Efficient identification of chemical probes for the manipulation and understanding of biological systems demands specificity for target proteins. Computational means to optimize candidate compound selection for experimental selectivity evaluation are...
The journal of physical chemistry letters
Jul 22, 2019
It has been demonstrated that MMP13 enzyme is related to most cancer cell tumors. The world's largest traditional Chinese medicine database was applied to screen for structure-based drug design and ligand-based drug design. To predict drug activity, ...
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can mechanistically explain receptor function. However, the enormous data sets that they may imply can be a hurdle. Plante and colleagues (Molecules, 2019) recently described a machine learning approach to the anal...
Machine learning plays an important role in ligand-based virtual screening. However, conventional machine learning approaches tend to be inefficient when dealing with such problems where the data are imbalanced and features describing the chemical ch...
Identification of drug-target interactions (DTIs) plays a key role in drug discovery. The high cost and labor-intensive nature of in vitro and in vivo experiments have highlighted the importance of in silico-based DTI prediction approaches. In severa...
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a key role in many cellular signaling mechanisms, and must select among multiple coupling possibilities in a ligand-specific manner in order to carry out a myriad of functions in diverse cellular contexts. Muc...
A virtual screening protocol based on machine learning models was used to identify mimetics of the natural product (-)-galantamine. This fully automated approach identified eight compounds with bioactivities on at least one of the macromolecular targ...
Current opinion in structural biology
Apr 18, 2019
GPCRs constitute the largest druggable family having targets for 475 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs. As GPCRs are of great interest to pharmaceutical industry, enormous efforts are being expended to find relevant and potent GPCR li...
Current opinion in structural biology
Mar 23, 2019
While G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest class of membrane proteins, structures and endogenous ligands of a large portion of GPCRs remain unknown. Because of the involvement of GPCRs in various signaling pathways and physiolog...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Mar 18, 2019
Virtual screening is a promising method for obtaining novel hit compounds in drug discovery. It aims to enrich potentially active compounds from a large chemical library for further biological experiments. However, the accuracy of current virtual scr...