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ArticleChemMedChem2019

DUckCov: a Dynamic Undocking-Based Virtual Screening Protocol for Covalent Binders.

Moira Rachman, Andrea Scarpino, Dávid Bajusz, Gyula Pálfy, István Vida, András Perczel, Xavier Barril, György M Keserű

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Article in ChemMedChem, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Moira RachmanFacultat de Farmàcia and Institut de Biomedicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII 27-31, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
Andrea ScarpinoMedicinal Chemistry Research Group, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
Dávid BajuszMedicinal Chemistry Research Group, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
Gyula PálfyLaboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biology & MTA-ELTE Protein Modelling Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
István VidaLaboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biology & MTA-ELTE Protein Modelling Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
András PerczelLaboratory of Structural Chemistry and Biology & MTA-ELTE Protein Modelling Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.
Xavier BarrilFacultat de Farmàcia and Institut de Biomedicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII 27-31, 08028, Barcelona, Spain.
György M KeserűMedicinal Chemistry Research Group, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, 1117, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-1039-7809
Eötvös Loránd University · HUHUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences · HUInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ESUniversitat de Barcelona · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thanks to recent guidelines, the design of safe and effective covalent drugs has gained significant interest. Other than targeting non-conserved nucleophilic residues, optimizing the noncovalent binding framework is important to improve potency and selectivity of covalent binders toward the desired target. Significant efforts have been made in extending the computational toolkits to include a covalent mechanism of protein targeting, like in the development of covalent docking methods for binding mode prediction. To highlight the value of the noncovalent complex in the covalent binding process, here we describe a new protocol using tethered and constrained docking in combination with Dynamic Undocking (DUck) as a tool to privilege strong protein binders for the identification of novel covalent inhibitors. At the end of the protocol, dedicated covalent docking methods were used to rank and select the virtual hits based on the predicted binding mode. By validating the method on JAK3 and KRas, we demonstrate how this fast iterative protocol can be applied to explore a wide chemical space and identify potent targeted covalent inhibitors.

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ApoptosisBinding SitesCell LineCell SurvivalEnzyme InhibitorsEscherichia coliHumansJanus Kinase 3Molecular Docking SimulationProtein BindingProtein ConformationProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Recombinant ProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesSoftwareStructure-Activity RelationshipEnzyme InhibitorsJanus Kinase 3KRAS protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Recombinant ProteinsSmall Molecule Librariescovalent dockingdynamic undockingtargeted covalent inhibitorsvirtual screening

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