Computational Insights into Avidity of Polymeric Multivalent Binders.

ABSTRACT: Multivalent binding interactions are commonly found throughout biology to enhance weak monovalent binding such as between glycoligands and protein receptors. Designing multivalent polymers to bind to viruses and toxic proteins is a promising avenue for inhibiting their attachment and subsequent infection of cells. Several studies have focused on oligomeric multivalent inhibitors and how changing parameters such as ligand shape, size, linker length, and flexibility affect binding. However, experimental studies of how larger structural parameters of multivalent polymers, such as degree of polymerization, affect binding avidity to targets have mixed results, with some finding an improvement with longer polymers and some finding no effect. Here, we use Brownian dynamics simulations to provide

SUBMITTER: Zumbro E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731389 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature