The compromise of virtual screening and its impact on drug discovery

O Slater, M Kontoyianni - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Docking and structure-based virtual screening (VS) have been standard
approaches in structure-based design for over two decades. However, our understanding of …

Modulators of calpain activity: inhibitors and activators as potential drugs

LE Dókus, M Yousef, Z Bánóczi - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: Calpains are intracellular Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteases with
15 known members in the enzyme family. They act as regulatory enzymes, their cleavage …

ADMETopt: a web server for ADMET optimization in drug design via scaffold hop**

H Yang, L Sun, Z Wang, W Li, G Liu… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Drug-likeness, comprising absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, and toxicity
(ADMET) properties, plays a significant role in early drug discovery. However, as for current …

Structure-Based Virtual Screening Protocol for in Silico Identification of Potential Thyroid Disrupting Chemicals Targeting Transthyretin

J Zhang, A Begum, K Brännström… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Thyroid disruption by xenobiotics is associated with a broad spectrum of severe adverse
outcomes. One possible molecular target of thyroid hormone disrupting chemicals (THDCs) …

A highly efficient sorbitol dehydrogenase from Gluconobacter oxydans G624 and improvement of its stability through immobilization

TS Kim, SKS Patel, C Selvaraj, WS Jung, CH Pan… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
A sorbitol dehydrogenase (GoSLDH) from Gluconobacter oxydans G624 (G. oxydans G624)
was expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3)-CodonPlus RIL. The complete 1455-bp …

[HTML][HTML] Structure insights of SARS-CoV-2 open state envelope protein and inhibiting through active phytochemical of ayurvedic medicinal plants from Withania …

RA Alharbi - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Coronaviruses have been causing pandemic situations across the globe for the past two
decades and the focus is on identifying suitable novel targets for antivirals and vaccine …

SARS-CoV-2 ORF8 dimerization and binding mode analysis with class I MHC: computational approaches to identify COVID-19 inhibitors

C Selvaraj, DC Dinesh, EM Pedone… - Briefings in …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
SARS-CoV-2 encodes eight accessory proteins, one of which, ORF8, has a poorly
conserved sequence with SARS-CoV and its role in viral pathogenicity has recently been …

In silico identification of natural product inhibitors against Octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (Oct4) to impede the mechanism of glioma stem cells

C Nayak, SK Singh - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (Oct4) is a core regulator in the retention of stemness,
invasive, and self-renewal properties in glioma initiating cells (GSCs) and its overexpression …

High-throughput screening and quantum mechanics for identifying potent inhibitors against Mac1 Domain of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp3

C Selvaraj, DC Dinesh, U Panwar… - IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SARS-CoV-2 encodes the Mac1 domain within the large nonstructural protein 3 (Nsp3),
which has an ADP-ribosylhydrolase activity conserved in other coronaviruses. The …

Structural insights into the binding mode of d-sorbitol with sorbitol dehydrogenase using QM-polarized ligand docking and molecular dynamics simulations

C Selvaraj, G Krishnasamy, SS Jagtap… - Biochemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gluconobacter oxydans is an organism involved in the incomplete oxidation mechanism of
many sugars and alcohols. G. oxydans is involved in the biotransformation of d-sorbitol to l …