scholarly journals Chemical Biology: What is Its Role in Drug Discovery?

10.5772/28599 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Pirrie ◽  
Nicholas J.
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Chemical Biology

Experimental and Computational Approaches to Improve Binding Affinity in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 1651-1660
Author(s):  
Anuraj Nayarisseri
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Drug Design ◽  
Binding Affinity ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Structure Based Drug Design ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
Drug Designing ◽  
Traditional Drug ◽  
Computer Based

Drug discovery is one of the most complicated processes and establishment of a single drug may require multidisciplinary attempts to design efficient and commercially viable drugs. The main purpose of drug design is to identify a chemical compound or inhibitor that can bind to an active site of a specific cavity on a target protein. The traditional drug design methods involved various experimental based approaches including random screening of chemicals found in nature or can be synthesized directly in chemical laboratories. Except for the long cycle design and time, high cost is also the major issue of concern. Modernized computer-based algorithm including structure-based drug design has accelerated the drug design and discovery process adequately. Surprisingly from the past decade remarkable progress has been made concerned with all area of drug design and discovery. CADD (Computer Aided Drug Designing) based tools shorten the conventional cycle size and also generate chemically more stable and worthy compounds and hence reduce the drug discovery cost. This special edition of editorial comprises the combination of seven research and review articles set emphasis especially on the computational approaches along with the experimental approaches using a chemical synthesizing for the binding affinity in chemical biology and discovery as a salient used in de-novo drug designing. This set of articles exfoliates the role that systems biology and the evaluation of ligand affinity in drug design and discovery for the future.

Syntheses of Spiro(2-oxopyrrolidinyl)-5,4′-pyrazolones via Organocatalyzed Michael/Ammonolysis Cascade Reaction of 4-Aminopyrazolones and α,β-Unsaturated Acyl Phosphates

Synlett ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Chen ◽  
You-Fen Li ◽  
Zheng-Jun Chen ◽  
Wen-Ya Jiao ◽  
Zhi-Jiao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Cascade Reaction ◽  
Unsaturated Acyl

AbstractThe efficient organocatalyzed Michael/ammonolysis cascade reaction of N-protected 4-aminopyrazolones and α,β-unsaturated acyl phosphates has been developed. This tactic gives rise to architecturally multifarious spiro(2-oxopyrrolidinyl)-5,4′-pyrazolones in good productiveness (up to 88% yield) and with moderate to good diastereoselectivities (up to 20:1 dr). These novel hybrid heterocycles would be promising candidates for drug-discovery programs and chemical biology.

scholarly journals A Free Web-Based Protocol to Assist Structure-Based Virtual Screening Experiments

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 4648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Lagarde ◽  
Elodie Goldwaser ◽  
Tania Pencheva ◽  
Dessislava Jereva ◽  
Ilza Pajeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Virtual Screening ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Molecular Mechanics ◽  
In Silico ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
In Silico Screening ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Screening Experiments ◽  
The Web

Chemical biology and drug discovery are complex and costly processes. In silico screening approaches play a key role in the identification and optimization of original bioactive molecules and increase the performance of modern chemical biology and drug discovery endeavors. Here, we describe a free web-based protocol dedicated to small-molecule virtual screening that includes three major steps: ADME-Tox filtering (via the web service FAF-Drugs4), docking-based virtual screening (via the web service MTiOpenScreen), and molecular mechanics optimization (via the web service AMMOS2 [Automatic Molecular Mechanics Optimization for in silico Screening]). The online tools FAF-Drugs4, MTiOpenScreen, and AMMOS2 are implemented in the freely accessible RPBS (Ressource Parisienne en Bioinformatique Structurale) platform. The proposed protocol allows users to screen thousands of small molecules and to download the top 1500 docked molecules that can be further processed online. Users can then decide to purchase a small list of compounds for in vitro validation. To demonstrate the potential of this online-based protocol, we performed virtual screening experiments of 4574 approved drugs against three cancer targets. The results were analyzed in the light of published drugs that have already been repositioned on these targets. We show that our protocol is able to identify active drugs within the top-ranked compounds. The web-based protocol is user-friendly and can successfully guide the identification of new promising molecules for chemical biology and drug discovery purposes.

scholarly journals Targeting secondary protein complexes in drug discovery: studying the druggability and chemical biology of the HSP70/BAG1 complex

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (37) ◽  
pp. 5167-5170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay E. Evans ◽  
Keith Jones ◽  
Matthew D. Cheeseman
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Protein Complexes

A non-nucleotide FP-probe was designed to study the mechanism of action and druggability of the secondary HSP70/BAG1 complex.

scholarly journals HybridMolDB: A Manually Curated Database Dedicated to Hybrid Molecules for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
pp. 4063-4069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yecheng Li ◽  
Chongze Zhao ◽  
Jianhua Zhang ◽  
Shiyang Zhai ◽  
Boyan Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Hybrid Molecules

scholarly journals Designing Chimeric Molecules for Drug Discovery by Leveraging Chemical Biology

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 1908-1928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Borsari ◽  
Darci J. Trader ◽  
Annalisa Tait ◽  
Maria P. Costi
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Chimeric Molecules
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