Current trends in computer aided drug design and a highlight of drugs discovered via computational techniques: A review

VT Sabe, T Ntombela, LA Jhamba… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Computer-aided drug design (CADD) is one of the pivotal approaches to contemporary pre-
clinical drug discovery, and various computational techniques and software programs are …

Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Z Zhang, L Zhou, N Xie, EC Nice, T Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ever present hurdles for the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy have necessitated
the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the development of old …

End-point binding free energy calculation with MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA: strategies and applications in drug design

E Wang, H Sun, J Wang, Z Wang, H Liu… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) and molecular
mechanics generalized Born surface area (MM/GBSA) are arguably very popular methods …

Application of computational biology and artificial intelligence in drug design

Y Zhang, M Luo, P Wu, S Wu, TY Lee, C Bai - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Traditional drug design requires a great amount of research time and developmental
expense. Booming computational approaches, including computational biology, computer …

Theory and applications of covalent docking in drug discovery: merits and pitfalls

HM Kumalo, S Bhakat, MES Soliman - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
The present art of drug discovery and design of new drugs is based on suicidal irreversible
inhibitors. Covalent inhibition is the strategy that is used to achieve irreversible inhibition …

[HTML][HTML] Virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulation analysis of Forsythoside A as a plant-derived inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro

S Bibi, MS Khan, SA El-Kafrawy, TA Alandijany… - Saudi Pharmaceutical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a more severe strain of
coronavirus (CoV) that was first emerged in China in 2019. Available antiviral drugs could …

Crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface analysis and DFT studies of 5-(adamantan-1-yl)-3-[(4-chlorobenzyl)sulfanyl]-4-methyl-4H-1,2,4-triazole, a potential 11β-HSD1 …

LH Al-Wahaibi, J Joubert, O Blacque, NH Al-Shaalan… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
(Adamantan-1-yl)-3-[(4-chlorobenzyl) sulfanyl]-4-methyl-4 H-1, 2, 4-triazole (4) was
identified as a potential 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) inhibitor and …

Therapeutic targeting of microtubule affinity‐regulating kinase 4 in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases

M Alam, S Ahmed, M Abid, GM Hasan… - Journal of Cellular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microtubule affinity‐regulating kinase 4 (MARK4) is a member of the Ser/Thr protein kinase
family, phosphorylates the microtubule‐connected proteins and plays a vital role in causing …

The design and development of covalent protein-protein interaction inhibitors for cancer treatment

SS Cheng, GJ Yang, W Wang, CH Leung… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are central to a variety of biological processes, and their
dysfunction is implicated in the pathogenesis of a range of human diseases, including …

Discovery of anthocyanins from cranberry extract as pancreatic lipase inhibitors using a combined approach of ultrafiltration, molecular simulation and spectroscopy

L Xie, J Xie, Y Xu, W Chen - Food & function, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Obesity is a chronic disease that has been causing serious problems all over the world.
However, there is a lack of available therapeutic approaches to treat obesity. The FDA …