Abstract：
:DNA methylation is an epigenetic change that results in the addition of a methyl group at the carbon-5 position of cytosine residues. The process is mediated by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), a family of enzymes for which inhibition is a promising strategy for the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Here, we review the current status of the computational studies directed to rationalize, at the molecular level, the enzymatic activity of DNMT inhibitors. We also review successful virtual screenings to identify inhibitors with novel scaffolds as well as the emerging efforts to characterize the dynamic behavior of DNMTs. Thus, computational approaches form part of multidisciplinary efforts to further advance epigenetic therapies.
journal_name
Drug Discov Todayjournal_title
Drug discovery todayauthors
Medina-Franco JL,Caulfield Tdoi
10.1016/j.drudis.2011.02.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-05-01 00:00:00pages
418-25issue
9-10eissn
1359-6446issn
1878-5832pii
S1359-6446(11)00035-3journal_volume
16pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:Skin is a vital protective organ, the main role of which is to provide a physical barrier and to prevent the entry of pathogens. Various pathologies, such as atopic dermatitis (AD), psoriasis (PSO), or skin cancers, can affect the skin, and all show a high and increasing prevalence. Many antibodies are currently used ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.10.023
更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sudden cardiac death, secondary to ventricular fibrillation (VF), remains the leading cause of death in the USA. Recent experimental and theoretical studies suggest that VF could be caused by spiral wave re-entry. The initiation and subsequent break-up of spiral waves has been linked to electrical alternans, a phenome...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(02)02567-9
更新日期：2003-02-15 00:00:00
abstract：:In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of freely accessible online databases serving the chemistry community. The internet provides chemistry data that can be used for data-mining, for computer models, and integration into systems to aid drug discovery. There is however a responsibility to en...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2012.02.013
更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:14-3-3 proteins regulate intracellular signaling pathways, such as signal transduction, protein trafficking, cell cycle, and apoptosis. In addition to the ubiquitous roles of 14-3-3 isoforms, unique tissue-specific functions are also described for each isoform. Owing to their role in regulating cell cycle, protein tra...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2015.09.012
更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The occurrence of drug resistance in oncology accounts for treatment failure and relapse of diverse tumor types. Cancers contain cells at various stages of differentiation together with a limited number of 'cancer-initiating cells' able to self-renew and divide asymmetrically, driving tumorigenesis. Cancer-initiating ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2011.02.005
更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Opinions about the therapeutic efficacy of medicinal herbs differ significantly. Some reported herbal efficacies at low doses of active ingredients suggest a need for investigating whether these are because of placebo or multi-ingredient synergistic effects. This review discusses the opinions, methods and outcomes of ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2009.03.012
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is of significant concern to drug development and regulatory review because of the limited success with existing preclinical models. For developing alternative methods, a large drug list is needed with known DILI severity and toxicity. We augmented the DILIrank data set [annotated usin...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2019.09.022
更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Acute and chronic cough represent one of the most common symptoms of medical importance but effective pharmacotherapy is, to all intents and purposes, absent. Numerous initiatives targeting the recently discovered tussive pathways are in progress. Here, we review the current antitussive armamentarium and provide an up...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2012.11.004
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The increasing prevalence of chronic autoimmune-mediated inflammatory diseases (AIMIDs) in ageing western societies is a major challenge for the drug development industry. The current high medical need for more-effective treatments is at least in part caused by our limited understanding of the mechanisms that drive ch...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2012.11.010
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Total-body exposure to ionizing radiation (TBI) results in life-threatening acute radiation syndrome (ARS), which encompasses hematopoietic and gastrointestinal (GI) injuries and results in dose-dependent morbidity and mortality. Management of ARS warrants the deployment of effective medical countermeasure agents (MCM...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.02.004
更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Decisions in drug development are made on the basis of determinations of cause and effect from experimental observations that span drug development phases. Despite advances in our powers of observation, the ability to determine compound mechanisms from large-scale multi-omic technologies continues to be a major bottle...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2007.10.001
更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The focus of high-throughput drug discovery has progressed through the genome and the transcriptome and is now moving towards more difficult problems in assessing the proteome, glycome and metabolome. Microarrays are currently the major tool in the assessment of gene expression via cDNA or RNA analysis; however, they ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(03)02773-9
更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00
abstract：:Inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or its corresponding receptor (VEGFR) has been validated as an efficacious antiangiogenetic approach for cancer treatment. More recently, neuropilins (NRPs), the essential coreceptors for VEGF, have also been shown to have a significant role in VEGF signaling. Gi...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2018.10.004
更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Nonclinical safety testing of new biotherapeutic entities represents its own challenges and opportunities in drug development. Hot topics in this field have been discussed recently at the 2nd Annual BioSafe European General Membership Meeting. In this feature article, discussions on the challenges surrounding the use ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type：
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2013.08.003
更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lipidomics is a rapidly growing technology that can be used in biomedical research to study disease mechanisms, identify novel disease biomarkers and drug efficacy biomarkers, and reveal off-target effects. Lipidomics can also be used to elucidate the mechanism of action of different drug compounds or as readouts in M...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2013.09.008
更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2019.07.011
更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The operational model of agonism assumes that the maximum effect a particular receptor system can achieve (the Em parameter) is fixed. Em estimates are above but close to the asymptotic maximum effects of endogenous agonists. The concept of Em is contradicted by superagonists and those positive allosteric modulators t...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2012.12.004
更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Tuberculosis drug discovery has shifted in recent years from a primarily target-based approach to one that uses phenotypic high-throughput screens. As examples of this, through our EU-funded FP7 collaborations, New Medicines for Tuberculosis was target-based and our more-recent More Medicines for Tuberculosis project ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2016.09.025
更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To enable the list of genes and proteins contained within genomic databases to be useful for drug discovery, we need to understand how the genome maps into the phenome. An essential, but not explicitly listed ingredient of the genome is the regulatory interactions between genes and proteins that form a genome-wide net...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(02)02463-7
更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00
abstract：:The drug-likeness of a compound is a key factor during the initial phases of drug discovery. It can be defined as the similarity between compounds and drugs. Here, we collate research related to the fraction of sp3 carbon atoms (Fsp3), including related high-throughput screening (HTS) cases, structural modifications b...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.07.017
更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00
abstract：:Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved copolymer, has been exploited widely in the design of nanoparticles because it is biodegradable, biocompatible, protects the drug molecules from degradation, and aids in producing sustained and targeted delivery. However, certain co...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2014.09.018
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Using a biologically relevant peptide or protein structure as a starting point for lead identification represents one of the most powerful approaches in modern drug discovery. Here, we focus on the protein epitope mimetic (PEM) approach, where folded 3D structures of peptides and proteins are taken as starting points ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2008.07.008
更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2006.08.005
更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has evolved from an untreatable condition to a disease for which several classes of drugs have now been approved, including various prostanoids, endothelin receptor antagonists and phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors. Because the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension is increasingly u...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2008.12.003
更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Discussion Forum provides a medium for airing your views on any issues related to the pharmaceutical industry and obtaining feedback and discussion on these views from others in the field. You can discuss issues that get you hot under the collar, practical problems at the bench, recently published literature, or j...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(01)01816-5
更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The increasing incidence of cutaneous malignancies signifies the need for multiple treatment options. Several available reviews have emphasized the potential role of various botanical extracts and naturally occurring compounds as anti-skin-cancer agents. Few studies relate to the role of chemoprevention and therapeuti...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2018.11.020
更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The completion of the human genome sequencing project has provided a flood of new information that is likely to change the way scientists approach the study of complex biological systems. A major challenge lies in translating this information into new and better ways to treat human disease. The multidisciplinary scien...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2004-01-15 00:00:00
abstract：:In the past two decades, tuberculosis has gone from being a forgotten disease to a modern and recrudescent pathology. Tuberculosis is a curable infection and most of the negative therapeutic outcomes are related to poor patient compliance, which could be solved by new drug delivery approaches. By using such approaches...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2012.03.012
更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:When cross-reactivity of a lead antibody across species is limited, antibody development programs require the generation of surrogate molecules or surrogate animal models necessary for the conduct of preclinical pharmacology and safety studies. When surrogate approaches are employed, the complexities and challenges fo...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2009.09.014
更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Current advances in systems biology suggest a new change of paradigm reinforcing the holistic nature of the drug discovery process. According to the principles of systems biology, a simple drug perturbing a network of targets can trigger complex reactions. Therefore, it is possible to connect initial events with final...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2017.02.004
更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00
