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ArticleJournal of computer-aided molecular design2021

Druggable hot spots in trypanothione reductase: novel insights and opportunities for drug discovery revealed by DRUGpy.

Olivia Teixeira, Pedro Lacerda, Thamires Quadros Froes, Maria Cristina Nonato, Marcelo Santos Castilho

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Article in Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Olivia TeixeiraLaboratorio de Cristalografia de Proteínas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto - USP, Address Av. do Café, s/n - Vila Monte Alegre, SP, 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-2932-4792
Pedro LacerdaPrograma de pós-graduação em Ciências Farmacêuticas da UEFS, Feira de santana, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-0356-9521
Thamires Quadros FroesLaboratorio de Cristalografia de Proteínas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto - USP, Address Av. do Café, s/n - Vila Monte Alegre, SP, 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7951-7560
Maria Cristina NonatoLaboratorio de Cristalografia de Proteínas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto - USP, Address Av. do Café, s/n - Vila Monte Alegre, SP, 14040-903, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. cristy@fcfrp.usp.br.ORCID 0000-0002-4916-1505
Marcelo Santos CastilhoLaboratório de Bioinformática e Modelagem Molecular, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Av. Barão de Jeremoabo s/n Ondina, BA, 40170-115, Salvador, Brasil. castilho@ufba.br.ORCID 0000-0002-9563-5679
SUPERA Park of Innovation and Technology of Ribeirão Preto · BRUniversidade Federal da Bahia · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessment of target druggability guided by search and characterization of hot spots is a pivotal step in early stages of drug-discovery. The raw output of FTMap provides the data to perform this task, but it relies on manual intervention to properly combine different sets of consensus sites, therefore allowing identification of hot spots and evaluation of strength, shape and distance among them. Thus, the user's previous experience on the target and the software has a direct impact on how data generated by FTMap server can be explored. DRUGpy plugin was developed to overcome this limitation. By automatically assembling and scoring all possible combinations of consensus sites, DRUGpy plugin provides FTMap users a straight-forward method to identify and characterize hot spots in protein targets. DRUGpy is available in all operating systems that support PyMOL software. DRUGpy promptly identifies and characterizes pockets that are predicted by FTMap to bind druglike molecules with high-affinity (druggable sites) or low-affinity (borderline sites) and reveals how protein conformational flexibility impacts on the target's druggability. The use of DRUGpy on the analysis of trypanothione reductases (TR), a validated drug target against trypanosomatids, showcases the usefulness of the plugin, and led to the identification of a druggable pocket in the conserved dimer interface present in this class of proteins, opening new perspectives to the design of selective inhibitors.

Indexed as

Drug DiscoveryModels, MolecularSoftwareBinding SitesEnzyme InhibitorsHumansLigandsNADH, NADPH OxidoreductasesProtein BindingProtein ConformationEnzyme InhibitorsLigandsNADH, NADPH Oxidoreductasestrypanothione reductasedruggablehot spotPyMOL pluginTrypanothione reductase

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