Method of rational drug design based on AB initio computer simul

Details Method of rational drug design based on AB initio computer simul Method of rational drug design based on AB initio computer simul

1995-04-24

1996-11-26

Trammell, James P.

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364500, 364578, G06F 1750

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055792502

ABSTRACT:
A method of rational drug design includes simulating polypeptides in a way that predicts the most probable secondary and/or tertiary structures of a polypeptide, e.g., an oligopeptide, without any presumptions as to the conformation of the underlying primary or secondary structure. The method involves computer simulation of the polypeptide, and more particularly simulating a real-size primary structure in an aqueous environment, shrinking the size of the polypeptide isobarically and isothermally, and expanding the simulated polypeptide to its real size in selected time periods. A useful set of tools, termed Balaji plots, energy conformational maps, and probability maps, assist in identifying those portions of the predicted peptide structure that are most flexible or most rigid. The rational design of novel compounds, useful as drugs, e.g., bioactive peptidomimetic compounds, and constrained analogs thereof, is thus made possible using the simulation methods and tools of the described invention.

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