Computational approaches streamlining drug discovery

AV Sadybekov, V Katritch - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Computer-aided drug discovery has been around for decades, although the past few years
have seen a tectonic shift towards embracing computational technologies in both academia …

Therapeutic strategies for COVID-19: progress and lessons learned

G Li, R Hilgenfeld, R Whitley, E De Clercq - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated tremendous
efforts to develop therapeutic strategies that target severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Structure-based drug design with equivariant diffusion models

A Schneuing, C Harris, Y Du, K Didi… - Nature Computational …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to design small-molecule ligands that
bind with high affinity and specificity to pre-determined protein targets. Generative SBDD …

Accelerating antiviral drug discovery: lessons from COVID-19

A von Delft, MD Hall, AD Kwong, LA Purcell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a wave of rapid and
collaborative drug discovery efforts took place in academia and industry, culminating in …

PARP14 and PARP9/DTX3L regulate interferon-induced ADP-ribosylation

P Kar, C Chatrin, N Đukić, O Suyari, M Schuller… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
PARP-catalysed ADP-ribosylation (ADPr) is important in regulating various cellular
pathways. Until recently, PARP-dependent mono-ADP-ribosylation has been poorly …

Fluorine-a small magic bullet atom in the drug development: perspective to FDA approved and COVID-19 recommended drugs

G Chandra, DV Singh, GK Mahato, S Patel - Chemical Papers, 2023 - Springer
During the last twenty years, organic fluorination chemistry established itself as an important
tool to get a biologically active compound. This belief can be supported by the fact that every …

Room-temperature crystallography reveals altered binding of small-molecule fragments to PTP1B

TS Mehlman, JT Biel, SM Azeem, ER Nelson… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Much of our current understanding of how small-molecule ligands interact with proteins
stems from X-ray crystal structures determined at cryogenic (cryo) temperature. For proteins …

The art and science of molecular docking

JM Paggi, A Pandit, RO Dror - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Molecular docking has become an essential part of a structural biologist's and medicinal
chemist's toolkits. Given a chemical compound and the three-dimensional structure of a …

Chemoenzymatic and synthetic approaches to investigate aspartate-and glutamate-ADP-ribosylation

K Tashiro, S Wijngaarden, J Mohapatra… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report here chemoenzymatic and fully synthetic methodologies to modify aspartate and
glutamate side chains with ADP-ribose at specific sites on peptides. Structural analysis of …

Kee** pace with the explosive growth of chemical libraries with structure‐based virtual screening

J Kuan, M Radaeva, A Avenido… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent efforts to synthetically expand drug‐like chemical libraries have led to the
emergence of unprecedently large virtual databases. This surge of make‐on‐demand …