NMR as a “gold standard” method in drug design and discovery

AH Emwas, K Szczepski, BG Poulson, K Chandra… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Studying disease models at the molecular level is vital for drug development in order to
improve treatment and prevent a wide range of human pathologies. Microbial infections are …

Pathogen-associated gene discovery workflows for novel antivirulence therapeutic development

WYV Lau, PK Taylor, FSL Brinkman, AHY Lee - EBioMedicine, 2023 - thelancet.com
Novel therapeutics to manage bacterial infections are urgently needed as the impact and
prevalence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) grows. Antivirulence therapeutics are an …

Oligomeric remodeling by molecular glues revealed using native mass spectrometry and mass photometry

X Huang, H Kamadurai, P Siuti, E Ahmed… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molecular glues stabilize interactions between E3 ligases and novel substrates to promote
substrate degradation, thereby facilitating the inhibition of traditionally “undruggable” protein …

Applications of isothermal titration calorimetry in pure and applied research from 2016 to 2020

RJ Falconer, B Schuur… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The last 5 years have seen a series of advances in the application of isothermal titration
microcalorimetry (ITC) and interpretation of ITC data. ITC has played an invaluable role in …

Machine learning assisted hit prioritization for high throughput screening in drug discovery

D Boldini, L Friedrich, D Kuhn, SA Sieber - ACS Central Science, 2024 - ACS Publications
Efficient prioritization of bioactive compounds from high throughput screening campaigns is
a fundamental challenge for accelerating drug development efforts. In this study, we present …

Synergy between machine learning and natural products cheminformatics: Application to the lead discovery of anthraquinone derivatives

S Moshawih, HP Goh, N Kifli, AC Idris… - Chemical Biology & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cheminformatics utilizing machine learning (ML) techniques have opened up a new horizon
in drug discovery. This is owing to vast chemical space expansion with rocketing numbers of …

[HTML][HTML] Homology modeling, de Novo design of ligands, and molecular docking identify potential inhibitors of leishmania donovani 24-sterol methyltransferase

PO Sakyi, E Broni, RK Amewu, WA Miller III… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The therapeutic challenges pertaining to leishmaniasis due to reported chemoresistance
and toxicity, necessitates the need to explore novel pathways to identify plausible inhibitory …

Natural compounds as non-nucleoside inhibitors of Zika virus polymerase through integration of in silico and in vitro approaches

PRPS Ramos, M Mottin, CS Lima, LR Assis… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although the past epidemic of Zika virus (ZIKV) resulted in severe neurological
consequences for infected infants and adults, there are still no approved drugs to treat ZIKV …

Optimizing drug discovery for snakebite envenoming via a high-throughput phospholipase A2 screening platform

LO Albulescu, A Westhorpe, RH Clare… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that causes as many as 1.8 million
envenomings and 140,000 deaths annually. To address treatment limitations that exist with …

Metal‐based antimicrobial strategies against intramacrophage Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TS Coelho, PCB Halicki, L Silva Jr… - Letters in Applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The combinatorial chemistry has been an important tool for the development of new
strategies against the Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Therefore, we evaluated the …