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ReviewFuture medicinal chemistry2011

Thermodynamics-based drug design: strategies for inhibiting protein-protein interactions.

Arne Schön, Sonia Y Lam, Ernesto Freire

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Review in Future medicinal chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. An in Silico Approach Reveals the Potential Function of Cyanidin-3-o-glucoside of Red Rice in Inhibiting the Advanced Glycation End Products (AGES)-Receptor (RAGE) Signaling Pathway.Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Arne SchönDepartment of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Sonia Y Lam
Ernesto Freire

Funding

Understanding Envelope Function in HIV-1 Infection: The Design, Synthesis and Validation of Small Molecule HIV-1 Env InhibitorsP01GM056550 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ABRAMS, CAMERON F · 1997 to 2018
$31.2M
STRUCTURE BASED THERMODYNAMIC STUDIES OF HIV1 PROTEASER01GM057144 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI FREIRE, ERNESTO · 1998 to 2012
$5.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM56550NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM056550NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM057144
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inhibition of protein-protein interactions and their ensuing signaling processes play an increasingly important role in modern medicine. Small molecular-weight inhibitors that can be administered orally are the preferred approach but efficient strategies for developing them are not yet generally available. Due to the large size difference between the protein-protein interface and the small molecule, inhibitor interactions are expected to extend to only a small region of the interface. If this is the case, classical competitive inhibition may be hard to achieve. In addition, competitive inhibition wastes binding energy that can be effectively used to inhibit signaling. The best and most energy-efficient approach would be the development of small molecules that bind at the protein-protein interface and inhibit the signaling process without displacing the protein ligand. This approach seems feasible knowing that the binding energy is not evenly distributed within the binding interface but concentrated in discrete hotspots, and that the initiation of signaling may not overlap with those hotspots. We outline a general protein-protein inhibition model that extends from competitive to noncompetitive scenarios and apply it to the development of HIV-1 gp120-CD4 inhibitors. This rigorous model can be easily applied to the analysis of protein-protein inhibition data and used as a tool in the optimization of inhibitor molecules.

Indexed as

Drug DesignProtein ConformationThermodynamicsAllosteric RegulationBinding, CompetitiveBinding SitesHIV Envelope Protein gp120HumansModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein Interaction MapsProteinsgp120 protein, Human immunodeficiency virus 1HIV Envelope Protein gp120Proteins

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PMID21806377
PMCPMC3164996

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