So far, when I looked on molecular docking papers, it often involves using a protein as the receptor molecule, with ligands like another protein, nucleic acids, or small molecules. I have also found the application of RNA or DNA as the receptor molecules, docked against another RNA or DNA, and small molecules. However, I never (yet) found a paper referring of using other polymers as receptor molecules, like lipid or nanocarrier polymers (like chitosan or cellulose or even carbon nanotube). Is there a reason that nobody does that? Or some research groups have already done that? I am just curious.
These things are already mentioned in many papers. We recently did the same analysis against SARS CoV-2
@Shaban: If you dock the molecules against SARS-CoV-2, you normally dock them against the viral protein or nucleic acids. For that, many research has do that work. However, not the other biopolymer molecules I mentioned in the description
Protein itself polymer of aminoacid as linkage between c and n terminal.
Protein as receptor bind with ligand in many papers.
Protein polymer of nanolipid Or phospholipid.
In all protein ligand bind is example of polymer
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