Oxycodone in the opioid epidemic: high 'liking','wanting', and abuse liability

C Kibaly, JA Alderete, SH Liu, HS Nasef… - Cellular and molecular …, 2021 - Springer
It is estimated that nearly a third of people who abuse drugs started with prescription opioid
medicines. Approximately, 11.5 million Americans used prescription drugs recreationally in …

Along the allostery stream: Recent advances in computational methods for allosteric drug discovery

D Ni, Z Chai, Y Wang, M Li, Z Yu, Y Liu… - Wiley …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Allostery is a universal, biological phenomenon in which orthosteric sites are fine‐tuned by
topologically distal allosteric sites triggered by perturbations, such as ligand binding, residue …

Rational design of allosteric modulators: Challenges and successes

A Chatzigoulas, Z Cournia - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in structural biology and computational techniques have revealed
allosteric mechanisms for an abundance of targets leading to the establishment of rational …

Hot spots-making directed evolution easier

H Yu, S Ma, Y Li, PA Dalby - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Directed evolution has emerged as a powerful strategy to engineer various properties of
proteins. Traditional methods to construct libraries such as error-prone PCR and DNA …

[HTML][HTML] Allostery: allosteric cancer drivers and innovative allosteric drugs

R Nussinov, M Zhang, R Maloney, Y Liu, CJ Tsai… - Journal of molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here, we discuss the principles of allosteric activating mutations, propagation downstream of
the signals that they prompt, and allosteric drugs, with examples from the Ras signaling …

The discovery of a putative allosteric site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein using an integrated structural/dynamic approach

L Di Paola, H Hadi-Alijanvand, X Song… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
SARS-CoV-2 has caused the largest pandemic of the twenty-first century (COVID-19),
threatening the life and economy of all countries in the world. The identification of novel …

Targeting allosteric regulation of cancer metabolism

DM Kremer, CA Lyssiotis - Nature Chemical Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is observed across all cancer types. Indeed, the success of many
classic chemotherapies stems from their targeting of cancer metabolism. Contemporary …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting Cbl-b in cancer immunotherapy

RC Augustin, R Bao, JJ Luke - Journal for Immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer immunotherapy with immune-checkpoint blockade has improved the outcomes of
patients with various malignancies, yet a majority do not benefit or develop resistance. To …

Recent advances in user-friendly computational tools to engineer protein function

CE Sequeiros-Borja, B Surpeta… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Progress in technology and algorithms throughout the past decade has transformed the field
of protein design and engineering. Computational approaches have become well-engrained …

Current trends in natural products for the treatment and management of dementia: Computational to clinical studies

RK Singla, S Joon, B Sinha, MA Kamal… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The number of preclinical and clinical studies evaluating natural products-based
management of dementia has gradually increased, with an exponential rise in 2020 and …