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abstract：:The Drug Design Data Resource (D3R) Grand Challenges present an opportunity to assess, in the context of a blind predictive challenge, the accuracy and the limits of tools and methodologies designed to help guide pharmaceutical drug discovery projects. Here, we report the results of our participation in the D3R Grand ...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Sasmal S,El Khoury L,Mobley DL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial ribosome is a major target of naturally occurring thiopeptides antibiotics. Studying thiopeptide (e.g. thiostrepton) binding to the GAR's 23S·L11 ribosomal subunit using docking methods is challenging. Regarding the target, the binding site is composed of a flexible protein-RNA nonbonded interface whose ...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Wolf A,Schoof S,Baumann S,Arndt HD,Kirschner KN

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A linear quantitative-structure activity relationship model is developed in this work using Multiple Linear Regression Analysis as applied to a series of 51 1-(3,3-diphenylpropyl)-piperidinyl phenylacetamides derivatives with CCR5 binding affinity. For the selection of the best variables the Elimination Selection-Step...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Afantitis A,Melagraki G,Sarimveis H,Koutentis PA,Markopoulos J,Igglessi-Markopoulou O

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrostatic potential complementarity between ligands and their receptor sites is evaluated by the superposition of the electrostatic potential, generated by the receptor, onto the ligand potential over the ligand van der Waals surface. We would like to examine which structural factors generate this pattern of super...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Chau PL,Dean PM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) constitute a superfamily of receptors that forms an important therapeutic target. The number of known GPCR sequences and related information increases rapidly. For these reasons, we are developing the Viseur program to integrate the available information related to GPCRs. The Viseur...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Campagne F,Jestin R,Reversat JL,Bernassau JM,Maigret B

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular structures and functions of the majority of proteins across different species are yet to be identified. Much needed functional annotation of these gene products often benefits from the knowledge of protein-ligand interactions. Towards this goal, we developed eFindSite, an improved version of FINDSITE, design...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Brylinski M,Feinstein WP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We apply an atomistic model of passive membrane permeability to a series of weakly basic drugs. The computational model uses conformational sampling in combination with an all-atom force field and implicit solvent model to estimate relative passive membrane permeabilities. The model does not require the use of trainin...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Kalyanaraman C,Jacobson MP

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we reported structurally novel PDE4 inhibitors based on 1,4-benzodiazepine derivatives. The main interest in developing bezodiazepine-based PDE4 inhibitors is in their lack of adverse effects of emesis with respect to rolipram-like compounds. A large effort has thus been made toward the structural optimizati...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Ducrot P,Andrianjara CR,Wrigglesworth R

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroscopic pKa values were calculated for all compounds in the SAMPL6 blind prediction challenge, based on quantum chemical calculations with a continuum solvation model and a linear correction derived from a small training set. Microscopic pKa values were derived from the gas-phase free energy difference between pro...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Selwa E,Kenney IM,Beckstein O,Iorga BI

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clarithromycin (6-O-methylerythromycin A) is a 14-membered macrolide antibiotic which is active in vitro against clinically important gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. The selectivity of the methylation of the C-6 OH group is studied on erythromycin A derivatives. To understand the effect of the solvent on the...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Duran D,Aviyente V,Baysa C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular modeling techniques and three-dimensional (3D) pattern analysis have been used to investigate the chemical and steric properties of compounds that inhibit transport of the plant hormone auxin. These compounds bind to a specific site on the plant plasma membrane characterized by its affinity for the herbicide...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Bures MG,Black-Schaefer C,Gardner G

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Multiple Copy Simultaneous Search methodology has been used to construct functionality maps for an extended region of human thrombin, including the active site. This method allows the determination of energetically favorable positions and orientations for functional groups defined by the user on the three-dimensio...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Grootenhuis PD,Karplus M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacophoric concept plays an important role in ligand-based drug design methods to describe the similarity and diversity of molecules, and could also be exploited as a molecular representation scheme. A three-point pharmacophore method was used as a molecular representation perception. This procedure was implem...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Atlamazoglou V,Thireou T,Eliopoulos E

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When we build a predictive model of a drug property we rigorously assess its predictive accuracy, but we are rarely able to address the most important question, "How useful will the model be in making a decision in a practical context?" To answer this requires an understanding of the prior probability distribution ("t...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Segall M,Chadwick A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present a case study to explore the challenges associated with finding novel molecules for a receptor that has been studied in depth and has a wealth of chemical information available. Specifically, we apply a previously described protocol that incorporates explicit water molecules in the ligand bindi...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Lenselink EB,Beuming T,van Veen C,Massink A,Sherman W,van Vlijmen HW,IJzerman AP

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While it may seem intuitive that using an ensemble of multiple conformations of a receptor in structure-based virtual screening experiments would necessarily yield improved enrichment of actives relative to using just a single receptor, it turns out that at least in the p38 MAP kinase model system studied here, a very...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Rao S,Sanschagrin PC,Greenwood JR,Repasky MP,Sherman W,Farid R

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational prediction of the effects of residue changes on peptide-protein binding affinities, followed by experimental testing of the top predicted binders, is an efficient strategy for the rational structure-based design of peptide inhibitors. In this study we apply this approach to the discovery of competitive a...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Te JA,Dong M,Miller LJ,Bordner AJ

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed PLASS (Protein-Ligand Affinity Statistical Score), a pair-wise potential of mean-force for rapid estimation of the binding affinity of a ligand molecule to a protein active site. This scoring function is derived from the frequency of occurrence of atom-type pairs in crystallographic complexes taken f...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Ozrin VD,Subbotin MV,Nikitin SM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of five different datasets of inhibitors of serotonin uptake has yielded quantitative structure/activity relationships (QSARs) which delineate the role of steric and hydrophobic properties essential for inhibition by phenylethylamine-type analogues. ...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Hansch C,Caldwell J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steric complementarity is a prerequisite for ligand-receptor recognition; this implies that drugs with a common receptor binding site should possess sterically similar binding surfaces. This principle is used as the basis for an automatic and unbiased method that superposes molecules. One molecule is rotated and trans...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Perkins TD,Mills JE,Dean PM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacophore methods provide a way of establishing a structure activity relationship for a series of known active ligands. Often, there are several plausible hypotheses that could explain the same set of ligands and, in such cases, it is important that the chemist is presented with alternatives that can be tested wit...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Cottrell SJ,Gillet VJ,Taylor R,Wilton DJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Furanopyrimidine 1 (IC50 = 273 nM, LE = 0.36, LELP = 10.28) was recently identified by high-throughput screening (HTS) of an in-house library (125,000 compounds) as an Aurora kinase inhibitor. Structure-based hit optimization resulted in lead molecules with in vivo efficacy in a mouse tumour xenograft model, but no or...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Sarvagalla S,Singh VK,Ke YY,Shiao HY,Lin WH,Hsieh HP,Hsu JT,Coumar MS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmania donovani dipeptidylcarboxypeptidsae (LdDCP), an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) related metallopeptidase has been identified and characterized as a putative drug target for antileishmanial chemotherapy. The kinetic parameters for LdDCP with substrate, Hip-His-Leu were determined as, Km, 4 mM and Vmax, 1...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Baig MS,Kumar A,Siddiqi MI,Goyal N

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The de novo design program Skelgen has been used to design inhibitor structures for four targets of pharmaceutical interest. The designed structures are compared to modeled binding modes of known inhibitors (i) visually and (ii) by means of a novel similarity measure considering the size and spatial proximity of the m...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Stahl M,Todorov NP,James T,Mauser H,Boehm HJ,Dean PM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ligand Design (LUDI) approach has been used in order to design leucine aminopeptidase inhibitors, predict their activity and analyze their interactions with the enzyme. The investigation was based on the crystal structure of bovine lens leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) complexed with its inhibitor--the phosphonic acid...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Grembecka J,Sokalski WA,Kafarski P

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the performance of multiple pose prediction methods for the D3R 2016 Grand Challenge. The pose prediction challenge includes 36 ligands, which represent 4 chemotypes and some miscellaneous structures against the FXR ligand binding domain. In this study we use a mix of fully automated methods as well as hum...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Fradera X,Verras A,Hu Y,Wang D,Wang H,Fells JI,Armacost KA,Crespo A,Sherborne B,Wang H,Peng Z,Gao YD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two new continuum solvation models have been presented recently, and in this paper they are explained and reviewed in detail with further examples. Solvation Model 2 (AM1-SM2) is based on the Austin Model 1 and Solvation Model 3 (PM3-SM3) on the Parameterized Model 3 semiempirical Hamiltonian. In addition to the incor...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Cramer CJ,Truhlar DG

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations of complexes between Norwalk virus RNA dependent RNA polymerase and its natural CTP and 2dCTP (both containing the O5'-C5'-C4'-O4' sequence of atoms bridging the triphosphate and sugar moiety) or modified coCTP (C5'-O5'-C4'-O4'), cocCTP (C5'-O5'-C4'-C4'') substrates were produced by mean...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Maláč K,Barvík I

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent outbreak of the respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is stimulating an unprecedented scientific campaign to alleviate the burden of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One line of research has focused on targeting SARS-CoV-2 proteins fundamental for its replication by repurposing drugs appr...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Deganutti G,Prischi F,Reynolds CA

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex of adenylate kinase with its transition-state inhibitor has been studied by molecular dynamics simulations in water and in vacuum environments with the GROMOS force field over a period of 300 ps. The adenylate kinase, a member of the nucleotide-binding protein family, was exemplarily chosen for the inspect...

journal_title：Journal of computer-aided molecular design

authors： Kern P,Brunne RM,Folkers G

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00