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ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2019

Structure-guided fragment-based drug discovery at the synchrotron: screening binding sites and correlations with hotspot mapping.

Sherine E Thomas, Patrick Collins, Rory Hennell James, Vitor Mendes, Sitthivut Charoensutthivarakul, Chris Radoux, Chris Abell, Anthony G Coyne, R Andres Floto, Frank von Delft and 1 more

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Article in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 45 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

11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Sherine E Thomas1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge , Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA , UK.
Patrick Collins2 Diamond Light Source (DLS) , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE , UK.
Rory Hennell James1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge , Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA , UK.
Vitor Mendes1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge , Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA , UK.
Sitthivut Charoensutthivarakul4 Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge , Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW , UK.
Chris Radoux5 The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) , Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD , UK.
Chris Abell4 Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge , Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW , UK.
Anthony G Coyne4 Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge , Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW , UK.
R Andres Floto6 Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Royal Papworth Hospital , Cambridge CB23 3RE , UK.
Frank von Delft2 Diamond Light Source (DLS) , Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE , UK.
Tom L Blundell1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge , Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA , UK.
University of Cambridge · GBDiamond Light Source · GBEuropean Bioinformatics Institute · GBMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GBUniversity of Johannesburg · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structure-guided drug discovery emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, stimulated by the three-dimensional structures of protein targets that became available, mainly through X-ray crystal structure analysis, assisted by the development of synchrotron radiation sources. Structures of known drugs or inhibitors were used to guide the development of leads. The growth of high-throughput screening during the late 1980s and the early 1990s in the pharmaceutical industry of chemical libraries of hundreds of thousands of compounds of molecular weight of approximately 500 Da was impressive but still explored only a tiny fraction of the chemical space of the predicted 10

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Bacterial ProteinsBinding SitesDrug DiscoveryHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansModels, MolecularMycobacterium abscessusPeptide FragmentsPeptide SynthasesSynchrotronsBacterial ProteinsPeptide FragmentsPeptide SynthasesPurC protein, Bacteriafragment-based drug discoveryMycobacterium abscessusSAICAR synthetase (PurC)structure-guidedsynchrotron

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PMID31030650
PMCPMC6501894
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