Protein Binding

On the Difficulty to Rescore Hits from Ultralarge Docking Screens.

Docking-based virtual screening tools customized to mine ultralarge chemical spaces are consistently reported to yield both higher hit rates and more potent ligands than that …

Sindt, F.
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Large scale investigation of GPCR molecular dynamics data uncovers allosteric sites and lateral gateways.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a functionally diverse protein family and are targets for a broad spectrum of pharmaceuticals.

Aranda-García, D.
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CACHE Challenge #1: Targeting the WDR Domain of LRRK2, A Parkinson's Disease Associated Protein.

The CACHE challenges are a series of prospective benchmarking exercises to evaluate progress in the field of computational hit-finding.

Li, F.
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Subpocket Similarity-Based Hit Identification for Challenging Targets: Application to the WDR Domain of LRRK2.

We herewith applied a priori a generic hit identification method (POEM) for difficult targets of known three-dimensional structure, relying on the simple knowledge of …

Eguida, M.
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Benchmarking AlphaFold-Generated Structures of Chemokine-Chemokine Receptor Complexes.

AlphaFold and AlphaFold-Multimer have become two essential tools for the modeling of unknown structures of proteins and protein complexes.

Urvas, L.
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Structural Insights into Molecular Recognition and Receptor Activation in Chemokine-Chemokine Receptor Complexes.

The chemokine system is a key player in the functioning of the immune system and a sought-after target for drug candidates.

Urvas, L.
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Estimating the Similarity between Protein Pockets.

With the exponential increase in publicly available protein structures, the comparison of protein binding sites naturally emerged as a scientific topic to explain observations or …

Eguida, M.
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On the Frustration to Predict Binding Affinities from Protein-Ligand Structures with Deep Neural Networks.

Accurate prediction of binding affinities from protein-ligand atomic coordinates remains a major challenge in early stages of drug discovery.

Volkov, M.
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Modeling of CCR5 Recognition by HIV-1 gp120: How the Viral Protein Exploits the Conformational Plasticity of the Coreceptor.

The chemokine receptor CCR5 is a key player in HIV-1 infection.

Jacquemard, C.
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True Accuracy of Fast Scoring Functions to Predict High-Throughput Screening Data from Docking Poses: The Simpler the Better.

Hundreds of fast scoring functions have been developed over the last 20 years to predict binding free energies from three-dimensional structures of protein-ligand complexes.

Tran-Nguyen, V.
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