Protein structure-based drug design: from docking to molecular dynamics

P Śledź, A Caflisch - Current opinion in structural biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•High-throughput docking of small molecules is very successful in hit identification,
particularly for screening mainly rigid fragments.•Classical force fields with implicit solvent …

Discovery of IDO1 inhibitors: from bench to bedside

GC Prendergast, WP Malachowski, JB DuHadaway… - Cancer research, 2017 - AACR
Small-molecule inhibitors of indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO1) are emerging at the
vanguard of experimental agents in oncology. Here, pioneers of this new drug class provide …

Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase and its therapeutic inhibition in cancer

GC Prendergast, WJ Malachowski, A Mondal… - International review of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The tryptophan catabolic enzyme indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO1) has attracted
enormous attention in driving cancer immunosuppression, neovascularization, and …

Kynurenines in the CNS: recent advances and new questions

L Vécsei, L Szalárdy, F Fülöp, J Toldi - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2013 - nature.com
Various pathologies of the central nervous system (CNS) are accompanied by alterations in
tryptophan metabolism. The main metabolic route of tryptophan degradation is the …

Role of indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase in health and disease

AWS Yeung, AC Terentis, NJC King… - Clinical …, 2015 - portlandpress.com
IDO1 (indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1) is a member of a unique class of mammalian haem
dioxygenases that catalyse the oxidative catabolism of the least-abundant essential amino …

Challenges in the discovery of indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) inhibitors

UF Röhrig, SR Majjigapu, P Vogel… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) as an attractive target for
anticancer therapy in 2003, the search for inhibitors has been intensely pursued both in …

p-Toluenesulfonic Acid Mediated 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of Nitroolefins with NaN3 for Synthesis of 4-Aryl-NH-1,2,3-triazoles

XJ Quan, ZH Ren, YY Wang, ZH Guan - Organic letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
A p-TsOH-mediated 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitroolefins and sodium azide for the
synthesis of 4-aryl-NH-1, 2, 3-triazoles has been developed. p-TsOH was discovered as a …

Cu (II)-mediated ortho C–H alkynylation of (hetero) arenes with terminal alkynes

M Shang, HL Wang, SZ Sun, HX Dai… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Cu (II)-promoted ortho alkynylation of arenes and heteroarenes with terminal alkynes has
been developed to prepare aryl alkynes. A variety of arenes and terminal alkynes bearing …

Discovery of bioactive molecules from CuAAC click-chemistry-based combinatorial libraries

X Wang, B Huang, X Liu, P Zhan - Drug Discovery Today, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Advances in the combination of the CuAAC reaction with direct screening.•Before
library assembly, the bioisosteric potential of 1, 2, 3-triazole should be confirmed.•The …

Important hydrogen bond networks in indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) inhibitor design revealed by crystal structures of imidazoleisoindole derivatives with …

YH Peng, SH Ueng, CT Tseng, MS Hung… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1), promoting immune escape of tumors, is a
therapeutic target for the cancer immunotherapy. A number of IDO1 inhibitors have been …