Druggable transient pockets in protein kinases

K Umezawa, I Kii - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drug discovery using small molecule inhibitors is reaching a stalemate due to low selectivity,
adverse off-target effects and inevitable failures in clinical trials. Conventional chemical …

Prediction of protein–ligand binding affinity via deep learning models

H Wang - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Accurately predicting the binding affinity between proteins and ligands is crucial in drug
screening and optimization, but it is still a challenge in computer-aided drug design. The …

Active site sequence representations of human kinases outperform full sequence representations for affinity prediction and inhibitor generation: 3D effects in a 1D …

J Born, T Huynh, A Stroobants… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in deep learning have enabled the development of large-scale multimodal
models for virtual screening and de novo molecular design. The human kinome with its …

DLSSAffinity: protein–ligand binding affinity prediction via a deep learning model

H Wang, H Liu, S Ning, C Zeng, Y Zhao - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Evaluating the protein–ligand binding affinity is a substantial part of the computer-aided drug
discovery process. Most of the proposed computational methods predict protein–ligand …

Strategy toward kinase-selective drug discovery

M Zhang, Y Liu, H Jang, R Nussinov - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Kinase drug selectivity is the ground challenge in cancer research. Due to the structurally
similar kinase drug pockets, off-target inhibitor toxicity has been a major cause for clinical …

CavitySpace: a database of potential ligand binding sites in the human proteome

S Wang, H Lin, Z Huang, Y He, X Deng, Y Xu, J Pei… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Location and properties of ligand binding sites provide important information to uncover
protein functions and to direct structure-based drug design approaches. However, as …

Protein Kinases and their Inhibitors Implications in Modulating Disease Progression

R Ahsan, MM Khan, A Mishra, G Noor, U Ahmad - The Protein Journal, 2023 - Springer
Protein phosphorylation plays an important role in cellular pathways, including cell cycle
regulation, metabolism, differentiation and survival. The protein kinase superfamily network …

Predicting the activities of drug excipients on biological targets using one-shot learning

X Mi, D Shukla - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Excipients are major components of drugs and are used to improve drug attributes such as
stability and appearance. Excipients approved by the US Food and Drug Administration …

The TAR binding dynamics and its implication in tat degradation mechanism

S Ning, C Zeng, C Zeng, Y Zhao - Biophysical Journal, 2021 - cell.com
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that progressively attacks the human
immune system. It is known that the HIV viral protein Tat recruits the host elongation factor …

Prediction of allosteric druggable pockets of cyclin-dependent kinases

S Ning, H Wang, C Zeng, Y Zhao - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) proteins play crucial roles in the cell cycle progression and
are thus attractive drug targets for therapy against such aberrant cell cycle processes as …