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Reviewnpj drug discovery2025

AI meets physics in computational structure-based drug discovery for GPCRs.

Mayako Michino, Jeremie Vendome, Irina Kufareva

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Review in npj drug discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mayako MichinoSanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, New York, NY USA.
Jeremie VendomeSchrödinger, Inc., New York, NY USA.
Irina KufarevaSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA USA.

Funding

It's a tug of war: structure, consequences, and inhibition of CXCR4 and ACKR3 responses to lymphocyte chemoattractant CXCL12R01AI161880 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M, KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2021 to 2025
$3.4M
Signaling circuits that drive cell movement and ligand scavenging by chemokine receptor CCR2R01GM136202 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M, KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2020 to 2023
$1.9M
Spatiotemporally resolved architecture of G protein signaling downstream of CXCR4, the driver of lymphocyte migrationR21AI156662 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2021 to 2022
$434k
Computationally informed discovery of scavenging-sparing inhibitors of CC chemokine receptor 2R21AI149369 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2020 to 2021
$434k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI161880NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI149369NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI156662NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM136202
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a prominent class of therapeutic targets for which structure-based drug discovery (SBDD) has traditionally been challenging to apply. However, recent artificial intelligence (AI)-powered breakthroughs have opened new avenues. Here, we discuss the impact of computational models on hit discovery and lead optimization for GPCRs. We also provide best practices for generating and validating predictive models for prospective use.

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Computational chemistryDrug discoveryLead optimizationReceptor pharmacologyStructure-based drug designVirtual screening

Identifiers

PMID40621551
PMCPMC12226350

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