Impacto de la movilidad en el diseño de fármacos basado en la estructura para los MMP

Franklin J Moy1, Pranab K Chanda, James Chen

  • 1Department of Biological Chemistry Wyeth Research, 87 Cambridge Park Dr., Massachusetts 02140, USA.

Resumen

El diseño de fármacos a menudo ignora la dinámica de las proteínas. Para las metaloproteinasas matriciales (MMP), la movilidad del sitio activo explica por qué el compuesto 1 se une inesperadamente al MMP-1 con alta afinidad, desafiando las predicciones de la estructura estática.

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