Flap Dynamics in Aspartic Proteases : A Computational Perspective
(2016) In Chemical Biology and Drug Design 88(2). p.159-177- Abstract
Recent advances in biochemistry and drug design have placed proteases as one of the critical target groups for developing novel small-molecule inhibitors. Among all proteases, aspartic proteases have gained significant attention due to their role in HIV/AIDS, malaria, Alzheimer's disease, etc. The binding cleft is covered by one or two β-hairpins (flaps) which need to be opened before a ligand can bind. After binding, the flaps close to retain the ligand in the active site. Development of computational tools has improved our understanding of flap dynamics and its role in ligand recognition. In the past decade, several computational approaches, for example molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, coarse-grained simulations, replica-exchange... (More)
Recent advances in biochemistry and drug design have placed proteases as one of the critical target groups for developing novel small-molecule inhibitors. Among all proteases, aspartic proteases have gained significant attention due to their role in HIV/AIDS, malaria, Alzheimer's disease, etc. The binding cleft is covered by one or two β-hairpins (flaps) which need to be opened before a ligand can bind. After binding, the flaps close to retain the ligand in the active site. Development of computational tools has improved our understanding of flap dynamics and its role in ligand recognition. In the past decade, several computational approaches, for example molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, coarse-grained simulations, replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) and metadynamics, have been used to understand flap dynamics and conformational motions associated with flap movements. This review is intended to summarize the computational progress towards understanding the flap dynamics of proteases and to be a reference for future studies in this field.
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- Mahanti, Mukul LU ; Bhakat, Soumendranath LU ; Nilsson, Ulf J. LU and Söderhjelm, Pär LU
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- 2016-08-01
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- keywords
- aspartic protease, beta amino secretase, flap, HIV protease, plasmepsin, molecular modelling, Protease
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- Chemical Biology and Drug Design
- volume
- 88
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
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- pmid:26872937
- pmid:26872937
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- 1747-0285
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- 10.1111/cbdd.12745
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- English
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- yes
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title = {{Flap Dynamics in Aspartic Proteases : A Computational Perspective}},
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