| Abbreviation | Definition |
| APE1 | Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 |
| AR | Androgen receptor |
| ARE | Androgen-responsive element |
| BER | Base excision repair |
| CRPC | Castration-resistant prostate cancer |
| DBD | DNA-binding domain |
| DFT | Density functional theory |
| HOMO | Highest-occupied molecular orbital |
| LBD | Ligand-binding domain |
| LUMO | Lowest-unoccupied molecular orbital |
| MD | Molecular dynamics |
| NTD | N-terminal domain |
| PBC | Periodic boundary conditions |
| PME | Particle Mesh-Ewald |
| PPI | Protein-protein interaction |
| QM | Quantum mechanical |
| RMSD | Root mean-squared deviation |
| RMSF | Root-mean-square fluctuation |
| WT | Wild-type |