title: Structure-based drug design strategies in medicinal chemistry.
abstract: A broad variety of medicinal chemistry approaches can be used for the identification of hits, generation of leads, as well as to accelerate the development of high quality drug candidates. Structure-based drug design (SBDD) methods are becoming increasingly powerful, versatile and more widely used. This review summarizes current developments in structure-based virtual screening and receptor-based pharmacophores, highlighting achievements as well as challenges, along with the value of structure-based lead optimization, with emphasis on recent examples of successful applications for the identification of novel active compounds.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Química Medicinal e Computacional, Centro de Biotecnologia Molecular Estrutural, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, 13560-970 São Carlos-SP, Brazil. aandrico@if.sc.usp.br
authors.forename: Adriano D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Andricopulo
authors.forename: Lívia B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Salum
authors.forename: Donald J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Abraham
mesh_terms: D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical / Q000379:methods; D003198:Computer Simulation; D015195:Drug Design; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011485:Protein Binding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000187:drug effects; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins