Search Results - "McGee, Dwight"
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Alchemical Binding Free Energy Calculations in AMBER20: Advances and Best Practices for Drug Discovery
Published in Journal of chemical information and modeling (23-11-2020)“…Predicting protein–ligand binding affinities and the associated thermodynamics of biomolecular recognition is a primary objective of structure-based drug…”
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MMPBSA.py: An Efficient Program for End-State Free Energy Calculations
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (11-09-2012)“…MM-PBSA is a post-processing end-state method to calculate free energies of molecules in solution. MMPBSA.py is a program written in Python for streamlining…”
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Identification of Zika Virus Inhibitors Using Homology Modeling and Similarity-Based Screening to Target Glycoprotein E
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (06-10-2020)“…The World Health Organization has designated Zika virus (ZIKV) as a dangerous, mosquito-borne pathogen that can cause severe developmental defects. The primary…”
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Predicting the structural basis of targeted protein degradation by integrating molecular dynamics simulations with structural mass spectrometry
Published in Nature communications (06-10-2022)“…Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is a promising approach in drug discovery for degrading proteins implicated in diseases. A key step in this process is the…”
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Benchmarking Adaptive Steered Molecular Dynamics (ASMD) on CHARMM Force Fields
Published in Chemphyschem (05-09-2022)“…The potentials of mean force (PMFs) along the end‐to‐end distance of two different helical peptides have been obtained and benchmarked using the adaptive…”
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pH-REMD Simulations Indicate That the Catalytic Aspartates of HIV‑1 Protease Exist Primarily in a Monoprotonated State
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. B (06-11-2014)“…The protonation state of the catalytic aspartates of HIV-1 protease (HIVPR) is atypical and as a result is the subject of much debate. Modeling of the correct…”
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Evaluation of production parameters and health of dairy cows treated with pegbovigrastim in the transition period
Published in Preventive veterinary medicine (01-03-2020)“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of pegbovigrastim injection (Imrestor, Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, IN) on production parameters and…”
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Structure-based identification of inhibitors targeting obstruction of the HIVgp41 N-heptad repeat trimer
Published in Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters (15-07-2017)“…[Display omitted] The viral protein HIVgp41 is an attractive and validated drug target that proceeds through a sequence of conformational changes crucial for…”
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Defective Hydrophobic Sliding Mechanism and Active Site Expansion in HIV‑1 Protease Drug Resistant Variant Gly48Thr/Leu89Met: Mechanisms for the Loss of Saquinavir Binding Potency
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (20-01-2015)“…HIV drug resistance continues to emerge; consequently, there is an urgent need to develop next generation antiretroviral therapeutics. Here we report on the…”
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Preliminary molecular dynamic simulations of the estrogen receptor alpha ligand binding domain from antagonist to apo
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (01-06-2008)“…Estrogen receptors (ER) are known as nuclear receptors. They exist in the cytoplasm of human cells and serves as a DNA binding transcription factor that…”
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Investigating the conformational dynamics of HIV-1 protease through molecular dynamics
Published 01-01-2013“…Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), is still one of the most prominent diseases in the world…”
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Investigating the conformational dynamics of HIV-1 protease through molecular dynamics
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