Hidden allosteric sites and De-Novo drug design

INTRODUCTION: Hidden allosteric sites are not visible in apo-crystal structures, but they may be visible in holo-structures when a certain ligand binds and maintains the ligand intended conformation. Several computational and experimental techniques have been used to investigate these hidden sites but identifying them remains a challenge.

AREAS COVERED: This review provides a summary of the many theoretical approaches for predicting hidden allosteric sites in disease-related proteins. Furthermore, promising cases have been thoroughly examined to reveal the hidden allosteric site and its modulator.

EXPERT OPINION: In the recent past, with the development in scientific techniques and bioinformatics tools, the number of drug targets for complex human diseases has significantly increased but unfortunately most of these targets are undruggable due to several reasons. Alternative strategies such as finding cryptic (hidden) allosteric sites are an attractive approach for exploitation of the discovery of new targets. These hidden sites are difficult to recognize compared to allosteric sites, mainly due to a lack of visibility in the crystal structure. In our opinion, after many years of development, MD simulations are finally becoming successful for obtaining a detailed molecular description of drug-target interaction.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Expert opinion on drug discovery - 17(2022), 3 vom: 21. März, Seite 283-295

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rehman, Ashfaq Ur [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Shaoyong [VerfasserIn]
Khan, Abdul Aziz [VerfasserIn]
Khurshid, Beenish [VerfasserIn]
Rasheed, Salman [VerfasserIn]
Wadood, Abdul [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jian [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Apo/holo-crystal
Enhanced sampling
Hidden allosteric site
Journal Article
Ligands
Markov state models
Mixed-solvent
Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.04.2022

Date Revised 02.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/17460441.2022.2017876

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM334696461