The genesis of high-throughput structure-based drug discovery using protein crystallography.
Over the past 12 years, drugs have been developed using structure-based drug design relying upon traditional crystallographic methods. Established successes, such as the drugs designed against HIV-1 protease and neuraminidase, demonstrate the utility of a structure-based approach in the drug-discovery process. However, the approach has historically lacked throughput and reliability capabilities; these bottlenecks are being overcome by breakthroughs in high-throughput structural biology. Recent technological innovations such as submicroliter high-throughput crystallization, high-performance synchrotron beamlines and rapid binding-site analysis of de novo targets using virtual ligand screening and small molecule co-crystallization have resulted in a significant advance in structure-based drug discovery.
Kuhn
Peter
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Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.
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Keith
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Patch
Marianne G
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Stevens
Raymond C
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D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods; D015195:Drug Design; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D008024:Ligands; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
D008024:Ligands; D011506:Proteins