Month: August 2017

Computationally-guided optimization of small-molecule inhibitors of the Aurora A kinase–TPX2 protein–protein interaction

Daniel J. Cole, Matej Janecek, Jamie E. Stokes, Maxim Rossmann, John C. Faver, Grahame J. McKenzie, Ashok R. Venkitaraman, Marko Hyvönen, David R. Spring, David J. Huggins and William L. Jorgensen

Chemical Communications 53, 9372-9375 (2017)
DOI 10.1039/C7CC05379G
Pubmed: 28787041

PDB coordinates: 5OBR (3D view)

Abstract

Free energy perturbation theory, in combination with enhanced sampling of protein–ligand binding modes, is evaluated in the context of fragment-based drug design, and used to design two new small-molecule inhibitors of the Aurora A kinase–TPX2 protein–protein interaction.

Posted by Marko in Publications, 0 comments