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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Integrated Computational Approaches and Tools forAllosteric Drug Discovery.

Olivier Sheik Amamuddy, Wayde Veldman, Colleen Manyumwa, Afrah Khairallah, Steve Agajanian, Odeyemi Oluyemi, Gennady Verkhivker, Ozlem Tastan Bishop

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Mapping Allosteric Communication in the Nucleosome with Conditional Activity.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  6. How residence time works in allosteric drugs.Current opinion in structural biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Olivier Sheik AmamuddyResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University,Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-1781-1382
Wayde VeldmanResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University,Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-2747-7146
Colleen ManyumwaResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University,Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-8720-9733
Afrah KhairallahResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University,Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-4838-7032
Steve AgajanianGraduate Program in Computational and Data Sciences, Keck Center for Science and Engineering, SchmidCollege of Science and Technology, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, California 92866,USA.
Odeyemi OluyemiGraduate Program in Computational and Data Sciences, Keck Center for Science and Engineering, SchmidCollege of Science and Technology, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, California 92866,USA.
Gennady VerkhivkerGraduate Program in Computational and Data Sciences, Keck Center for Science and Engineering, SchmidCollege of Science and Technology, Chapman University, One University Drive, Orange, California 92866,USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4507-4471
Ozlem Tastan BishopResearch Unit in Bioinformatics (RUBi), Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University,Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6861-7849

Funding

Grand Challenges Africa: Drug Discovery Program GCA/DD/rnd3/023Kay Family Foundation Grant A20-0032National Institutes of Health Common Fund grant number U41HG006941National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa 105267Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) 3240287275
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding molecular mechanisms underlying the complexity of allosteric regulationin proteins has attracted considerable attention in drug discovery due to the benefits and versatilityof allosteric modulators in providing desirable selectivity against protein targets while minimizingtoxicity and other side effects. The proliferation of novel computational approaches for predictingligand-protein interactions and binding using dynamic and network-centric perspectives has ledto new insights into allosteric mechanisms and facilitated computer-based discovery of allostericdrugs. Although no absolute method of experimental and

Indexed as

Allosteric RegulationComputational BiologyComputer-Aided DesignComputer SimulationDrug DiscoveryHumansLigandsModels, MolecularPharmaceutical PreparationsPrecision MedicineProteinsStructure-Activity RelationshipLigandsPharmaceutical PreparationsProteinsallosteric modulatorsAllosterydrug resistanceMD-TASKnetwork analysisprecision medicine

Identifiers

PMID32013012
PMCPMC7036869

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