ArticleBiomacromolecules2022
Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement of Prefibrillar Sickle Hemoglobin Oligomers as a Platform for Drug Discovery in Sickle Cell Disease.
Article in Biomacromolecules, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Protein aggregation and neurodegenerative disease: Structural outlook for the novel therapeutics.Proteins · 2025Review
- Sticking together: Polymerization of sickle hemoglobin drives the multiscale pathophysiology of sickle cell disease.Biophysics reviews · 2025Review
- Voxelotor does not inhibit sickle hemoglobin fiber formation upon complete deoxygenation.Biophysical journal · 2023Article
- Phenotypic screening of the ReFRAME drug repurposing library to discover new drugs for treating sickle cell disease.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
The molecular origin of sickle cell disease (SCD) has been known since 1949, but treatments remain limited. We present the first high-throughput screening (HTS) platform for discovering small molecules that directly inhibit sickle hemoglobin (HbS) oligomerization and improve blood flow, potentially overcoming a long-standing bottleneck in SCD drug discovery. We show that at concentrations far below the threshold for nucleation and rapid polymerization, deoxygenated HbS forms small assemblies of multiple α
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