Halogenated baicalein as a promising antiviral agent toward SARS-CoV-2 main protease

K Hengphasatporn, P Wilasluck… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The coronavirus disease pandemic is a constant reminder that global citizens are in
imminent danger of exposure to emerging infectious diseases. Therefore, developing a …

Identification of key interactions between SARS-CoV-2 main protease and inhibitor drug candidates

R Yoshino, N Yasuo, M Sekijima - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The number of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
infection (COVID-19) has reached over 114,000. SARS-CoV-2 caused a pandemic in …

The thiol-polyamine metabolism of Trypanosoma cruzi: molecular targets and drug repurposing strategies

A Talevi, C Carrillo, M Comini - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Chagas´ disease continues to be a challenging and neglected public health problem in
many American countries. The etiologic agent, Trypanosoma cruzi, develops intracellularly …

Unique thiol metabolism in trypanosomatids: Redox homeostasis and drug resistance

V Ali, S Behera, A Nawaz, A Equbal, K Pandey - Advances in Parasitology, 2022 - Elsevier
Trypanosomatids are mainly responsible for heterogeneous parasitic diseases:
Leishmaniasis, Sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease and control of these diseases …

IEV2Mol: Molecular Generative Model Considering Protein–Ligand Interaction Energy Vectors

M Ozawa, S Nakamura, N Yasuo… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Generating drug candidates with desired protein–ligand interactions is a significant
challenge in structure-based drug design. In this study, a new generative model, IEV2Mol, is …

Molecular dynamics simulation reveals the mechanism by which the influenza cap-dependent endonuclease acquires resistance against baloxavir marboxil

R Yoshino, N Yasuo, M Sekijima - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Baloxavir marboxil (BXM), an antiviral drug for influenza virus, inhibits RNA replication by
binding to RNA replication cap-dependent endonuclease (CEN) of influenza A and B …

Integrating Ligand and Target-Driven Based Virtual Screening Approaches With in vitro Human Cell Line Models and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Resonance …

G Tutumlu, B Dogan, T Avsar, MD Orhan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Antiapoptotic members of B-cell leukemia/lymphoma-2 (BCL-2) family proteins are one of
the overexpressed proteins in cancer cells that are oncogenic targets. As such, targeting of …

Exploring the selectivity of inhibitor complexes with Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL: A molecular dynamics simulation approach

N Wakui, R Yoshino, N Yasuo, M Ohue… - Journal of Molecular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) family proteins are potential drug targets in cancer and
have a relatively flat and flexible binding site. ABT-199 is one of the most promising selective …

Gargoyles: An open source graph-based molecular optimization method based on deep reinforcement learning

D Erikawa, N Yasuo, T Suzuki, S Nakamura… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Automatic optimization methods for compounds in the vast compound space are important
for drug discovery and material design. Several machine learning-based molecular …

A prospective compound screening contest identified broader inhibitors for Sirtuin 1

S Chiba, M Ohue, A Gryniukova, P Borysko… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Potential inhibitors of a target biomolecule, NAD-dependent deacetylase Sirtuin 1, were
identified by a contest-based approach, in which participants were asked to propose a …