GPCRs: thinking in 3D - MMS

Supervised Molecular Dynamics (SuMD)

Summary:

We have developed a helpful approach to simulate a receptor-ligand recognition pathway based on GPU-driven membrane molecular dynamics simulation in an appreciable short time scale. Combining two very well known and consolidated computational approaches such as molecular dynamics and an a tabu-like algorithm to supervise the evolution of receptor-ligand trajectory, we are able to accurately completely explore the receptor-ligand event in a nanosecond time scale. This approach is also very useful to analyze both orthosteric an allosteric binding events broadening our perspectives in several scientific areas from molecular pharmacology to drug discovery.

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Reference:

Sabbadin D., Moro S. J Chem Inf Model 54, 372-6 (2014)

Cuzzolin A. et al. J Chem Inf Model 56, 687-705 (2016)