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ArticlePLoS computational biology2015

pMD-Membrane: A Method for Ligand Binding Site Identification in Membrane-Bound Proteins.

Priyanka Prakash, Abdallah Sayyed-Ahmad, Alemayehu A Gorfe

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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  1. Computational Ligand-Binding Site Prediction.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  8. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Lipid-Modified Signaling Proteins.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  10. Exploring the computational methods for protein-ligand binding site prediction.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2020
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Priyanka PrakashUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Abdallah Sayyed-AhmadUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Houston, Texas, United States of America.
Alemayehu A GorfeUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

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Nanoclusters of Lipid-anchored Proteins in Membranes: How and where they appearR01GM100078 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI GORFE, ALEMAYEHU A. · 2012 to 2016
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM100078NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM100078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Probe-based or mixed solvent molecular dynamics simulation is a useful approach for the identification and characterization of druggable sites in drug targets. However, thus far the method has been applied only to soluble proteins. A major reason for this is the potential effect of the probe molecules on membrane structure. We have developed a technique to overcome this limitation that entails modification of force field parameters to reduce a few pairwise non-bonded interactions between selected atoms of the probe molecules and bilayer lipids. We used the resulting technique, termed pMD-membrane, to identify allosteric ligand binding sites on the G12D and G13D oncogenic mutants of the K-Ras protein bound to a negatively charged lipid bilayer. In addition, we show that differences in probe occupancy can be used to quantify changes in the accessibility of druggable sites due to conformational changes induced by membrane binding or mutation.

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Models, ChemicalAlgorithmsBinding SitesCell MembraneLipid BilayersMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProtein Interaction Mappingras ProteinsSoftwareLipid Bilayersras Proteins

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PMID26506102
PMCPMC4623977

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