Advancing drug discovery via artificial intelligence

HCS Chan, H Shan, T Dahoun, H Vogel… - Trends in pharmacological …, 2019 - cell.com
Drug discovery and development are among the most important translational science
activities that contribute to human health and wellbeing. However, the development of a new …

Advances in applying computer-aided drug design for neurodegenerative diseases

MM Salman, Z Al-Obaidi, P Kitchen, A Loreto… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Huntington's disease are incurable and affect millions of …

The G protein database, GproteinDb

G Pándy-Szekeres, M Esguerra… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Two-thirds of signaling substances, several sensory stimuli and over one-third of drugs act
via receptors coupling to G proteins. Here, we present an online platform for G protein …

An octopamine receptor confers selective toxicity of amitraz on honeybees and Varroa mites

L Guo, X Fan, X Qiao, C Montell, J Huang - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The Varroa destructor mite is a devastating parasite of Apis mellifera honeybees. They can
cause colonies to collapse by spreading viruses and feeding on the fat reserves of adults …

Artificial intelligence (AI) in drugs and pharmaceuticals

A Sahu, J Mishra, N Kushwaha - Combinatorial chemistry & high …, 2022 - benthamdirect.com
The advancement of computing and technology has invaded all the dimensions of science.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one core branch of Computer Science, which has percolated to …

Allosteric drugs and mutations: chances, challenges, and necessity

E Guarnera, IN Berezovsky - Current opinion in structural biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Allosteric drugs have become an indispensable tool in precision medicine.•Major
targets for allosteric drugs: diversity structures and functions.•Allosteric effects of mutations …

The effects of sodium ions on ligand binding and conformational states of G protein-coupled receptors—insights from mass spectrometry

MT Agasid, L Sørensen, LH Urner, J Yan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The use of mass spectrometry to investigate proteins is now well established and provides
invaluable information for both soluble and membrane protein assemblies. Maintaining …

A molecular sensor for cholesterol in the human serotonin1A receptor

GA Kumar, P Sarkar, TM Stepniewski, M Jafurulla… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The function of several G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs) exhibits cholesterol sensitivity.
Cholesterol sensitivity of GPCRs could be attributed to specific sequence and structural …

Classification model for the second extracellular loop of class A GPCRs

A Nicoli, A Dunkel, T Giorgino, C de Graaf… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The extracellular loop 2 (ECL2) is the longest and the most diverse loop among class AG
protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). It connects the transmembrane (TM) helices 4 and 5 …

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs): advances in structures, mechanisms, and drug discovery

M Zhang, T Chen, X Lu, X Lan, Z Chen… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), the largest family of human membrane proteins and
an important class of drug targets, play a role in maintaining numerous physiological …