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pWe performed molecular dynamics simulation of the dimeric SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2) main protease (Mpro) to examine the binding dynamics of small molecular ligands Seven HIV inhibitors, darunavir, indinavir, lopinavir, nelfinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir, and tipranavir, were used as the potential lead drugs to investigate access to the drug binding sites in Mpro The frequently accessed sites on Mpro were classified based on contacts between the ligands and the protein, and the differences in site distributions of the encounter complex were observed among the ligands All seven ligands showed binding to the active site at least twice in 28 simulations of 200 ns each We further investigated the variations in the complex structure of the active site with the ligands, using microsecond order simulations Results revealed a wide variation in the shapes of the binding sites and binding poses of the ligands Additionally, the C-terminal region of the other chain often interacted with the ligands and the active site Collectively, these findings indicate the importance of dynamic sampling of protein- ligand complexes and suggest the possibilities of further drug optimisations brrr pRaw trajectory data analysed in this paper and movie examples are available at the zenodo repository br/ / / / / / /div
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