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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

CovPDB: a high-resolution coverage of the covalent protein-ligand interactome.

Mingjie Gao, Aurélien F A Moumbock, Ammar Qaseem, Qianqing Xu, Stefan Günther

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mingjie GaoInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Aurélien F A MoumbockInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6034-2016
Ammar QaseemInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Qianqing XuInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
Stefan GüntherInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 9, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3744-189X
University of Freiburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, the drug discovery paradigm has shifted toward compounds that covalently modify disease-associated target proteins, because they tend to possess high potency, selectivity, and duration of action. The rational design of novel targeted covalent inhibitors (TCIs) typically starts from resolved macromolecular structures of target proteins in their apo or holo forms. However, the existing TCI databases contain only a paucity of covalent protein-ligand (cP-L) complexes. Herein, we report CovPDB, the first database solely dedicated to high-resolution cocrystal structures of biologically relevant cP-L complexes, curated from the Protein Data Bank. For these curated complexes, the chemical structures and warheads of pre-reactive electrophilic ligands as well as the covalent bonding mechanisms to their target proteins were expertly manually annotated. Totally, CovPDB contains 733 proteins and 1,501 ligands, relating to 2,294 cP-L complexes, 93 reactive warheads, 14 targetable residues, and 21 covalent mechanisms. Users are provided with an intuitive and interactive web interface that allows multiple search and browsing options to explore the covalent interactome at a molecular level in order to develop novel TCIs. CovPDB is freely accessible at http://www.pharmbioinf.uni-freiburg.de/covpdb/ and its contents are available for download as flat files of various formats.

Indexed as

Databases, ProteinSoftwareBinding SitesDrug DiscoveryHumansInternetLigandsMolecular Sequence AnnotationProtein BindingProtein Conformation, alpha-HelicalProtein Conformation, beta-StrandProtein Interaction Domains and MotifsProteinsSmall Molecule LibrariesLigandsProteinsSmall Molecule Libraries

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PMID34581813
PMCPMC8728183
OpenAlexW3203077262

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