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ArticleNature2019

Ultra-large library docking for discovering new chemotypes.

Jiankun Lyu, Sheng Wang, Trent E Balius, Isha Singh, Anat Levit, Yurii S Moroz, Matthew J O'Meara, Tao Che, Enkhjargal Algaa, Kateryna Tolmachova and 4 more

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Article in Nature, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 457 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

457 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Jiankun LyuDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sheng WangState Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
Trent E BaliusDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Isha SinghDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Anat LevitDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Yurii S MorozNational Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine.
Matthew J O'MearaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Tao CheDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Enkhjargal AlgaaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kateryna TolmachovaEnamine, Kiev, Ukraine.
Andrey A TolmachevEnamine, Kiev, Ukraine.
Brian K ShoichetDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. bshoichet@gmail.com.
Bryan L RothDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. bryan_roth@med.unc.edu.
John J IrwinDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. jir322@gmail.com.

Funding

Virology Research Program (Program 4)P30CA016086 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI David Darr · 1985 to 2026
$201.5M
Illuminating the Druggable GPCR-omeU24DK116195 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ROTH, BRYAN L., SHOICHET, BRIAN K · 2017 to 2022
$14.3M
Development and Testing of New Computational Methods for Ligand Discovery and MechanismR35GM122481 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Brian K Shoichet · 2017 to 2026
$8.5M
Molecular Details of Psychoactive Drug ActionsR01MH112205 · NIMH · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Bryan L. Roth, Brian K Shoichet · 2017 to 2026
$6.1M
A Web-Based Automatic Virtual Screening SystemR01GM071896 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO · PI IRWIN, JOHN J. · 2004 to 2024
$6.0M
Regulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis by Cholecystokinin-Expressing InterneuronsF31NS093917 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI OLSEN, REID HANS JOHNSON · 2015 to 2017
$103k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016086NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK116195NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM071896NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122481NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH112205NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS093917
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite intense interest in expanding chemical space, libraries containing hundreds-of-millions to billions of diverse molecules have remained inaccessible. Here we investigate structure-based docking of 170 million make-on-demand compounds from 130 well-characterized reactions. The resulting library is diverse, representing over 10.7 million scaffolds that are otherwise unavailable. For each compound in the library, docking against AmpC β-lactamase (AmpC) and the D

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Bacterial Proteinsbeta-Lactamase Inhibitorsbeta-LactamasesCrystallography, X-RayDopamine AgonistsHumansLigandsMachine LearningMolecular Docking SimulationObservationReceptors, Dopamine D4Small Molecule LibrariesAmpC beta-lactamasesBacterial Proteinsbeta-Lactamase Inhibitorsbeta-LactamasesDopamine AgonistsLigandsReceptors, Dopamine D4Small Molecule Libraries

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PMID30728502
PMCPMC6383769

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