Whether Molecular Dynamics Methods Can Explain Different Activities of Stereoisomers Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus or Not?
摘要
Abstract
The antiviral activity of monoterpene-aryl coumarin conjugates depends on the absolute configuration of the monoterpene moiety, which seems to be due to different arrangements of compounds at the binding site of the F-protein of respiratory syncytial virus - the supposed target for these compounds. Molecular dynamics and metadynamics methods make it possible to estimate the difference in the nature of the interaction between stereoisomers and key amino acid residues of the binding site and to explain their different antiviral activity.