Bioisosteres of the phenyl ring: recent strategic applications in lead optimization and drug design

MAM Subbaiah, NA Meanwell - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
The benzene moiety is the most prevalent ring system in marketed drugs, underscoring its
historic popularity in drug design either as a pharmacophore or as a scaffold that projects …

Molecular docking: shifting paradigms in drug discovery

L Pinzi, G Rastelli - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Molecular docking is an established in silico structure-based method widely used in drug
discovery. Docking enables the identification of novel compounds of therapeutic interest …

Natural product discovery: past, present, and future

L Katz, RH Baltz - Journal of Industrial Microbiology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Microorganisms have provided abundant sources of natural products which have been
developed as commercial products for human medicine, animal health, and plant crop …

Pharmacogenomics in the clinic

MV Relling, WE Evans - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
After decades of discovery, inherited variations have been identified in approximately 20
genes that affect about 80 medications and are actionable in the clinic. And some …

Resolving the neural circuits of anxiety

GG Calhoon, KM Tye - Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Although anxiety disorders represent a major societal problem demanding new therapeutic
targets, these efforts have languished in the absence of a mechanistic understanding of this …

Profitability of large pharmaceutical companies compared with other large public companies

FD Ledley, SS McCoy, G Vaughan, EG Cleary - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Understanding the profitability of pharmaceutical companies is essential to
formulating evidence-based policies to reduce drug costs while maintaining the industry's …

Oral druggable space beyond the rule of 5: insights from drugs and clinical candidates

BC Doak, B Over, F Giordanetto, J Kihlberg - Chemistry & biology, 2014 - cell.com
The rule of 5 (Ro5) is a set of in silico guidelines applied to drug discovery to prioritize
compounds with an increased likelihood of high oral absorption. It has been influential in …

A diverse suite of pharmaceuticals contaminates stream and riparian food webs

EK Richmond, EJ Rosi, DM Walters, J Fick… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A multitude of biologically active pharmaceuticals contaminate surface waters globally, yet
their presence in aquatic food webs remain largely unknown. Here, we show that over 60 …

Targeting metalloenzymes for therapeutic intervention

AY Chen, RN Adamek, BL Dick, CV Credille… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Metalloenzymes are central to a wide range of essential biological activities, including
nucleic acid modification, protein degradation, and many others. The role of metalloenzymes …

Contributions of pharmaceuticals to DBP formation and developmental toxicity in chlorination of NOM-containing source water

W Li, J Han, X Zhang, G Chen… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pharmaceuticals have been considered a priority group of emerging micropollutants in
source waters in recent years, while their role in the formation and toxicity of disinfection …