Target flexibility: an emerging consideration in drug discovery and design

P Cozzini, GE Kellogg, F Spyrakis… - Journal of medicinal …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Structure-based drug discovery has played an important role in medicinal chemistry, 1
beginning nearly when the first X-ray crystal structure of the myoglobin and hemoglobin …

Implications of protein flexibility for drug discovery

SJ Teague - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2003 - nature.com
Proteins are in constant motion between different conformational states with similar
energies. This has often been ignored in drug design. However, protein flexibility is …

Structure-based drug design: progress, results and challenges

CLMJ Verlinde, WGJ Hol - Structure, 1994 - cell.com
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Strategies for the selective regulation of kinases with allosteric modulators: exploiting exclusive structural features

Z Fang, C Grütter, D Rauh - ACS chemical biology, 2013 - ACS Publications
The modulation of kinase function has become an important goal in modern drug discovery
and chemical biology research. In cancer-targeted therapies, kinase inhibitors have been …

Inherent versus induced protein flexibility: comparisons within and between apo and holo structures

JJ Clark, ML Benson, RD Smith… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how ligand binding influences protein flexibility is important, especially in
rational drug design. Protein flexibility upon ligand binding is analyzed herein using 305 …

Rational approaches to improving selectivity in drug design

DJ Huggins, W Sherman, B Tidor - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
Appropriate tuning of binding selectivity is a primary objective in the discovery and
optimization of a compound on the path toward developing a drug. The environment in …

Protein flexibility is an important component of structure-based drug discovery

HA Carlson - Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2002 - ingentaconnect.com
Receptor-based drug discovery can increase the novelty of a hit list over ligandbased
models that are dependent on known inhibitors. It is important to explore new conformational …

Importance of rigidity in designing small molecule drugs to tackle protein–protein interactions (PPIs) through stabilization of desired conformers: miniperspective

ADG Lawson, M MacCoss, JP Heer - Journal of medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Tackling PPIs, particularly by stabilizing clinically favored conformations of target proteins,
with orally available, bona fide small molecules remains a significant but immensely …

Understanding the challenges of protein flexibility in drug design

DA Antunes, D Devaurs, LE Kavraki - Expert opinion on drug …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Protein–ligand interactions play key roles in various metabolic pathways, and
the proteins involved in these interactions represent major targets for drug discovery …

Targeting conformational plasticity of protein kinases

M Tong, MA Seeliger - ACS chemical biology, 2015 - ACS Publications
The quest for ever more selective kinase inhibitors as potential future drugs has yielded a
large repertoire of chemical probes that are selective for specific kinase conformations …