Structure-based virtual screening for drug discovery: principles, applications and recent advances

E Lionta, G Spyrou, DK Vassilatis… - Current topics in …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Structure-based drug discovery (SBDD) is becoming an essential tool in assisting fast and
cost-efficient lead discovery and optimization. The application of rational, structure-based …

Next generation 3D pharmacophore modeling

D Schaller, D Šribar, T Noonan, L Deng… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D pharmacophore models are three‐dimensional ensembles of chemically
defined interactions of a ligand in its bioactive conformation. They represent an elegant way …

Role of molecular dynamics and related methods in drug discovery

M De Vivo, M Masetti, G Bottegoni… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular dynamics (MD) and related methods are close to becoming routine computational
tools for drug discovery. Their main advantage is in explicitly treating structural flexibility and …

The FTMap family of web servers for determining and characterizing ligand-binding hot spots of proteins

D Kozakov, LE Grove, DR Hall, T Bohnuud… - Nature protocols, 2015 - nature.com
FTMap is a computational map** server that identifies binding hot spots of
macromolecules—ie, regions of the surface with major contributions to the ligand-binding …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the computational methods for protein-ligand binding site prediction

J Zhao, Y Cao, L Zhang - Computational and structural biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Proteins participate in various essential processes in vivo via interactions with other
molecules. Identifying the residues participating in these interactions not only provides …

How beyond rule of 5 drugs and clinical candidates bind to their targets

BC Doak, J Zheng, D Dobritzsch… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
To improve discovery of drugs for difficult targets, the opportunities of chemical space
beyond the rule of 5 (bRo5) were examined by retrospective analysis of a comprehensive …

Inside the human cancer tyrosine phosphatome

SG Julien, N Dubé, S Hardy, ML Tremblay - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2011 - nature.com
Members of the protein tyrosine phosphatase (Ptp) family dephosphorylate target proteins
and counter the activities of protein tyrosine kinases that are involved in cellular …

Investigating cryptic binding sites by molecular dynamics simulations

A Kuzmanic, GR Bowman… - Accounts of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus This Account highlights recent advances and discusses major challenges in
investigations of cryptic (hidden) binding sites by molecular simulations. Cryptic binding …

MDpocket: open-source cavity detection and characterization on molecular dynamics trajectories

P Schmidtke, A Bidon-Chanal, FJ Luque… - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: A variety of pocket detection algorithms are now freely or commercially available
to the scientific community for the analysis of static protein structures. However, since …

[HTML][HTML] Oncogenic mutations counteract intrinsic disorder in the EGFR kinase and promote receptor dimerization

Y Shan, MP Eastwood, X Zhang, ET Kim, A Arkhipov… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
The mutation and overexpression of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are
associated with the development of a variety of cancers, making this prototypical …