J Comput Aided Mol Des. 2013 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Discover binding pathways using the sliding binding-box docking approach: application to binding pathways of oseltamivir to avian influenza H5N1 neuraminidase.
Tran DT, Le LT, Truong TN.
Source
Institute for Computational Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Abstract
Drug binding and unbinding are transient processes which are hardly observed by experiment and difficult to analyze by computational techniques. In this paper, we employed a cost-effective method called "pathway docking" in which molecular docking was used to screen ligand-receptor binding free energy surface to reveal possible paths of ligand approaching protein binding pocket. A case study was applied on oseltamivir, the key drug against influenza a virus. The equilibrium pathways identified by this method are found to be similar to those identified in prior studies using highly expensive computational approaches.
PMID:
23979194
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Discover binding pathways using the sliding binding-box docking approach: application to binding pathways of oseltamivir to avian influenza H5N1 neuraminidase.
Tran DT, Le LT, Truong TN.
Source
Institute for Computational Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Abstract
Drug binding and unbinding are transient processes which are hardly observed by experiment and difficult to analyze by computational techniques. In this paper, we employed a cost-effective method called "pathway docking" in which molecular docking was used to screen ligand-receptor binding free energy surface to reveal possible paths of ligand approaching protein binding pocket. A case study was applied on oseltamivir, the key drug against influenza a virus. The equilibrium pathways identified by this method are found to be similar to those identified in prior studies using highly expensive computational approaches.
PMID:
23979194
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]