Small molecules, big targets: drug discovery faces the protein–protein interaction challenge

DE Scott, AR Bayly, C Abell, J Skidmore - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2016 - nature.com
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are of pivotal importance in the regulation of biological
systems and are consequently implicated in the development of disease states. Recent work …

Modulators of protein–protein interactions

LG Milroy, TN Grossmann, S Hennig… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Since Hedin's characterization of trypsin and antitrypsin in 1906,(1) arguably the first
account of a regulatory protein–protein interaction (PPI), contemporary understanding of …

How proteins bind macrocycles

EA Villar, D Beglov, S Chennamadhavuni… - Nature chemical …, 2014 - nature.com
The potential utility of synthetic macrocycles (MCs) as drugs, particularly against low-
druggability targets such as protein-protein interactions, has been widely discussed. There …

Modulating protein–protein interactions: the potential of peptides

L Nevola, E Giralt - Chemical Communications, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) have emerged as important and challenging targets in
chemical biology and medicinal chemistry. The main difficulty encountered in the discovery …

Crystal engineering of hand-twisted helical crystals

S Saha, GR Desiraju - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017 - ACS Publications
A strategy is outlined for the design of hand-twisted helical crystals. The starting point in the
exercise is the one-dimensional (1D) plastic crystal, 1, 4-dibromobenzene, which is then …

Systematic targeting of protein–protein interactions

AE Modell, SL Blosser, PS Arora - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Over the past decade, protein–protein interactions (PPIs) have gone from being neglected
as 'undruggable'to being considered attractive targets for the development of therapeutics …

Group-Based Optimization of Potent and Cell-Active Inhibitors of the von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) E3 Ubiquitin Ligase: Structure–Activity Relationships Leading to the Chemical Probe (2S,4R …

P Soares, MS Gadd, J Frost, C Galdeano… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor protein is the substrate binding subunit of the VHL
E3 ubiquitin ligase, which targets hydroxylated α subunit of hypoxia inducible factors (HIFs) …

Determination of protein-ligand interactions using differential scanning fluorimetry

M Vivoli, HR Novak, JA Littlechild… - Journal of visualized …, 2014 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A wide range of methods are currently available for determining the dissociation constant
between a protein and interacting small molecules. However, most of these require access …

Overcoming chemical, biological, and computational challenges in the development of inhibitors targeting protein-protein interactions

L Laraia, G McKenzie, DR Spring, AR Venkitaraman… - Chemistry & biology, 2015 - cell.com
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) underlie the majority of biological processes, signaling,
and disease. Approaches to modulate PPIs with small molecules have therefore attracted …

[HTML][HTML] Hot spot-based design of small-molecule inhibitors for protein–protein interactions

W Guo, JA Wisniewski, H Ji - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, 2014 - Elsevier
Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are important targets for the development of chemical
probes and therapeutic agents. From the initial discovery of the existence of hot spots at PPI …