Recent Advances in Protein-Protein Docking.

Abstract:

:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play important roles in a variety of biological processes, and many PPIs have been regarded as biologically compelling targets for drug discovery. Extensive efforts have been made to develop feasible proteinprotein docking approaches to study PPIs in silico. Most of these approaches are composed of two stages: sampling and scoring. Sampling is used to generate a number of plausible protein-protein binding conformations and scoring can rank all those conformations. Due to large and flexible binding interface of PPI, determination of the near native structures is computationally expensive, and therefore computational efficiency is the most challenging issue in protein-protein docking. Here, we have reviewed the basic concepts and implementations of the sampling, scoring and acceleration algorithms in some established docking programs, and the limitations of these algorithms have been discussed. Then, some suggestions to the future directions for sampling, scoring and acceleration algorithms have been proposed. This review is expected to provide a better understanding of protein-protein docking and give some clues for the optimization and improvement of available approaches.

journal_name

Curr Drug Targets

journal_title

Current drug targets

authors

Zhang Q,Feng T,Xu L,Sun H,Pan P,Li Y,Li D,Hou T

doi

10.2174/1389450117666160112112640

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1586-1594

issue

14

eissn

1389-4501

issn

1873-5592

pii

CDT-EPUB-73008

journal_volume

17

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