ArticleJournal of medicinal chemistry2024
Occurrence of "Natural Selection" in Successful Small Molecule Drug Discovery.
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- Natural Products and Neuroregeneration: Rethinking Discovery Beyond Bioavailability Through Pseudo-Natural Product Design.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Assigning the stereochemistry of natural products by machine learning.Journal of cheminformatics · 2026Article
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- Utilizing the HiBiT System to Identify CARM1 Degraders for Targeted Cancer Therapy.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- Pseudonatural Products for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2025Review
- Chemical Evolution of Aplithianine Class of Serine/Threonine Kinase Inhibitors.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
- Exploring chemical space for "druglike" small molecules in the age of AI.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2025Review
- Identification of readily available pseudo-natural products.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Published compounds from ChEMBL version 32 are used to seek evidence for the occurrence of "natural selection" in drug discovery. Three measures of natural product (NP) character were applied, to compare time- and target-matched compounds reaching the clinic (clinical compounds in phase 1-3 development and approved drugs) with background compounds (reference compounds). Pseudo-NPs (PNPs), containing NP fragments combined in ways inaccessible by nature, are increasing over time, reaching 67% of clinical compounds first disclosed since 2010. PNPs are 54% more likely to be found in post-2008 clinical versus reference compounds. The majority of target classes show increased clinical compound NP character versus their reference compounds. Only 176 NP fragments appear in >1000 clinical compounds published since 2008, yet these make up on average 63% of the clinical compound's core scaffolds. There is untapped potential awaiting exploitation, by applying nature's building blocks─"natural intelligence"─to drug design.
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