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    Complexity of Some Interesting (Chemical) Graphs

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    Complexity of some interesting polycyclic graphs is expressed in terms of the corresponding spanning trees. Graphs considered were a selection of all connected graphs with four and five vertices, graphs composed of two parts, or more parts, connected by a single edge, the Petersen graph, the Blanuša graph, the Desargues-Levy graph and the Schlegel graph of buckminsterfullerene

    Complexity of Some Interesting (Chemical) Graphs

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    Complexity of some interesting polycyclic graphs is expressed in terms of the corresponding spanning trees. Graphs considered were a selection of all connected graphs with four and five vertices, graphs composed of two parts, or more parts, connected by a single edge, the Petersen graph, the Blanuša graph, the Desargues-Levy graph and the Schlegel graph of buckminsterfullerene

    Predicting GPCR Promiscuity Using Binding Site Features

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    G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent a large family of signaling proteins that includes many therapeutic targets. GPCR ligands include odorants, tastants, and neurotransmitters and vary in size and properties. Dramatic chemical diversity may occur even among ligands of the same receptor. Our goal is to unravel the structural and chemical features that determine GPCRs’ promiscuity toward their ligands. We perform statistical analysis using more than 30 descriptors related to the sequence, physicochemical, structural, and energetic properties of the GPCR binding siteswe find that the chemical variability of antagonists significantly correlates with the binding site hydrophobicity and anticorrelates with the number of hydrogen bond donors in the binding site. The number of disulfide bridges in the extracellular region of a receptor anticorrelates with the range of molecular weights of its antagonists, highlighting the role of the entrance pathway in determining the size selectivity for GPCR antagonists. The predictive capability of the model is successfully validated using a separate set of GPCRs, using either X-ray structures or homology models
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