Abstract：
:An in silico screening procedure was performed to select new inhibitors of glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β), a serine/threonine protein kinase that in the last two decades has emerged as a key target in drug discovery, having been implicated in multiple cellular processes and linked with the pathogenesis of several diseases. GSK-3β inhibitors might prove useful as therapeutic compounds in the treatment of conditions associated with elevated levels of enzyme activity, such as type-2 diabetes and neurological disorders, for example, Alzheimer's disease, bipolar disorder, neuronal cell death, stroke, and depression. In this work, virtual screening studies were applied to proprietary compound libraries, and the functional activities of selected compounds were assayed on human GSK-3β. The in silico screening procedure enabled the identification of eight hit compounds showing pIC50 values ranging from 4.9 to 5.5. X-ray crystallographic studies resulted in a 2.50 Å three-dimensional structure of GSK-3β complexed with one of the selected compounds, confirming that the inhibitor interacts with the enzyme according to the docking hypothesis. Importantly, molecular docking was able to find a new chemical scaffold for GSK-3β inhibition, providing grounds for rational structure-based design aimed at further optimization of the initial hits.
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J Chem Inf Modeljournal_title
Journal of chemical information and modelingauthors
Ombrato R,Cazzolla N,Mancini F,Mangano Gdoi
10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00486subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-12-28 00:00:00pages
2540-51issue
12eissn
1549-9596issn
1549-960Xjournal_volume
55pub_type
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