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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2024

Exploration of Cryptic Pockets Using Enhanced Sampling Along Normal Modes: A Case Study of KRAS

Neha Vithani, She Zhang, Jeffrey P Thompson, Lara A Patel, Alex Demidov, Junchao Xia, Alexander Balaeff, Ahmet Mentes, Yelena A Arnautova, Anna Kohlmann and 4 more

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Neha VithaniOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4375-8762
She ZhangOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9265-4498
Jeffrey P ThompsonOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3134-9451
Lara A PatelOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.
Alex DemidovOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.
Junchao XiaOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.
Alexander BalaeffBlack Diamond Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Ahmet MentesBlack Diamond Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Yelena A ArnautovaBlack Diamond Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
Anna KohlmannBlack Diamond Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States.
J David LawsonMirati Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, California 92121, United States.
Anthony NichollsOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.
A Geoffrey SkillmanOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.
David N LeBardOpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0979-800X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identification of cryptic pockets has the potential to open new therapeutic opportunities by discovering ligand binding sites that remain hidden in static apo structures of a target protein. Moreover, allosteric cryptic pockets can become valuable for designing target-selective ligands when the natural ligand binding sites are conserved in variants of a protein. For example, before an allosteric cryptic pocket was discovered, KRAS was considered undruggable due to its smooth surface and conservation of the GDP/GTP binding pocket across the wild type and oncogenic isoforms. Recent identification of the Switch-II cryptic pocket in the KRAS

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)Binding SitesHumansLigandsMutationProtein ConformationKRAS protein, humanLigandsProto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)

Identifiers

PMID39419500
PMCPMC11558672

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