Rational drug design targeting intrinsically disordered proteins

H Wang, R Xiong, L Lai - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are proteins that perform important biological
functions without well‐defined structures under physiological conditions. IDPs can form …

Fuzzy drug targets: disordered proteins in the drug-discovery realm

S Saurabh, K Nadendla, SS Purohit, PM Sivakumar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions (IDRs) form a large part of the eukaryotic
proteome. Contrary to the structure–function paradigm, the disordered proteins perform a …

Targeting intrinsically disordered proteins at the edge of chaos

H Ruan, Q Sun, W Zhang, Y Liu, L Lai - Drug discovery today, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Intrinscially disordered proteins (IDPs) are abundant and involved in many
diseases.•Advances and challenges in drug design targeting IDPs are discussed.•Known …

Targeting intrinsically disordered proteins through dynamic interactions

J Chen, X Liu, J Chen - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are over-represented in major disease pathways and
have attracted significant interest in understanding if and how they may be targeted using …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and novel strategies for drug discovery

VN Uversky - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: There is a natural abundance of intrinsically disordered proteins or intrinsically
disordered protein regions (IDPs or IDPRs), that is, biologically active proteins/regions …

Recent advances in computational protocols addressing intrinsically disordered proteins

S Bhattacharya, X Lin - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDP) are abundant in the human genome and have recently
emerged as major therapeutic targets for various diseases. Unlike traditional proteins that …

Intrinsically disordered proteins: targets for the future?

VN Uversky - Structural Biology in Drug Discovery: Methods …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Various studies have revealed that important biological functions of many proteins do not
require stable well‐defined structure in solution, with many functions originating from the …

Ligand clouds around protein clouds: a scenario of ligand binding with intrinsically disordered proteins

F Jin, C Yu, L Lai, Z Liu - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) were found to be widely associated with human
diseases and may serve as potential drug design targets. However, drug design targeting …

Perspectives on drug discovery strategies based on IDPs

G Fuertes, L Nevola, S Esteban-Martín - Intrinsically disordered proteins, 2019 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), polypeptide chains that do not fold into a
homogeneous three-dimensional (3D) structure, are overrepresented in major human …

Targeting intrinsically disordered proteins in rational drug discovery

S Ambadipudi, M Zweckstetter - Expert opinion on drug discovery, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered protein
regions (IDPRs) have gained wide recognition over the past decade due to their versatile …