The discovery of potential acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: a combination of pharmacophore modeling, virtual screening, and molecular docking studies

SH Lu, JW Wu, HL Liu, JH Zhao, KT Liu… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2011 - Springer
Virtual screening performed on the NCI database obtained new inhibitors which have the
potential to inhibit AChE and to protect neurons from Aβ toxicity. The hit compounds were …

Virtual screening and hit selection of natural compounds as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

M Atanasova, I Dimitrov, S Ivanov, B Georgiev… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is one of the classical targets in the treatment of Alzheimer’s
disease (AD). Inhibition of AChE slows down the hydrolysis of acetycholine and increases …

Exploring different virtual screening strategies for acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

N Mishra, A Basu - BioMed research international, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… approaches for a universal virtual screening solution. Though … structure based approaches
for virtual screening of AChE. … The following virtual screening tools were used for this study: …

Identification of New Potent Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors Using Virtual Screening and in vitro Approaches

EH Mokrani, A Bensegueni, L Chaput… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… This work aims at identifying new potent AChE inhibitors by combining structure-based virtual
screening (SBVS) and in vitro assays. Docking studies followed by a computational ADME …

Identification of novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitors through e-pharmacophore-based virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations

R Malik, BS Choudhary, S Srivastava… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… Discovery of a novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitor by structure-based virtual screening
Discovery of new acetylcholinesterase inhibitors with small core structures through shape-…

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: structure based design, synthesis, pharmacophore modeling, and virtual screening

KR Valasani, MO Chaney, VW Day… - Journal of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is a main drug target, and its inhibitors have demonstrated
functionality in the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). In this study, a series of …

Discovery of novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitors by virtual screening, in vitro screening, and molecular dynamics simulations

CJ van der Westhuizen, A Stander… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
… of structure-based virtual screening of a commercial … inhibitors with clear enrichment. We
subsequently report the in vitro screening of sections of the library to identify novel inhibitors of …

Efficient method for high-throughput virtual screening based on flexible docking: discovery of novel acetylcholinesterase inhibitors

MY Mizutani, A Itai - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2004 - ACS Publications
inhibitors discovered in this study would not have been hit, if we had used a virtual screening
… had been hit by rigid-docking-based screening, the docking modes with the input ligand …

Recent advances in virtual screening for cholinesterase inhibitors

JA Miles, BP Ross - ACS chemical neuroscience, 2020 - ACS Publications
… , virtual screening techniques such as ligand-based virtual screening (LBVS) and structure-based
virtual screening … well suited for drug discovery using virtual screening due to their well-…

Discovery of new butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors via structure-based virtual screening

N Atatreh, S Al Rawashdah, SS Al Neyadi… - … of Enzyme Inhibition …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… In this study, we used a structure-based virtual screening (VS) approach to discover new
BChE inhibitors. A ligand database was filtered and docked to the BChE protein using Glide …