[HTML][HTML] Past, present, and future perspectives on computer-aided drug design methodologies

D Bassani, S Moro - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
The application of computational approaches in drug discovery has been consolidated in
the last decades. These families of techniques are usually grouped under the common …

[HTML][HTML] Lessons learnt from COVID-19: computational strategies for facing present and future pandemics

M Pavan, S Moro - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since its outbreak in December 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the death of
more than 6.5 million people around the world. The high transmissibility of its causative …

[HTML][HTML] Revolutionizing anti-cancer drug discovery against breast cancer and lung cancer by modification of natural genistein: an advanced computational and drug …

S Akash, S Bibi, P Biswas, N Mukerjee, DA Khan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Breast and lung cancer are two of the most lethal forms of cancer, responsible for a
disproportionately high number of deaths worldwide. Both doctors and cancer patients …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal titration molecular dynamics (TTMD): Not your usual post-docking refinement

S Menin, M Pavan, V Salmaso, M Sturlese… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is one of the most widely used computational approaches in the field of
rational drug design, thanks to its favorable balance between the rapidity of execution and …

[HTML][HTML] Structural manipulations of marine natural products inspire a new library of 3-amino-1, 2, 4-triazine PDK inhibitors endowed with antitumor activity in …

D Carbone, M De Franco, C Pecoraro, D Bassani… - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the main aggressive types of cancer,
characterized by late prognosis and drug resistance. Among the main factors sustaining …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the I7L Protease: A Rational Design for Anti-Monkeypox Drugs?

A Dodaro, M Pavan, S Moro - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The latest monkeypox virus outbreak in 2022 showcased the potential threat of this viral
zoonosis to public health. The lack of specific treatments against this infection and the …

Cheminformatics-based identification of phosphorylated RET tyrosine kinase inhibitors for human cancer

MEK Talukder, M Aktaruzzaman, NH Siddiquee… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Rearranged during transfection (RET), an oncogenic protein, is associated with
various cancers, including non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), papillary thyroid cancer …

Toward α‐1, 3/4 fucosyltransferases targeted drug discovery: In silico uncovering of promising natural inhibitors of fucosyltransferase 6

JSL Magdaleno, RK Grewal… - Journal of Cellular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sialyl Lewis X (sLex) antigen is a fucosylated cell‐surface glycan that is normally
involved in cell‐cell interactions. The enhanced expression of sLex on cell surface glycans …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal titration molecular dynamics (TTMD): shedding light on the stability of RNA-small molecule complexes

A Dodaro, M Pavan, S Menin, V Salmaso… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ribonucleic acids are gradually becoming relevant players among putative drug targets,
thanks to the increasing amount of structural data exploitable for the rational design of …

Lipid Trolling to Optimize A3 Adenosine Receptor-Positive Allosteric Modulators (PAMs)

B Pradhan, M Pavan, CL Fisher… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
A3 adenosine receptor (A3AR) positive allosteric modulators (PAMs)(2, 4-disubstituted-1 H-
imidazo [4, 5-c] quinolin-4-amines) allosterically increase the E max of A3AR agonists, but …