New PDF release: New Developments in Medicinal Chemistry Volume 2

By Carlton Anthony Taft, Carlos Henrique Tomich de Paula da Silva

ISBN-10: 1608059545

ISBN-13: 9781608059546

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The most time consuming part of MD simulations are the non-bonded interactions. The potential functions calculations include Coulomb potential function and Lennard-Jones potential functions. Non-bonded interactions use a cutoff radius, which commonly does not exceed half the shortest box vector for grid search. This avoids interactions between particles and their images at the same time. Half the side length of the cell used for cubic simulations boxes. Ewald sums and reaction-field approaches can handle long-range interactions (strong decay with distance).

There may be predictive improvement requiring however human expertise and intervention. Computational approaches can assess the impact of water molecules on ligand binding. Pharmaceutical and manufacturing drug development spend considerable time to identify appropriate solvent to scale manufacturing. Desolvation penalty is important in drug design. There is a variety of models (explicit and implicit) to describe biomolecules in solution. When the problem is treated explicitly, electrostatic problems are investigated by averaging over a large number of systems configurations.

SIMULATIONS OF FREE ENERGIES We commonly characterize the interactions of most ligands with their binding sites in terms of binding affinities. They describe the strength with which a ligand, like a drug, binds to a receptor. The energy left once you have paid the tax to entropy is the free energy, which defines binding affinities. Enthalphy is the energy of interaction for a single binding pose orientation in the pocket. Enthalpy involves hydrogen bonds, polar interactions, van der Waals interactions.

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