Free resources to assist structure-based virtual ligand screening experiments

BO Villoutreix, N Renault, D Lagorce… - Current Protein and …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
In today's research environment, a wealth of experimental/theoretical structural data is
available and the number of therapeutically relevant macromolecular structures is growing …

Surflex-Dock 2.1: robust performance from ligand energetic modeling, ring flexibility, and knowledge-based search

AN Jain - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2007 - Springer
The Surflex flexible molecular docking method has been generalized and extended in two
primary areas related to the search component of docking. First, incorporation of a small …

Application of the EIIP/ISM bioinformatics concept in development of new drugs

V Veljkovic, N Veljkovic, JA Esté… - Current medicinal …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
The development of a new therapeutic drug is a complex, lengthy and expensive process.
On average, only one out of 10,000-30,000 originally synthesized compounds will clear all …

Discovery of small-molecule HIV-1 fusion and integrase inhibitors oleuropein and hydroxytyrosol: Part I. Integrase inhibition

S Lee-Huang, PL Huang, D Zhang, JW Lee… - Biochemical and …, 2007 - Elsevier
We have identified oleuropein (Ole) and hydroxytyrosol (HT) as a unique class of HIV-1
inhibitors from olive leaf extracts effective against viral fusion and integration. We used …

Crystal structure of the T877A human androgen receptor ligand-binding domain complexed to cyproterone acetate provides insight for ligand-induced conformational …

CE Bohl, Z Wu, DD Miller, CE Bell, JT Dalton - Journal of Biological …, 2007 - ASBMB
Cyproterone acetate (CPA) is a steroidal antiandrogen used clinically in the treatment of
prostate cancer. Compared with steroidal agonists for the androgen receptor (AR)(eg …

New pyrrole inhibitors of monoamine oxidase: synthesis, biological evaluation, and structural determinants of MAO-A and MAO-B selectivity

G La Regina, R Silvestri, M Artico… - Journal of medicinal …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A series of new pyrrole derivatives have been synthesized and evaluated for their
monoamine oxidase (MAO) A and B inhibitory activity and selectivity. N-Methyl, N-(benzyl) …

Characterizing the 1,4-Dihydropyridines Binding Interactions in the L-Type Ca2+ Channel:  Model Construction and Docking Calculations

S Cosconati, L Marinelli, A Lavecchia… - Journal of medicinal …, 2007 - ACS Publications
L-type Ca2+ channels (LCC) are membrane heteromultimeric proteins that allow the
selective entrance of Ca2+ ions into excitable cells upon membrane depolarization. Despite …

Discovery of a Rhodanine Class of Compounds as Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum Enoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Reductase

G Kumar, P Parasuraman, SK Sharma… - Journal of medicinal …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Enoyl acyl carrier protein (ACP) reductase, one of the enzymes of the type II fatty acid
biosynthesis pathway, has been established as a promising target for the development of …

Small molecule inhibitors of histone arginine methyltransferases: homology modeling, molecular docking, binding mode analysis, and biological evaluations

R Ragno, S Simeoni, S Castellano… - Journal of medicinal …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The screening of the inhibition capabilities of dye-like small molecules from a focused library
against both human PRMT1 and Aspergillus nidulans RmtA is reported as well as molecular …

Identification of the PIP2‐binding site on Kir6.2 by molecular modelling and functional analysis

S Haider, AI Tarasov, TJ Craig, MSP Sansom… - The EMBO …, 2007 - embopress.org
ATP‐sensitive potassium (KATP) channels couple cell metabolism to electrical activity by
regulating K+ fluxes across the plasma membrane. Channel closure is facilitated by ATP …