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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

Achieving Chemical Accuracy in Cyclodextrin Host-Guest Binding via Integrative Atomistic Modelling.

Xiaohui Wang, Linqiong Qiu, Hongyu Wang, Wenting Tang, Jiayang Leng, John Z H Zhang, Piero Procacci, Zhaoxi Sun

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Xiaohui WangFaculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, 518107, China.
Linqiong QiuFaculty of Biosciences, Taizhou Technician College, Zhejiang, 318000, China.
Hongyu WangFaculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, 518107, China.
Wenting TangBeijing Key Laboratory of Digital Media, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Jiayang LengDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, China.
John Z H ZhangFaculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, 518107, China.
Piero ProcacciDipartimento di Chimica "Ugo Schiff", Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via della Lastruccia 3, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019, Italy.
Zhaoxi SunFaculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, 518107, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-7797

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 21933010National Natural Science Foundation of China 22250710136National Natural Science Foundation of China 22333006National Natural Science Foundation of China 92270001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyclodextrins are amphiphilic macromolecular containers that are particularly valuable in applications ranging from biomedicine to environmental science. Despite years of development of computational techniques for cyclodextrin host-guest coordination, accurate modelling of these supramolecular systems remains challenging. In this work, an integrative computational technique is presented to solve this problem. The protocol integrates a force-field recalibration procedure, equilibrium enhanced sampling, nonequilibrium Hamiltonian switching, a work convolution algorithm, a series of finite-size corrections, and energy decomposition analysis. A large-scale survey of 222 CD host-guest systems is performed to demonstrate that the protocol enables the fast calculation of cyclodextrin host-guest binding strength without compromise in accuracy, an unbiased capture of cyclodextrin dynamics in the free CD, and the multi-modal behavior of the coordination patterns, and further the identification of the physicochemical driving force stabilizing host-guest complexes. Especially, the protocol consistently provides accurate results for various systems while conventional transferable force fields systematically fail for larger and more flexible 𝛾-CD. It thus opens new opportunities for high-throughput screening and rational design across diverse macrocyclic host families.

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binding Modecyclodextrinforce field developmenthost‐guest chemistrynonequilibrium fast switching

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PMID41391034
PMCPMC12915143

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