G protein-coupled receptors: structure-and function-based drug discovery

D Yang, Q Zhou, V Labroska, S Qin… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the most successful therapeutic target families, G protein-coupled receptors
(GPCRs) have experienced a transformation from random ligand screening to knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Antibody structure and function: the basis for engineering therapeutics

ML Chiu, DR Goulet, A Teplyakov, GL Gilliland - Antibodies, 2019 - mdpi.com
Antibodies and antibody-derived macromolecules have established themselves as the
mainstay in protein-based therapeutic molecules (biologics). Our knowledge of the structure …

ProLIF: a library to encode molecular interactions as fingerprints

C Bouysset, S Fiorucci - Journal of cheminformatics, 2021 - Springer
Interaction fingerprints are vector representations that summarize the three-dimensional
nature of interactions in molecular complexes, typically formed between a protein and a …

Common activation mechanism of class A GPCRs

Q Zhou, D Yang, M Wu, Y Guo, W Guo, L Zhong, X Cai… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Class A G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) influence virtually every aspect of human
physiology. Understanding receptor activation mechanism is critical for discovering novel …

Computational design of soluble and functional membrane protein analogues

CA Goverde, M Pacesa, N Goldbach, LJ Dornfeld… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
De novo design of complex protein folds using solely computational means remains a
substantial challenge. Here we use a robust deep learning pipeline to design complex folds …

Synthon-based ligand discovery in virtual libraries of over 11 billion compounds

AA Sadybekov, AV Sadybekov, Y Liu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Structure-based virtual ligand screening is emerging as a key paradigm for early
drug discovery owing to the availability of high-resolution target structures,,–and ultra-large …

Neutrophils to the ROScue: mechanisms of NADPH oxidase activation and bacterial resistance

GT Nguyen, ER Green, J Mecsas - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by NADPH oxidase play an important role in
antimicrobial host defense and inflammation. Their deficiency in humans results in recurrent …

RCSB Protein Data Bank: Enabling biomedical research and drug discovery

DS Goodsell, C Zardecki, L Di Costanzo… - Protein …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Analyses of publicly available structural data reveal interesting insights into the impact of the
three‐dimensional (3D) structures of protein targets important for discovery of new drugs …

Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold

G Kim, S Lee, E Levy Karin, H Kim, Y Moriwaki… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Since its public release in 2021, AlphaFold2 (AF2) has made investigating biological
questions, by using predicted protein structures of single monomers or full complexes, a …

How ligands illuminate GPCR molecular pharmacology

D Wacker, RC Stevens, BL Roth - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which are modulated by a variety of endogenous and
synthetic ligands, represent the largest family of druggable targets in the human genome …