Impact of Binding Site Comparisons on Medicinal Chemistry and Rational Molecular Design

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• 作者：Christiane Ehrt ; Tobias Brinkjost ; Oliver Koch
• 刊名：Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 12, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：59
• 期：9
• 页码：4121-4151
• 全文大小：1331K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-4804

文摘

Modern rational drug design not only deals with the search for ligands binding to interesting and promising validated targets but also aims to identify the function and ligands of yet uncharacterized proteins having impact on different diseases. Additionally, it contributes to the design of inhibitors with distinct selectivity patterns and the prediction of possible off-target effects. The identification of similarities between binding sites of various proteins is a useful approach to cope with those challenges. The main scope of this perspective is to describe applications of different protein binding site comparison approaches to outline their applicability and impact on molecular design. The article deals with various substantial application domains and provides some outstanding examples to show how various binding site comparison methods can be applied to promote in silico drug design workflows. In addition, we will also briefly introduce the fundamental principles of different protein binding site comparison methods.