Uso de MCSS para diseñar pequeñas bibliotecas específicas: aplicación a los ligandos de picornavirus

D Joseph-McCarthy1, S K Tsang, D J Filman

  • 1Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Resumen

Los métodos computacionales diseñaron con éxito ligandos antipicornaviales que se unen a la cápside. Este estudio valida el diseño de fármacos basado en la estructura, destacando la importancia de la flexibilidad de las proteínas en el modelado computacional para terapias antivirales.

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