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The emergence of drug-resistant strains of  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  ( Mtb ) impedes the End TB Strategy by the World Health Organization aiming for zero deaths, disease, and suffering at the hands of tuberculosis (TB). Mutations within anti-TB drug targets play a major role in conferring drug resistance within  Mtb ; hence, computational methods and tools are being used to understand the mechanisms by which they facilitate drug resistance. In this article, computational techniques such as molecular docking and molecular dynamics are applied to explore point mutations and their roles in affecting binding affinities for anti-TB drugs, often times lowering the protein’s affinity for the drug. Advances and adoption of computational techniques, chemoinformatics, and bioinformatics in molecular biosciences and resources supporting machine learning techniques are in abundance, and this has seen a spike in its use to predict mutations in  Mtb . This article highlights the importance of molecular modeling in deducing how point mutations in proteins confer resistance through destabilizing binding sites of drugs and effectively inhibiting the drug action.

Application of Computational Methods in Understanding Mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Drug Resistance