Docking and scoring in virtual screening for drug discovery: methods and applications

DB Kitchen, H Decornez, JR Furr… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2004 - nature.com
Computational approaches that'dock'small molecules into the structures of macromolecular
targets and'score'their potential complementarity to binding sites are widely used in hit …

Cytochrome P450 in silico: an integrative modeling approach

C De Graaf, NPE Vermeulen… - Journal of medicinal …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) constitute the most important family of biotransformation
enzymes involved in drug metabolism, playing an important role in the disposition of drugs …

New insights in the endocrine disrupting effects of three primary metabolites of organophosphate flame retardants

Q Zhang, C Yu, L Fu, S Gu, C Wang - Environmental Science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the ubiquity of organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) metabolites in the biota,
the endocrine disrupting potency has not been well examined. Herein, we chose three …

Consensus scoring criteria for improving enrichment in virtual screening

JM Yang, YF Chen, TW Shen, BS Kristal… - Journal of chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Motivation: Virtual screening of molecular compound libraries is a potentially powerful and
inexpensive method for the discovery of novel lead compounds for drug development. The …

A comparative linear interaction energy and MM/PBSA study on SIRT1–ligand binding free energy calculation

EA Rifai, M van Dijk, NPE Vermeulen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Binding free energy (Δ G bind) computation can play an important role in prioritizing
compounds to be evaluated experimentally on their affinity for target proteins, yet fast and …

Isoflavones—safe food additives or dangerous drugs?

W Wuttke, H Jarry, D Seidlová-Wuttke - Ageing research reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
The sales volume of products containing isoflavone has increased since the publication of
the Women's Health Initiative. The many apparently contradictory results published on the …

Modification of the estrogenic properties of diphenols by the incorporation of ferrocene. Generation of antiproliferative effects in vitro

A Vessieres, S Top, P Pigeon, E Hillard… - Journal of medicinal …, 2005 - ACS Publications
We report here the synthesis and the strong and unexpected antiproliferative effect of the
organometallic diphenolic compound 1, 1-bis (4 '-hydroxyphenyl)-2-ferrocenyl-but-1-ene (4) …

Xenoestrogen-induced ERK-1 and ERK-2 activation via multiple membrane-initiated signaling pathways

NN Bulayeva, CS Watson - Environmental health perspectives, 2004 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Xenoestrogens can mimic or antagonize the activity of physiological estrogens, and the
suggested mechanism of xenoestrogen action involves binding to estrogen receptors (ERs) …

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs): In Vitro Mechanism of Estrogenic Activation and Differential Effects on ER Target Genes

Y Li, CJ Luh, KA Burns, Y Arao, Z Jiang… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) influence the activity of estrogen
receptors (ERs) and alter the function of the endocrine system. However, the diversity of …

Structural bioinformatics analysis of SARS-CoV-2 variants reveals higher hACE2 receptor binding affinity for Omicron B. 1.1. 529 spike RBD compared to wild type …

V Durmaz, K Köchl, A Krassnigg, L Parigger… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
To date, more than 263 million people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the
COVID-19 pandemic. In many countries, the global spread occurred in multiple pandemic …