Structure-based drug repositioning: potential and limits

MF Adasme, D Parisi, A Sveshnikova… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug repositioning, the assignment of new therapeutic purposes to known drugs, is an
established strategy with many repurposed drugs on the market and many more at …

[HTML][HTML] Drug repositioning or target repositioning: A structural perspective of drug-target-indication relationship for available repurposed drugs

D Parisi, MF Adasme, A Sveshnikova, SN Bolz… - Computational and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drug repositioning aims to find new indications for existing drugs in order to reduce drug
development cost and time. Currently, there are numerous stories of successful drug …

AI-powered virtual screening of large compound libraries leads to the discovery of novel inhibitors of Sirtuin-1

A Gryniukova, F Kaiser, I Myziuk… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The discovery of new scaffolds and chemotypes via high-throughput screening is tedious
and resource intensive. Yet, there are millions of small molecules commercially available …

Signal transduction pathways as therapeutic target for Chagas disease

AC Schoijet, T Sternlieb… - Current medicinal …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Trypanosomatids are a group of flagellated unicellular eukaryotes, causing serious human
diseases including Chagas disease (Trypanosoma cruzi), slee** sickness (Trypanosoma …

ProBiS-Dock Database: a web server and interactive web repository of small ligand–protein binding sites for drug design

J Konc, S Lesnik, B Skrlj, D Janezic - Journal of chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We have developed a new system, ProBiS-Dock, which can be used to determine the
different types of protein binding sites for small ligands. The binding sites identified this way …

Repositioned drugs for chagas disease unveiled via structure-based drug repositioning

MF Adasme, SN Bolz, L Adelmann, S Salentin… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, affects millions of people in
South America. The current treatments are limited, have severe side effects, and are only …

From malaria to cancer: Computational drug repositioning of amodiaquine using PLIP interaction patterns

S Salentin, MF Adasme, JC Heinrich, VJ Haupt… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Drug repositioning identifies new indications for known drugs. Here we report repositioning
of the malaria drug amodiaquine as a potential anti-cancer agent. While most repositioning …

Computational drug repositioning for chagas disease using protein-ligand interaction profiling

A Juárez-Saldivar, M Schroeder, S Salentin… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi), affects nearly eight million people
worldwide. There are currently only limited treatment options, which cause several side …

Discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis InhA Inhibitors by Binding Sites Comparison and Ligands Prediction

T Štular, S Lešnik, K Rožman… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Drug discovery is usually focused on a single protein target; in this process, existing
compounds that bind to related proteins are often ignored. We describe ProBiS plugin …

Binding site comparisons for target-centered drug discovery

J Konc - Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The success of binding site comparisons in drug discovery is based on the
recognized fact that many different proteins have similar binding sites. Indeed, binding site …