Abstract：
:Enzymes are essential, physiological catalysts involved in all processes of life, including metabolism, cellular signaling and motility, as well as cell growth and division. They are attractive drug targets because of the presence of defined substrate-binding pockets, which can be exploited as binding sites for pharmaceutical enzyme inhibitors. Understanding the reaction mechanisms of enzymes and the molecular mode of action of enzyme inhibitors is indispensable for the discovery and development of potent, efficacious, and safe novel drugs. The combination of classical concepts of enzymology with new experimental and data analysis methods opens new routes for drug discovery.
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Drug Discov Todayjournal_title
Drug discovery todayauthors
Rufer ACdoi
10.1016/j.drudis.2021.01.006subject
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2021-01-14 00:00:00eissn
1359-6446issn
1878-5832pii
S1359-6446(21)00006-4pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:This review illustrates notable recent progress in the field of medicinal bioinorganic chemistry as many new approaches to the design of innovative metal-based anticancer drugs are emerging. Current research addressing the problems associated with platinum drugs has focused on other metal-based therapeutics that have ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2009.09.003
更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Although the oral route is the most popular and acceptable way of drug administration owing to good patient compliance and safety, oral drug delivery is faced with continuous challenges regarding poorly soluble, poorly permeable or gastrointestinally unstable drugs such as proteins and polypeptides. The overall bioava...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2014.03.001
更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In recent years, there have been significant developments made in the way new drugs are being discovered and developed. Such changes are driven by new technologies that have expanded the opportunities to prepare and screen large libraries of compounds in a rapid time frame by the use of high-throughput synthesis and s...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/S1359-6446(04)03298-2
更新日期：2005-01-15 00:00:00
abstract：:The global burden of herpes simplex virus (HSV) legitimates the critical need to develop new prevention strategies, such as drugs and vaccines that are able to fight either primary HSV infections or reactivations. Moreover, the ever-growing number of patients receiving transplants increases the number of severe HSV in...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2016.03.003
更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drug-delivery technologies for modified drug release have been in existence for decades, but their utilization has been largely limited to post-launch efforts improving therapeutic outcomes. Recently, they have gained renewed importance because the pharmaceutical industry is steadily shifting to a more integrated disc...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.12.008
更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00
abstract：:Immunoinformatics has recently emerged as a critical field for accelerating immunology research. Although still an evolving process, computational models now play instrumental roles, not only in directing the selection of key experiments, but also in the formulation of new testable hypotheses through detailed analysis...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2009.04.001
更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A drug molecule should bind to its target with high affinity and selectivity. Because the binding affinity is a combined function of the binding enthalpy and the binding entropy, extremely high affinity requires that both terms contribute favorably to binding. The binding enthalpy, however, is notoriously more difficu...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2008.07.005
更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The choroid plexus (CP) is a highly vascularized organ located in the brain ventricles and contains a single epithelial cell layer forming the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB). This barrier is crucial for immune surveillance in health and is an underestimated gate for entry of immune cells during numerous inf...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2015.05.003
更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative pathology of the central nervous system, mainly involving the selective and progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons from the substantia nigra, resulting in motor and non-motor symptoms. PD remains an incurable ailment; thus, treatments are limited to symptom alleviation...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2019.09.004
更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and lethal human malignancies. Drug therapies and radiotherapy are used for treatment as adjuvants to surgery, but outcomes remain disappointing. Advances in tissue engineering suggest that 3D cultures can reflect the in vivo tumor microenvironment and can guarantee a ph...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2017.01.012
更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:High-information screening formats, using more physiologically relevant cellular models and readout approaches, are slowly replacing traditional, target-orientated approaches in drug discovery programs. With improved access to primary cells, as well as label-free, non-intrusive methods of compound interrogation (such ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2010.02.010
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Identification and validation of viable targets is an important first step in drug discovery and new methods, and integrated approaches are continuously explored to improve the discovery rate and exploration of new drug targets. An in silico machine learning method, support vector machines, has been explored as a new ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2007.02.015
更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An overview of drugs approved by FDA in 2016 reveals dramatic disruptions in long-term trends. The number of new molecular entities (NMEs) dropped, reflecting the lowest rate of small-molecule approvals observed in almost five decades. In addition, the pace of industry consolidation slowed substantially. The impact of...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2017.06.011
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Novel neuroprotective therapies are desperately needed to improve neuronal recovery after ischemic stroke and extend the therapeutic window or offset some of the adverse effects of tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA). These advances could provide a more effective and safe therapeutic regimen for patients with isch...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2018.02.011
更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Concerns emanating from the medical community about the safety and efficacy of biosimilars indicate an increasing distrust of the outcome of the drug regulatory process. To illustrate this, we analysed the creation of the European biosimilar regulatory framework, specifically focussing on the guidelines outlining appr...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2011.09.018
更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:New precompetitive ways of working in the pharmaceutical industry are driving the development of new informatics systems to enable their execution and management. The European Lead Factory (ELF) is a precompetitive, 30-partner collaboration between academic groups, small-medium enterprises and pharmaceutical companies...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2015.11.005
更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drug delivery systems are undergoing technology changes to enhance patient comfort and compliance. Electronic drug delivery (E-drug delivery) systems are being developed to regulate drug dose delivery by easy monitoring of doses, especially in chronic and age-related diseases. E-drug delivery can monitor the correct d...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2019.02.005
更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The pharmacological and adverse effect profiles of the two approved therapies for IPF make the development of new therapies challenging. Considering the similarity of the characteristics of drug candidates to Standard of Care is important in defining positioning and development strategies for this disease. ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2020.09.019
更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Biomedical scientists tend to focus on only a small fraction of the proteins encoded by the human genome despite overwhelming genetic evidence that many understudied proteins are important for human disease. One of the best ways to interrogate the function of a protein and to determine its relevance as a drug target i...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2019.06.020
更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Monitor provides an insight into the latest developments in drug discovery through brief synopses of recent presentations and publications together with expert commentaries on the latest technologies. There are two sections: Molecules summarizes the chemistry and the pharmacological significance and biological relevan...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s1359-6446(99)01410-5
更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gene expression microarrays have been used widely to address increasingly complex biological questions and to produce an unprecedented amount of data, but have yet to realize their full potential. The interpretation of microarray data remains a major challenge because of the complexity of the underlying biological net...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/S1359-6446(05)03565-8
更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Allosteric modulators have the potential to fine-tune protein functional activity. Therefore, the targeting of allosteric sites, as a strategy in drug design, is gaining increasing attention. Currently, it is not trivial to find and characterize new allosteric sites by experimental approaches. Alternatively, computati...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2014.07.012
更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:There is a continuing need to hasten and improve protein-ligand docking to facilitate the next generation of drug discovery. As the drug-like chemical space reaches into the billions of molecules, increasingly powerful computer systems are required to probe, as well as tackle, the software engineering challenges neede...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2016.06.023
更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Current multiparameter optimization (MPO) strategies make use of few experimental physicochemical descriptors (i.e., solubility at physiological pH and lipophilicity in the octanol/water system). Here, we show how new trends in drug discovery (i.e., large and flexible molecules for 'difficult' targets) call for the in...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2016.11.017
更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Statins are an established therapeutic modality for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia. Although they generally exhibit a good efficacy and tolerability profile, their reputation has been tarnished as a result of reports of myotoxicity and, more recently, observations of proteinuria. The increased incidence of prot...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2006.03.017
更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Carcinomas overexpressing EGFR family receptors are of high clinical importance, because the receptors have prognostic value and are used as molecular targets for anticancer therapy. Insufficient drug efficacy necessitates further in-depth research of the receptor biology and improvement in preclinical stages of drug ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2018.09.003
更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Regenerative approaches are promising avenues to effectively cure diseases rather than merely treating symptoms, but are associated with concerns around proliferation in other organs. Given that targeted delivery holds the promise of delivering a drug precisely to its desired site of action, usually with the prospect ...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.drudis.2016.12.004
更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Transdermal drug delivery offers an attractive alternative to the conventional drug delivery methods of oral administration and injection. However, the stratum corneum acts as a barrier that limits the penetration of substances through the skin. Application of ultrasound to the skin increases its permeability (sonopho...
journal_title：Drug discovery today
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/S1359-6446(04)03170-8
更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00
