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ReviewChemical reviews2016

Emerging Computational Methods for the Rational Discovery of Allosteric Drugs.

Jeffrey R Wagner, Christopher T Lee, Jacob D Durrant, Robert D Malmstrom, Victoria A Feher, Rommie E Amaro

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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103citing papers in PubMed
16.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

103 citing papers in PubMed, 234 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeffrey R WagnerDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Christopher T LeeDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Jacob D DurrantDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Robert D MalmstromDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Victoria A FeherDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Rommie E AmaroDepartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡National Biomedical Computation Resource, University of California, San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
University of California, San Diego · US

Funding

National Biomedical Computation Resource - Competitive Revision SupplementP41GM103426 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AMARO, ROMMIE E · 2012 to 2019
$14.0M
MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008326 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KOMIVES, ELIZABETH A. · 1989 to 2020
$7.5M
A Structural Systems Biology Approach to Drug DiscoveryDP2OD007237 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI AMARO, ROMMIE E · 2010 to 2015
$2.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103426NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008326NIH HHS DP2 OD007237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allosteric drug development holds promise for delivering medicines that are more selective and less toxic than those that target orthosteric sites. To date, the discovery of allosteric binding sites and lead compounds has been mostly serendipitous, achieved through high-throughput screening. Over the past decade, structural data has become more readily available for larger protein systems and more membrane protein classes (e.g., GPCRs and ion channels), which are common allosteric drug targets. In parallel, improved simulation methods now provide better atomistic understanding of the protein dynamics and cooperative motions that are critical to allosteric mechanisms. As a result of these advances, the field of predictive allosteric drug development is now on the cusp of a new era of rational structure-based computational methods. Here, we review algorithms that predict allosteric sites based on sequence data and molecular dynamics simulations, describe tools that assess the druggability of these pockets, and discuss how Markov state models and topology analyses provide insight into the relationship between protein dynamics and allosteric drug binding. In each section, we first provide an overview of the various method classes before describing relevant algorithms and software packages.

Indexed as

Allosteric RegulationAllosteric SiteDrug DiscoveryMarkov ChainsMolecular Dynamics SimulationMonte Carlo MethodPharmaceutical PreparationsProtein BindingProteinsThermodynamicsPharmaceutical PreparationsProteins

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PMID27074285
PMCPMC4901368
OpenAlexW2339391272

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