Natural products for drug discovery in the 21st century: innovations for novel drug discovery

NE Thomford, DA Senthebane, A Rowe… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The therapeutic properties of plants have been recognised since time immemorial. Many
pathological conditions have been treated using plant-derived medicines. These medicines …

Natural product drug discovery in the artificial intelligence era

FI Saldívar-González, VD Aldas-Bulos… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural products (NPs) are primarily recognized as privileged structures to interact with
protein drug targets. Their unique characteristics and structural diversity continue to marvel …

Counting on natural products for drug design

T Rodrigues, D Reker, P Schneider, G Schneider - Nature chemistry, 2016 - nature.com
Natural products and their molecular frameworks have a long tradition as valuable starting
points for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Recently, there has been a revitalization …

The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) v2. 0: atom ty**, depiction, molecular formulas, and substructure searching

EL Willighagen, JW Mayfield, J Alvarsson… - Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) is a widely used open source
cheminformatics toolkit, providing data structures to represent chemical concepts along with …

[HTML][HTML] The role of natural products as sources of therapeutic agents for innovative drug discovery

K Dzobo - Comprehensive pharmacology, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Emerging threats to human health require a concerted effort in search of both preventive and
treatment strategies, placing natural products at the center of efforts to obtain new therapies …

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 …

Recent advances in scaffold hop**: miniperspective

Y Hu, D Stumpfe, J Bajorath - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
Scaffold hop** refers to the computer-aided search for active compounds containing
different core structures, which is a topic of high interest in medicinal chemistry. Herein …

Diversity-oriented synthesis as a tool for the discovery of novel biologically active small molecules

WRJD Galloway, A Isidro-Llobet, DR Spring - Nature communications, 2010 - nature.com
Biologically active molecules can be identified through the screening of small-molecule
libraries. Deficiencies in current compound collections are evidenced by the continuing …

Charting, navigating, and populating natural product chemical space for drug discovery

H Lachance, S Wetzel, K Kumar… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
STRONGHOLDS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY Historically, natural products (NPs) have played
a key role in the development of chemotherapy, 1, 2 and to this very day numerous marketed …

Biology-oriented synthesis: harnessing the power of evolution

H Van Hattum, H Waldmann - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
For scientists to gain a better understanding of nature, biological research is greatly aided by
small-molecule modulators that perturb protein activity without fundamentally altering the …