1. A review of biophysical strategies to investigate protein-ligand binding: What have we employed?
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Zhao Z, Zhao L, Kong C, Zhou J, and Zhou F
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- Ligands, Biophysical Phenomena, Biophysics methods, Mass Spectrometry, Humans, Protein Binding, Proteins chemistry, Proteins metabolism, Thermodynamics
- Abstract
The protein-ligand binding frequently occurs in living organisms and plays a crucial role in the execution of the functions of proteins and drugs. It is also an indispensable part of drug discovery and screening. While the methods for investigating protein-ligand binding are diverse, each has its own objectives, strengths, and limitations, which all influence the choice of method. Many studies concentrate on one or a few specific methods, suggesting that comprehensive summaries are lacking. Therefore in this review, these methods are comprehensively summarized and are discussed in detail: prediction and simulation methods, thermal and thermodynamic methods, spectroscopic methods, methods of determining three-dimensional structures of the complex, mass spectrometry-based methods and others. It is also important to integrate these methods based on the specific objectives of the research. With the aim of advancing pharmaceutical research, this review seeks to deepen the understanding of the protein-ligand binding process., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Feng Zhou reports financial support was provided by the National Key Research and Development Program for the 14th Five-Year Plan of China. If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2024
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