Hierarchical virtual screening approaches in small molecule drug discovery

A Kumar, KYJ Zhang - Methods, 2015 - Elsevier
Virtual screening has played a significant role in the discovery of small molecule inhibitors of
therapeutic targets in last two decades. Various ligand and structure-based virtual screening …

History and Perspectives of A2A Adenosine Receptor Antagonists as Potential Therapeutic Agents

D Preti, PG Baraldi, AR Moorman… - Medicinal research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Growing evidence emphasizes that the purine nucleoside adenosine plays an active role as
a local regulator in different pathologies. Adenosine is a ubiquitous nucleoside involved in …

AI-based identification of therapeutic agents targeting GPCRs: introducing ligand type classifiers and systems biology

J Goßen, RP Ribeiro, D Bier, B Neumaier, P Carloni… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Identifying ligands targeting G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) with novel chemotypes
other than the physiological ligands is a challenge for in silico screening campaigns. Here …

G protein-coupled adenosine (P1) and P2Y receptors: ligand design and receptor interactions

KA Jacobson, R Balasubramanian, F Deflorian… - Purinergic …, 2012 - Springer
The medicinal chemistry and pharmacology of the four subtypes of adenosine receptors
(ARs) and the eight subtypes of P2Y receptors (P2YRs, activated by a range of purine and …

Structurally Enabled Discovery of Adenosine A2A Receptor Antagonists

A Jazayeri, SP Andrews, FH Marshall - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade there has been a revolution in the field of G protein-coupled receptor
(GPCR) structural biology. Many years of innovative research from different areas have …

Structure‐based and fragment‐based GPCR drug discovery

SP Andrews, GA Brown, JA Christopher - ChemMedChem, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) are an important family of membrane proteins;
historically, drug discovery in this target class has been fruitful, with many of the world's top …

Dual Targeting of Adenosine A2A Receptors and Monoamine Oxidase B by 4H-3,1-Benzothiazin-4-ones

A Stößel, M Schlenk, S Hinz… - Journal of medicinal …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Blockade of A2A adenosine receptors (A2AARs) and inhibition of monoamine oxidase B
(MAO-B) in the brain are considered attractive strategies for the treatment of …

New insights for drug design from the X-ray crystallographic structures of G-protein-coupled receptors

KA Jacobson, S Costanzi - Molecular pharmacology, 2012 - ASPET
Methodological advances in X-ray crystallography have made possible the recent solution of
X-ray structures of pharmaceutically important G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) …

Structure-based drug design for G protein-coupled receptors

M Congreve, JM Dias, FH Marshall - Progress in medicinal chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the structural biology of G protein-coupled receptors has undergone a
transformation over the past 5 years. New protein–ligand complexes are described almost …

Structural and Energetic Effects of A2A Adenosine Receptor Mutations on Agonist and Antagonist Binding

H Keränen, H Gutiérrez-de-Terán, J Åqvist - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
To predict structural and energetic effects of point mutations on ligand binding is of
considerable interest in biochemistry and pharmacology. This is not only useful in …