GPCR dynamics: structures in motion

NR Latorraca, AJ Venkatakrishnan, RO Dror - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The function of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) which represent the largest class of
both human membrane proteins and drug targets depends critically on their ability to …

New paradigms in GPCR drug discovery

KA Jacobson - Biochemical pharmacology, 2015 - Elsevier
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) remain a major domain of pharmaceutical discovery.
The identification of GPCR lead compounds and their optimization are now structure-based …

Discovery of new GPCR ligands to illuminate new biology

BL Roth, JJ Irwin, BK Shoichet - Nature chemical biology, 2017 - nature.com
Although a plurality of drugs target G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), most have
emerged from classical medicinal chemistry and pharmacology programs and resemble one …

Function-specific virtual screening for GPCR ligands using a combined scoring method

AJ Kooistra, HF Vischer, D McNaught-Flores, R Leurs… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The ability of scoring functions to correctly select and rank docking poses of small molecules
in protein binding sites is highly target dependent, which presents a challenge for structure …

Understanding membrane protein drug targets in computational perspective

J Gong, Y Chen, F Pu, P Sun, F He, L Zhang… - Current Drug …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Membrane proteins play crucial physiological roles in vivo and are the major category of
drug targets for pharmaceuticals. The research on membrane protein is a significant part in …

Fragment optimization for GPCRs by molecular dynamics free energy calculations: Probing druggable subpockets of the A2A adenosine receptor binding site

P Matricon, A Ranganathan, E Warnick, ZG Gao… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Fragment-based lead discovery is becoming an increasingly popular strategy for drug
discovery. Fragment screening identifies weakly binding compounds that require …

Docking screens for dual inhibitors of disparate drug targets for Parkinson's disease

M Jaiteh, A Zeifman, M Saarinen… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Modulation of multiple biological targets with a single drug can lead to synergistic
therapeutic effects and has been demonstrated to be essential for efficient treatment of CNS …

Submolecular probing of the complement C5a receptor–ligand binding reveals a cooperative two-site binding mechanism

AC Dumitru, RNVK Deepak, H Liu, M Koehler… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
A current challenge to produce effective therapeutics is to accurately determine the location
of the ligand-biding site and to characterize its properties. So far, the mechanisms …

Selectivity challenges in docking screens for GPCR targets and antitargets

DR Weiss, J Karpiak, XP Huang… - Journal of medicinal …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To investigate large library docking's ability to find molecules with joint activity against on-
targets and selectivity versus antitargets, the dopamine D2 and serotonin 5-HT2A receptors …

Molecular docking and drug discovery in β-adrenergic receptors

S Vilar, E Sobarzo-Sanchez… - Current medicinal …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Evolution in computer engineering, availability of increasing amounts of data
and the development of new and fast docking algorithms and software have led to improved …