ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2025
Identification of New Human P2X7 Antagonists Using Ligand- and Structure-Based Virtual Screening.
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- Purinergic signaling in osteoarthritis: Mechanistic insights into pathogenesis and therapeutic targeting.Genes & diseases · 2026Review
- P2X7 receptor: An emerging therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia (Review).International journal of oncology · 2026Review
- NewLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Positive allosteric modulator activity of ginsenosides is restricted to P2X7 and P2X4 receptors.Purinergic signalling · 2026Article
- Methodological guidelines for P2X receptor assays and data interpretation.Cell death & disease · 2026Review
- Modeling the P2X7 receptor: a comparative analysis of conventional methods and AlphaFold.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
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Abstract
P2X7 receptors, a subtype of ATP-gated cation channel, have gained attention due to their involvement in inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases, chronic pain, and cancer. However, despite extensive medicinal chemistry efforts, no P2X7 antagonists have reached clinical approval due to suboptimal pharmacokinetic properties, poor selectivity, and insufficient efficacy in comparison to placebo controls. To address these challenges, we employed a virtual screening workflow integrating ligand-based and structure-based approaches to identify novel P2X7 allosteric antagonists. A 3D pharmacophore model derived from three known P2X7 antagonists (A740003, A804598, and JNJ47965567) was used to filter four libraries of commercially available compounds (approximately 10,000,000 total). These compounds were docked into a human P2X7 homology model and ranked by four distinct scoring functions. Eleven compounds were selected based on drug-like properties and key interactions with residues lining the target pocket. Among those, six compounds inhibited P2X7 activation in a YO-PRO 1 dye uptake assay (30 μM), while just two of those (
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