title: Structure-based strategies for drug design and discovery.
abstract: Most drugs have been discovered in random screens or by exploiting information about macromolecular receptors. One source of this information is in the structures of critical proteins and nucleic acids. The structure-based approach to design couples this information with specialized computer programs to propose novel enzyme inhibitors and other therapeutic agents. Iterated design cycles have produced compounds now in clinical trials. The combination of molecular structure determination and computation is emerging as an important tool for drug development. These ideas will be applied to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and bacterial drug resistance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
authors.forename: I D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Kuntz
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000188:drug therapy; D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D015195:Drug Design; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents