Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Protein-peptide association kinetics beyond the seconds timescale from atomistic simulations

  • Fabian Paul,
  • Christoph Wehmeyer,
  • Esam T. Abualrous,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Michael D. Crabtree,
  • Johannes Schöneberg,
  • Jane Clarke,
  • Christian Freund,
  • Thomas R. Weikl,
  • Frank Noé

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01163-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Binding and unbinding kinetics are important determinants of protein-protein or small molecule protein functional interactions that can guide drug development. Here the authors exploit the multi-ensemble Markov model framework to develop a computational approach that allows the estimation of binding kinetics reaching into the seconds timescale.