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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

A comprehensive study of SARS-CoV-2 mfigain protease (Mpro) inhibitor-resistant mutants selected in a VSV-based system

F Costacurta, A Dodaro, D Bante, H Schöppe… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Nirmatrelvir was the first protease inhibitor specifically developed against the SARS-CoV-2
main protease (3CLpro/Mpro) and licensed for clinical use. As SARS-CoV-2 continues to …

Molecular modeling unveils the effective interaction of B-RAF inhibitors with rare B-RAF insertion variants

MC Scaini, L Piccin, D Bassani, A Scapinello… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved MAPK inhibitors as a treatment for
melanoma patients carrying a mutation in codon V600 of the BRAF gene exclusively …

2-Substituted (N)-Methanocarba A3 Adenosine Receptor Agonists: In Silico, In Vitro, and In Vivo Characterization

DK Tosh, M Pavan, C Cronin, E Pottie… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
2-Arylethynyl (N)-methanocarba adenosine 5′-methylamides are selective A3 adenosine
receptor (AR) agonists containing a preestablished receptor-preferred pseudoribose …

Structural Investigations on 2-Amidobenzimidazole Derivatives as New Inhibitors of Protein Kinase CK1 Delta

S Calenda, D Catarzi, F Varano, E Vigiani, R Volpini… - Pharmaceuticals, 2024 - mdpi.com
Protein kinase CK1δ (CK1δ) is a serine-threonine/kinase that modulates different
physiological processes, including the cell cycle, DNA repair, and apoptosis. CK1δ …

A second life for the crystallographic structure of Berenil-dodecanucleotide complex: a computational revisitation thirty years after its publication

G Novello, A Dodaro, S Menin… - Medicinal Chemistry …, 2024 - Springer
This study revisits the pioneering work of Professor Neidle, and co-workers, on the crystal
structure of complexes formed between groove binders and DNA sequences. The original …