Proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) in drug discovery paradigm: Recent progress and future challenges

S Zeng, W Huang, X Zheng, Z Zhang, J Wang… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC), hijacking protein of interest (POI) and recruiting E3
ligase for target degradation via the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, is a novel drug …

Molecular recognition in chemical and biological systems

E Persch, O Dumele, F Diederich - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Structure‐based ligand design in medicinal chemistry and crop protection relies on
the identification and quantification of weak noncovalent interactions and understanding the …

DeepAffinity: interpretable deep learning of compound–protein affinity through unified recurrent and convolutional neural networks

M Karimi, D Wu, Z Wang, Y Shen - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Drug discovery demands rapid quantification of compound–protein interaction
(CPI). However, there is a lack of methods that can predict compound–protein affinity from …

AMG 176, a selective MCL1 inhibitor, is effective in hematologic cancer models alone and in combination with established therapies

S Caenepeel, SP Brown, B Belmontes, G Moody… - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
The prosurvival BCL2 family member MCL1 is frequently dysregulated in cancer. To
overcome the significant challenges associated with inhibition of MCL1 protein–protein …

Alchemical binding free energy calculations in AMBER20: Advances and best practices for drug discovery

TS Lee, BK Allen, TJ Giese, Z Guo, P Li… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Predicting protein–ligand binding affinities and the associated thermodynamics of
biomolecular recognition is a primary objective of structure-based drug design. Alchemical …

Protein and ligand preparation: parameters, protocols, and influence on virtual screening enrichments

G Madhavi Sastry, M Adzhigirey, T Day… - Journal of computer …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Structure-based virtual screening plays an important role in drug discovery and
complements other screening approaches. In general, protein crystal structures are …

μMap photoproximity labeling enables small molecule binding site mapping

SW Huth, JV Oakley, CP Seath, JB Geri… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The characterization of ligand binding modes is a crucial step in the drug discovery process
and is especially important in campaigns arising from phenotypic screening, where the …

A DNA-encoded chemical library based on chiral 4-amino-proline enables stereospecific isozyme-selective protein recognition

S Oehler, L Lucaroni, F Migliorini, A Elsayed, L Prati… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DELs) consist of large chemical compound collections
individually linked to DNA barcodes, facilitating pooled construction and screening …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of efficacy-driven ligand selectivity at GPCRs

AS Powers, V Pham, WAC Burger, G Thompson… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
A drug's selectivity for target receptors is essential to its therapeutic utility, but achieving
selectivity between similar receptors is challenging. The serendipitous discovery of ligands …

Lipid nanodiscs for high-resolution NMR studies of membrane proteins

U Günsel, F Hagn - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Membrane proteins (MPs) play essential roles in numerous cellular processes. Because
around 70% of the currently marketed drugs target MPs, a detailed understanding of their …