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Rigorous Computational And Experimental Investigations On Mdm2/Mdmx-Targeted Linear And Macrocyclic Peptides, David J. Diller, Jon Swanson, Alexander S. Bayden, Chris J. Brown, Dawn Thean, David P. Lane, Anthony W. Patridge, Tomi K. Sawyer, Joseph Audie

Chemistry & Physics Faculty Publications

There is interest in peptide drug design, especially for targeting intracellular protein–protein interactions. Therefore, the experimental validation of a computational platform for enabling peptide drug design is of interest. Here, we describe our peptide drug design platform (CMDInventus) and demonstrate its use in modeling and predicting the structural and binding aspects of diverse peptides that interact with oncology targets MDM2/MDMX in comparison to both retrospective (pre-prediction) and prospective (post-prediction) data. In the retrospective study, CMDInventus modules (CMDpeptide, CMDboltzmann, CMDescore and CMDyscore) were used to accurately reproduce structural and binding data across multiple MDM2/MDMX data sets. In the prospective study, CMDescore, …