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ReviewMarine drugs2020

Recent Advances in Molecular Docking for the Research and Discovery of Potential Marine Drugs.

Guilin Chen, Armel Jackson Seukep, Mingquan Guo

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Review in Marine drugs, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers.

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78citing papers in PubMed
12.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

78 citing papers in PubMed, 191 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guilin ChenKey Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement & Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
Armel Jackson SeukepKey Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement & Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5501-3111
Mingquan GuoKey Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement & Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Buea · CM

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81673580National Natural Science Foundation of China 81903791Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province 2019CFB254Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2020337
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marine drugs have long been used and exhibit unique advantages in clinical practices. Among the marine drugs that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the protein-ligand interactions, such as cytarabine-DNA polymerase, vidarabine-adenylyl cyclase, and eribulin-tubulin complexes, are the important mechanisms of action for their efficacy. However, the complex and multi-targeted components in marine medicinal resources, their bio-active chemical basis, and mechanisms of action have posed huge challenges in the discovery and development of marine drugs so far, which need to be systematically investigated in-depth. Molecular docking could effectively predict the binding mode and binding energy of the protein-ligand complexes and has become a major method of computer-aided drug design (CADD), hence this powerful tool has been widely used in many aspects of the research on marine drugs. This review introduces the basic principles and software of the molecular docking and further summarizes the applications of this method in marine drug discovery and design, including the early virtual screening in the drug discovery stage, drug target discovery, potential mechanisms of action, and the prediction of drug metabolism. In addition, this review would also discuss and prospect the problems of molecular docking, in order to provide more theoretical basis for clinical practices and new marine drug research and development.

Indexed as

Molecular Docking SimulationAnimalsAquatic OrganismsArtificial IntelligenceBiological ProductsHumansMolecular StructureMolecular Targeted TherapyProtein BindingSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipBiological Productsmarine drugsmechanism of actionmolecular dockingprotein–ligand interactiontarget protein

Identifiers

PMID33143025
PMCPMC7692358
OpenAlexW3095849807

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