Perspective on the current state-of-the-art of quantum computing for drug discovery applications

NS Blunt, J Camps, O Crawford, R Izsák… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Computational chemistry is an essential tool in the pharmaceutical industry. Quantum
computing is a fast evolving technology that promises to completely shift the computational …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to in silico drug design

Y Chang, BA Hawkins, JJ Du, PW Groundwater… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The drug discovery process is a rocky path that is full of challenges, with the result that very
few candidates progress from hit compound to a commercially available product, often due …

Mutations on RBD of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant result in stronger binding to human ACE2 receptor

CS Lupala, Y Ye, H Chen, XD Su, H Liu - Biochemical and biophysical …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to more than 270 million
infections and 5.3 million of deaths worldwide. Several major variants of SARS-CoV-2 have …

Insights into distinct signaling profiles of the µOR activated by diverse agonists

Q Qu, W Huang, D Aydin, JM Paggi, AB Seven… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Drugs targeting the μ-opioid receptor (μOR) are the most effective analgesics available but
are also associated with fatal respiratory depression through a pathway that remains …

Remdesivir is a direct-acting antiviral that inhibits RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 with high potency

CJ Gordon, EP Tchesnokov, E Woolner… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Effective treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are urgently needed to control
this current pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Molecular mechanism of biased signaling at the kappa opioid receptor

A El Daibani, JM Paggi, K Kim, YD Laloudakis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The κ-opioid receptor (KOR) has emerged as an attractive drug target for pain management
without addiction, and biased signaling through particular pathways of KOR may be key to …

NAD+ cleavage activity by animal and plant TIR domains in cell death pathways

S Horsefield, H Burdett, X Zhang, MK Manik, Y Shi… - Science, 2019 - science.org
SARM1 (sterile alpha and TIR motif containing 1) is responsible for depletion of
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in its oxidized form (NAD+) during Wallerian …

Widespread exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife communities

AR Goldberg, KE Langwig, KL Brown… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Pervasive SARS-CoV-2 infections in humans have led to multiple transmission events to
animals. While SARS-CoV-2 has a potential broad wildlife host range, most documented …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and mechanism of the SGLT family of glucose transporters

L Han, Q Qu, D Aydin, O Panova, MJ Robertson, Y Xu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Glucose is a primary energy source in living cells. The discovery in 1960s that a sodium
gradient powers the active uptake of glucose in the intestine heralded the concept of a …

[HTML][HTML] DPP9 sequesters the C terminus of NLRP1 to repress inflammasome activation

LR Hollingsworth, H Sharif, AR Griswold, P Fontana… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat pyrin-domain containing protein 1
(NLRP1) is an inflammasome sensor that mediates the activation of caspase-1 to induce …