- Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD)
- DNA-Encoded Library Technology (DELT)
- Fragment-Based Screening
- High Content Screening (HCS)
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High Throughput Screening (HTS)
- Automated HTS Platform
- Biochemical assays in Hit Characterization
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Biophysical Assays in Hit Characterization
- BLI for Affinity-based Hit Screening
- CD Spectrometry for Protein Structure Determination
- ITC for Binding Assessment
- MS for Structure Confirmation
- MT for Binding Affinity Measurement
- NMR Spectrometry for Tareget identification and Characterization
- SPR Spectrometrys for Structure Determination
- TSA for Protein's Stability Evaluation
- Cellular assays in Hit Characterization
- Drug Repurposing
- Hit Screening
- HTS Assay Development
- HTS Compounds Libraries
- HTS Data Management
- Virtual Screening (VS)
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- Experienced and qualified scientists functioning as project managers or study director
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Protein Carbohydrate Docking
INQUIRYProtein-carbohydrate interactions are of vital importance in a variety of biological processes (immunity, metabolism, and immune response) since carbohydrates are usually involved in many essential signaling pathway. Compared to some biophysical approaches in which it's difficult to study these interactions, computational molecular modeling techniques have been widely applied to offer an alternative method for the study of protein-carbohydrate recognition and specificity.
Fig.1 Example of best pose of the protein, the catalytic site, and potential chemical interactions. (Luna-Vital,D.; et al. 2017)Our Services of Protein Carbohydrate Docking
Docking
We have designed a docking procedure to explore and identify the orientations and positions of a ligand into a protein cavity.
Calculations and clustering
We then perform the calculation and examination of the stability of complexes by using the energy function for carbohydrates to cluster the binding poses and explore the most favorable complex structure.
Optimization
We carry out a relative short molecular dynamics simulation run to further evaluate the stability of the complexes and deliver the optimal structure model.
Our Abilities of Protein Carbohydrate Docking
Our teams apply the docking approach to connect the carbohydrates to the protein binding site using rotations and variations of virtual bonds via dummy atoms.
At BOC Sciences, experiment-derived constraints are available in our docking services to restrict the search space for the sugar as well as the protein molecule.
Our scientists have introduced a molecular mechanical force field to perform conformational analysis of oligosaccharides and this method is also compatible with the subsequent process of protein simulation.
We combine a novel docking algorithm with scoring which is specific to carbohydrate and energy functions to identify accurate ligand poses with high accurate.
Reference
Luna-Vital,D.; et al. Anthocyanins from Purple Corn Ameliorated Tumor Necrosis Factor-α-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes via Activation of Insulin Signaling and Enhanced GLUT4 Translocation. Scientific Reports. 2017, 7(1): 3165.
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