title: Latest developments in crystallography and structure-based design of protein kinase inhibitors as drug candidates.
abstract: Protein kinases have been identified as being implicated in many diseases, and the launch of the anti-cancer Bcr/Abl-kinase inhibitor Glivec has been a major advance in validating protein kinases as 'druggable' targets. High-resolution data exists for many classes of protein kinases and, in some cases, these structures are co-complexed with an inhibitor and/or substrate mimic. Coupled with the increasing reliability of computational predictions, structure-based design is now playing an increasingly important role in the discovery and optimisation of novel, potent and selective protein kinase inhibitors.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D003461:Crystallography; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010600:Pharmacology / Q000639:trends*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors; D011494:Protein Kinases