Chapter 1 Energy of Intermolecular Interactions in Drug-Receptor Complex Formation
Chapter 2 Methods for Studying Drug-Receptor Binding
Chapter 3 Methods for Drug Discovery Research
Chapter 4 Thermodynamics of Drug-Receptor Complex Formation
Chapter 5 Effect of conformation entropy on affinity of specific ligands
Chapter 6 Kinetics of Drug-Receptor Complex Formation
Chapter 7 Distant and Contact Interactions of Drugs with Specific and Non-specific Receptors
Chapter 8 Influence of bound water on interaction of the chemical groups in drugs and receptors
Chapter 9 Information Required for Receptor Recognition
Chapter 10 Agonists and Antagonists
Chapter 11. Non-selective Drugs
Chapter 12 Search Paths for Novel Therapeutics
Biography
Mikhail Borisovich Darkhovskiy graduated from Moscow State University in 1996 with a major in Quantum Chemistry. In 2005 he earned a PhD in Chemistry and Solid-State Physics under the supervision of Dr. Andrei Thougreeff. His research was in electronic structure and transformation of spin- isomers of iron and cobalt complexes in spin transitions using the QM/ MM effective crystal field method. Together with Professor Dukhovich, he investigated the factors involved in molecular recognition in “ligand–receptor” systems, the influence of water on complex strength, and conformational entropy as a hidden factor for complex formation. Currently, he works in the biotech startup InterX (a subsidiary of NeoTX company), participating in the development of methods for the accurate prediction of compounds’ binding affinity to proteins. His awards include the INTAS Young Scientist award, and, Emory University Visiting Scientist award (Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation Fellowship).
