Binding site detection and druggability prediction of protein targets for structure-based drug design

Y Yuan, J Pei, L Lai - Current pharmaceutical design, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
Assessing whether a protein structure is a good target or not before actually doing structure-
based drug design on it is an important step to speed up the ligand discovery process. This …

Identifying and characterizing binding sites and assessing druggability

TA Halgren - Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2009 - ACS Publications
Identification and characterization of binding sites is key in the process of structure-based
drug design. In some cases there may not be any information about the binding site for a …

CavityPlus: a web server for protein cavity detection with pharmacophore modelling, allosteric site identification and covalent ligand binding ability prediction

Y Xu, S Wang, Q Hu, S Gao, X Ma, W Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
CavityPlus is a web server that offers protein cavity detection and various functional
analyses. Using protein three-dimensional structural information as the input, CavityPlus …

De novo design: balancing novelty and confined chemical space

PS Kutchukian, EI Shakhnovich - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Importance of the field: De novo drug design serves as a tool for the discovery of new
ligands for macromolecular targets as well as optimization of known ligands. Recently …

Computational approaches to identifying and characterizing protein binding sites for ligand design

S Henrich, OMH Salo‐Ahen, B Huang… - Journal of Molecular …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Given the three‐dimensional structure of a protein, how can one find the sites where other
molecules might bind to it? Do these sites have the properties necessary for high affinity …

AADS - An Automated Active Site Identification, Docking, and Scoring Protocol for Protein Targets Based on Physicochemical Descriptors

T Singh, D Biswas, B Jayaram - Journal of chemical information …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We report here a robust automated active site detection, docking, and scoring (AADS)
protocol for proteins with known structures. The active site finder identifies all cavities in a …

Rfdt: A rotation forest-based predictor for predicting drug-target interactions using drug structure and protein sequence information

L Wang, ZH You, X Chen, X Yan, G Liu… - Current Protein and …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Identification of interaction between drugs and target proteins plays an
important role in discovering new drug candidates. However, through the experimental …

Prediction of drug–target interaction networks from the integration of protein sequences and drug chemical structures

FR Meng, ZH You, X Chen, Y Zhou, JY An - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Knowledge of drug–target interaction (DTI) plays an important role in discovering new drug
candidates. Unfortunately, there are unavoidable shortcomings; including the time …

Drug-like density: a method of quantifying the “bindability” of a protein target based on a very large set of pockets and drug-like ligands from the Protein Data Bank

RP Sheridan, VN Maiorov, MK Holloway… - Journal of chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
One approach to estimating the “chemical tractability” of a candidate protein target where we
know the atomic resolution structure is to examine the physical properties of potential …

Lessons for fragment library design: analysis of output from multiple screening campaigns

IJ Chen, RE Hubbard - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2009 - Springer
Over the past 8 years, we have developed, refined and applied a fragment based discovery
approach to a range of protein targets. Here we report computational analyses of various …