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Biosensor-based High Throughput Biopanning and Bioinformatics Analysis Strategy for the Global Validation of Drug-protein Interactions
Published on: December 1, 2020
GBPM: GRID-based pharmacophore model: concept and application studies to protein-protein recognition
Francesco Ortuso1, Thierry Langer, Stefano Alcaro
1Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacobiologiche Università di Catanzaro 'Magna Graecia' Complesso Ninì Barbieri I-88021, Roccelletta di Borgia (CZ), Italy.
Motivation:
Automatic procedures to obtain pharmacophore models from experimentally determined macromolecular complexes can help in the drug discovery process, especially when protein-protein recognition plays an important biological role.
Results:
The GRID-based pharmacophore model (GBPM) is a fully objective method for defining most relevant interaction areas in complexes deriving pharmacophore models from three-dimensional (3D) molecular structure information. It is based on logical and clustering operations with 3D maps computed by the GRID program on structurally known molecular complexes. In this manuscript we describe the concept and discuss application examples regarding protein-protein recognition. In particular two complexes selected in the Protein Data Bank have been tested to evaluate the GBPM capability to identify interaction areas. The results obtained show the capabilities of this new bioinformatic method.
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