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 …

Exploring the role of receptor flexibility in structure-based drug discovery

F Feixas, S Lindert, W Sinko, JA McCammon - Biophysical chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The proper understanding of biomolecular recognition mechanisms that take place in a drug
target is of paramount importance to improve the efficiency of drug discovery and …

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 …

Computer-aided drug-discovery techniques that account for receptor flexibility

JD Durrant, JA McCammon - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
Protein flexibility plays a critical role in ligand binding to both orthosteric and allosteric sites.
We here review some of the computer-aided drug-design techniques currently used to …

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 …

Protein flexibility and drug design: how to hit a moving target

HA Carlson - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2002 - Elsevier
The most advanced methods for computer-aided drug design and database mining
incorporate protein flexibility. Such techniques are not only needed to obtain proper results; …

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 …

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 …

Protein flexibility and ligand recognition: challenges for molecular modeling

F Spyrakis, A BidonChanal, X Barril… - Current topics in …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
The intrinsic dynamics of macromolecules is an essential property to relate the structure of
biomolecular systems with their function in the cell. In the field of ligand-receptor recognition …

Functional aspects of protein flexibility

K Teilum, JG Olsen, BB Kragelund - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2009 - Springer
Proteins are dynamic entities, and they possess an inherent flexibility that allows them to
function through molecular interactions within the cell, among cells and even between …