionary pressure on viruses and makes the viral proteins evolve. On the other hand, the change in the protein structure should be compatible with the protein function. The degree of the protein sequence conservativity is thus a measure of the...

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  • Docking selectivity: Additive vs. non-additive force field

    Docking selectivity: Additive vs. non-additive force field

    The free binding energy (F) of a small molecule and a protein is a non-additive complex function of individual interatomic interactions. There are two major contributing quantities leading to non-additivity in F: the electrostatic energy, and the entropy. A common approach to molecular docking is...

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