Metal–ligand interactions in drug design

L Riccardi, V Genna, M De Vivo - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2018 - nature.com
The fast-growing body of experimental data on metalloenzymes and organometallic
compounds is fostering the exploitation of metal–ligand interactions for the design of new …

The molecular origin of enthalpy/entropy compensation in biomolecular recognition

JM Fox, M Zhao, MJ Fink, K Kang… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Biomolecular recognition can be stubborn; changes in the structures of associating
molecules, or the environments in which they associate, often yield compensating changes …

DOCK 6: Impact of new features and current docking performance

WJ Allen, TE Balius, S Mukherjee… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This manuscript presents the latest algorithmic and methodological developments to the
structure‐based design program DOCK 6.7 focused on an updated internal energy function …

Mechanism of the hydrophobic effect in the biomolecular recognition of arylsulfonamides by carbonic anhydrase

PW Snyder, J Mecinović… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
The hydrophobic effect—a rationalization of the insolubility of nonpolar molecules in water—
is centrally important to biomolecular recognition. Despite extensive research devoted to the …

The love–hate relationship of pyrolysis biochar and water: a perspective

O Das, AK Sarmah - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Biochar is being considered for environmental sustainability by the scientific community and
as a result is extensively investigated for various applications in agriculture, remediation and …

The role of fluorine in glycomimetic drug design

R Hevey - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Glycans are well established to play important roles at various stages of infection and
disease, and ways to modulate these interactions have been sought as novel therapies. The …

Ionic bilateral passivator carboxyethylisothiuronium chloride for CsPbI3-xBrx perovskite solar cells with PCE 20.9% and superior stability

J Huang, H Wang, C Chen, Y Tang, H Yang, D Zhang… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Although the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of all-inorganic perovskite solar cells
(PSCs) have achieved great progress in recent years, poor stability is still the critical issue …

Reducing the Lipophilicity of Perfluoroalkyl Groups by CF2–F/CF2–Me or CF3/CH3 Exchange

B Jeffries, Z Wang, J Graton, SD Holland… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Fluorination is commonly employed to optimize bioactivity and pharmaco-kinetic properties
of drug candidates. Aliphatic fluorination often reduces the lipophilicity (log P), but …

Is it the shape of the cavity, or the shape of the water in the cavity?

PW Snyder, MR Lockett, DT Moustakas… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
Historical interpretations of the thermodynamics characterizing biomolecular recognition
have marginalized the role of water. An important (even, perhaps, dominant) contribution to …

Oxidative stress and mitochondrial complex I dysfunction correlate with neurodegeneration in an α-synucleinopathy animal model

A Morales-Martínez, PA Martínez-Gómez… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The α-synucleinopathies constitute a subset of neurodegenerative disorders, of which
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common worldwide, characterized by the accumulation …