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Ittetsu Kobayashi1, Ryosuke Takeda1, Rie Suzuki1
1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku-cho, Toyohashi, Aichi, 441-8580, Japan.
Abstract:
The Androgen Receptor (AR) is a family of nuclear receptor proteins and a ligand-activated transcription factor. Since its abnormal activation can cause the progression of prostate cancer, numerous types of antagonists against AR have been developed as promising agents for treating prostate cancers. We here investigated the specific interactions between AR and several types of non-steroid agents at an electronic level, using ab initio molecular simulations based on molecular mechanics and ab initio fragment molecular orbital (FMO) methods From the results obtained by FMO, we proposed novel agents as potent ligands against AR and investigated the binding properties between AR and these agents to confirm that some of them can bind more strongly with AR than the existing non-steroid agents and can be strongly effective ligands against AR.
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