National Natural Science Foundation of China (№ 29725203);State Key Program of Basic Ressearch of China (№ 1998051115)
AIM: To build a 3D-structural model of memapsin 2 (M2) protease for theoretical study and drug design. METHODS: Structural alignment was performed based on multiple and pairwise sequence alignment of three templates. ...
To construct the 3D-structural model of human kappa opioid receptor (HKOR) and study its interacting mechanism with dynorphin A( 1 - 8) (Dyn8). METHODS: Comparative molecular modeling was applied to build the 7 transm...
Project supported by the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 29790123 and 29725203)
AIM: To study the mechanism of interaction of CCR5 receptor with its antagonist TAK779. METHODS: Comparative molecular modeling has been used to develop the 3D-structural models of CCR5 receptor and its complex with T...
Project supported by the Key Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 29790123 and 29725203)
AIM: To build the three-dimensional structure of opioid receptor-like 1 (ORL1) receptor. METHODS: Structural elements of ORL1 receptor were predicted from sequence alignments of opioid and related receptors of G prote...
Project supported by the Key Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 29790123 and 29725203)
AIM: To study the mechanism of interaction of noci-ceptin and opioids with ORL1 receptor. METHODS: Molecular dynamics study was carried out before noci-ceptin was manually docked into the binding site of ORL1 receptor...
Project supported by the Key Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 29790123 and 29725203).
AIM: To do theoretical study about solvation effect and interaction mechanism of fentanyl analogs (FA) to μ opioid receptor (μOR). METHODS: Flexible docking (FlexiDock) was performed by using the possible active con...