Protein-Ligand Interactions: Recent Advances in Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics
This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Informatics".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Protein–ligand interactions have remained a broad and important field of study over many years. In living organisms, chemically diverse ligands interacting with proteins can play many different roles, such as enzyme substrates, allosteric effectors, signal transmitters, etc. Inorganic ions, small organic molecules, biopolymers, and synthetic polymers are all able to interact with proteins. Rapidly improving biophysical and computational techniques have allowed for the obtainment of quantitative characteristics of protein–ligand interactions, including ligand affinity, kinetics of binding, and the structure of complexes. These data are necessary for fundamental biology, drug discovery, the development of personalized medicine, biotechnology, and food processing.
The present Special Issue entitled “Protein–Ligand Interactions: Recent Advances in Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics” aims to cover the multidisciplinary research results at the intersection of physics, biology, chemistry, computer science, medicine, and/or materials science.
This Special Issue is supervised by Prof. Dr. Yuriy F. Zuev, Prof. Dr. Igor Sedov, and assisted by Dr. Alexandra Kusova.
Prof. Dr. Yuriy F. Zuev
Dr. Igor Sedov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- protein–ligand interactions
- enzyme–substrate recognition
- signaling molecules and receptors
- polysaccharide–protein complexation
- allosteric effectors
- biophysical techniques
- structural bioinformatics
- rational drug design
- target discovery
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Published Papers
Int. J. Mol. Sci. - ISSN 1422-0067